As you read, ask yourself: do all readers get the same meaning out of a book?
QUESTION 1 (POLL...
English, 21.04.2020 02:09 innocentman69
As you read, ask yourself: do all readers get the same meaning out of a book?
QUESTION 1 (POLL)
Where does the deeper meaning in stories and poems come from?
SELECT AN ANSWER
the author
the reader
the teacher
a mix of all three (author, reader, teacher)
Stories and poems do not have deeper meaning; what it says is what it means.
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Do authors really put deeper meaning into poems and stories â or do readers make it up?
Do authors really put deeper meaning into poems and stories â or do readers make it up? Jordan, 14, Indianapolis, Indiana
One of my favorite novels is Charlotteâs Web, the famous story of a friendship between a pig and a spider.
I often talk about this novel with my students studying childrenâs literature. At some point, someone always asks about âdeeper meaning.â Is it really a story of, say, the cycle of death and rebirth? Or the importance of friendship? Or the significance of writing?
Or is it just a story of life in the barn, with talking animals?
In a way, it doesnât matter. Because every writer is also a reader, and that means that whatever a writer puts into a story probably came from somewhere else, whether itâs another story, or a poem, or their own life experience.
And readers, too, will bring their own experience â of other stories, other poems and life â and that will direct their interpretation of what they absorb. We can see one example of this if we look at the spider in Charlotteâs Web.
QUESTION 2 DOK 2 STANDARD COMPREND F
According to the author, what is ONE important thing readers need to remember about writers?
SELECT AN ANSWER
Writers are also readers, so they bring their reading and experiences into their writing.
Writers, especially poets, want readers to be confused.
Deeper meaning is always left for the reader to construct.
All writers include deeper meaning in all their work.
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The meaning of character
That spider, Charlotte, is based on a real spider. We know this because E. B. White drew pictures of spiders, studied them and made sure to be as accurate as he could when he wrote about them.
Charlotteâs Web by E. B. White. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY
But, to a reader she may also represent Arachne, the talented weaver who challenged the goddess Athena and was changed into a spider for her pride. Or she may be the ânoiseless patient spiderâ of Walt Whitmanâs poem, who flings out thread-like filaments as the poet flings out words.
She may also be the spider who weaves âthe silken tentâ of Robert Frostâs poem. Maybe weâll think about how the spider, like a human storyteller, generates something seemingly out of nothing, which makes her web miraculous.
Each of these spiders symbolizes different things. When we read about her, then, we may think of all those other spiders. Or we may just think about the spider we saw on our own front porch that morning, weaving her own web.
As the writer Philip Pullman said, âThe meaning of a story emerges in the meeting between the words on the page and the thoughts in the readerâs mind.â
QUESTION 3 DOK 2 STANDARD COMPREND F
Think about your experiences and feelings about spiders. How might they affect your reading of a story about a spider? Use at least one example from the text to support your response.
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The reader is in charge
What Pullman is suggesting, then, is that itâs up to readers to make the meaning they want out of the stories they hear and the books they read.
Itâs a powerful statement: We are in charge.
This doesnât mean that anything goes. Meanings come from context, from convention, from older stories and from previous usage. But itâs up to us to interpret what we read and to make the case for how weâre doing it.
Or, as the novelist John Green writes of his books, âThey belong to their readers now, which is a great thing â because the books are more powerful in the hands of my readers than they could ever be in my hands.â
What we do with the books we read matters, Green tells us. Itâs up to us to make the meaning and up to us to decide what to do with that meaning once weâve made it.
QUESTION 4 DOK 3 STANDARD RS SUMMARIZE
Do all readers get the same meaning out of a book? Use examples from the text to support your response.
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