\u00a0Like Ginny, I noticed that Scholes recommends that smart English teachers suppress their natural inclination to show off for their students.\u00a0 Too bad he couldn’t resist.\u00a0 He sounded like he agreed in principle with Blau, that an English teacher’s role was to enable students to read and interpret a text themselves, but in practice, he gave me the feeling that interpreting texts is a mysterious power held by genius English teachers. \u00a0Of interpreting texts, he says “there is an element of intuition . . . that cannot be reduced to formulas”31).\u00a0 That said, he presents the formula for interpreting a text:\u00a0 Step 1.\u00a0 Look for repetitions and oppositions in the text.\u00a0 Sounds simple enough, but the cultural and geographic information he supplies, as well as some not-so-obvious oppositions he points out, put him in the position of telling the students the correct interpretation of the text.\u00a0 He says, “In leading a class from reading to interpretation, I would try to uncover the implications of the opposition by exploring all the relationships and differences that link the story’s two main places and episodes” (33).\u00a0 He asks questions and answers them himself.\u00a0 His text gives no indication that his students were coming up with the conclusions he makes. Step 2. Determine what these oppositions represent.\u00a0 About this step he says students must be able to make connection between text and culture based on knowledge, and then teaches the class the cultural knowledge they will need to correctly interpret the text.\u00a0 Sounds like a show off to me.\u00a0 I do not question his brilliance.\u00a0 I just don’t think being in one of his classes would make me feel empowered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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