LART 5004 - Analyzing Literature through Lenses

2 Credit Hours

Are you looking for ways to have your students annotate, analyze, and discuss literature with a purpose? This workshop will review various aspects of Literary Theory and will help teachers show students how to use this in the form of Literary Lenses in the classroom. These lenses will give students a direct focus on what they need to look for when they are reading. Teachers will be applying their knowledge in this workshop by using these lenses with stories they already teach in their classes. Some of the lenses teachers will be exposed to include the Reader Response, Gender, Social Class, Biographical, Psychological, and Ecological and Mythological/Archetypal lenses. This workshop is suitable for educators teaching grade levels 7-12.