Use cultural data sets from students' everyday worlds as a gateway to literary interpretation¶

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Description¶

Following Lee, the module introduced symbolism through texts from the everyday world, such as images of traditional symbols and pop culture songs with lyrics. The article explains that "cultural data sets manifest the rhetorical problem that students will be encountering in literary texts but do so in texts where students routinely use the types of thinking and reasoning processes that they need to employ when working with literary texts." Discussion focuses metacognitively on how you know, making rules of notice explicit.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Teacher questioning that presses students to articulate how they know something is symbolic
• Worksheets recording symbols, associations, and meanings

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• adolescent students new to interpretive stances toward texts

Target Learning Goals¶

• recognizing symbols and articulating criteria for symbolism

Related Strategies¶

• Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Teresa Sosa, Allison H. Hall, and Susan R. Goldman; Carol D. Lee. (2015). Developing Symbolic Interpretation Through Literary Argumentation. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508406.2015.1124040