Ch 4: How Stories Work of Jago's text really gave me further insight into what kind of books to choose for my classroom. Jago gave me how to teach story structure and use literary devices. Jago not only does this, but she showed me how to let my students come up with the story's meaning by themselves, rather than me showing them.
I like how Jago wants her students to learn how to disect stories, rather than the teacher doing all the work for them. Her quote "I want students to see that identifying literary elemnets can serve as guidposts to understanding" (Jago 61). Another quote I liked was "They [students] may not be able to read this book [The Call of the Wild by Jack London] without your help, but with critical attention to the elements of literature, students can enter London's fictional world" (Jago 65). I learned from these quotes the importance of the elements of literature. I need to make sure that I impart to my students the elements of literature and how to use the elements to understand literature.
"The language of literature helps readers express what we see in what we read" (Jago 68) is, what I believe, a great quote. Knowing terms, such as simile, alliteration, and irony help students delve into a stories meaning. I want to make sure that my students understand all the literary terms found on pages 69 - 71 of Jago's text so they can start to understand more complex literature.
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I agree with you. I like how Jago shows us in her text how to use literary devices to get students involved without us teachers holding their hands every step of the way. I think students should learn to dissect a story by themselves because then they can appreciate whether or not they truly like a story or not. I think this is part of the reason why students say they hate a text so much; they never learn to dissect a story.
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