Title of the story:
I. Group discussion
1. On page 34, Delia mentioned that she would teach for the love of Art? What was Joe thinking when he heard Delia’s words?
2. If you can have a conversation with one of the characters in the story? Whom do you want to talk with? Please write down you conversation.
3. From the story we know that Delia and Joe really loved each other so much that they even sacrificed themselves for the good of the other. How long can people sacrifice themselves for others? Why?
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If you were Delia, would you do the same thing for Joe? Or if you were Joe, would you do the same thing for Delia? Why?5. What kind of person are you willing to sacrifice yourself for? What will you do for him or her?
6. Which part of the story you find very interesting or very touching? Why?
II. Role Play
What will happen to Joe and Delia five or ten years later? Please continue the story.
You may add some characters to your story.
Steps to follow
(1) Choose a scene.
(2) Choose the characters.
(3) Write the script.
(4) Rehearse the play.
(5) Dramatize of the play.
(6) Raise questions and answer them.
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Appendix D-5
During-Class Worksheet (5) --- The Jeweler’s Wife I. Group discussion
1. Why did the woman in black clothes ask Mr. Keeling to help “her” investigate Mr.
Robbins?
2. Why did Mr. Keeling so easily agree to help the woman in black clothes investigate Mr. Robbins?
3. If you were Mr. Keeling, what would you do when you see Mr. Robbins meeting the same woman almost every day and have dinner with her?
4. What are the personal traits of those people who are easily deceived to do something they think great or meaningful? Why?
5. What do you think Mr. Keeling would do after he knew the truth and left Houston?
6. Which part of the story you find very interesting? Why?
II. Role Play.
Each group chooses a scene in the story and plays it out. Use your imagination to add characters and plot. After each group has dramatized their play, other groups are to ask them questions about their play.
(1) Choose a scene.
(2) Add characters or plot.
(3) Write the script.
(4) Rehearse the play.
(5) Dramatize the play.
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Appendix D-6
During-Class Worksheet (6) --- The Car Is Waiting I. Group discussion
1. Why didn’t the young woman like Mr. Parkenstacker call her “little flower”?
2. Why didn’t the young woman tell Mr. Parkenstacker her name?
3. On page 56, the young woman mentioned, “My name and my face are well known.
My picture is often in newspapers and magazines…I am not an ordinary person…”
Are these words true? Why? Where do these words come from?
4. On page 57, the young woman mentioned, “Sometimes, the sound of the ice in my champagne glass tires me!” What does this statement show?
5. When the young woman left the park, she stopped by the white car and looked at it for a few moments before she ran across the street. What was she thinking when she was looking at the car?
6. If the young woman knew that Mr. Parkenstacker was rich, would she love him?
Why?
II. Debate
The topic for the debate: I will marry for love rather than for money.
III. Role Play.
Each group chooses a scene in the story and plays it out. Use your imagination to add characters and plot. After each group has dramatized their play, other groups are to ask them questions about their play.
(1) Choose a scene.
(2) Add characters and plot.
(3) Write the script.
(4) Rehearse the play.
(5) Dramatize the play.
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Appendix E-1
Response Journal (1) --- A Note about the Author and the Stories Date: __________ Name: ___________ Class: _____ No: _______
Title of the story:
I. Description of different stage of O. Henry. Please write down three to five words to describe different stages of O. Henry.
1. When he was 15 years old.
2. When he got married in 1887.
3. When he went away from the police and stayed in Central America.
4. The three years when he was in prison.
5. When he earned a lot of money and spent it on alcohol.
II. Reflection after reading “A Note about the Author” and “A Note about These Stories”.
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Appendix E-2
Response Journal (2) ---A Good Burglar
Date: __________ Name: ___________ Class: _____ No: _______
Title of the story:
I. Description of characters:
Write down three words which you feel best describe the following characters.
1. Jimmy Valentine 2. Ben price
3. Mike Dolan 4. Annabel Adams 5. Mr. Adams
II. The character I like most and the reason why I like it.
The character I like most is:
Reason(s):
III. If you can have a conversation with one of the characters, whom do you want to talk to? Please write down your conversation.
The person I want to talk to is: __________________
Our conversation:
IV. Do you have any experience of stealing things? If yes, please share your
experience and the reason(s) why you did that. You may also share experience of your friends or family who has stolen things.
_________________________________________________________________
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______________________________________________________________.
p.s. If there is not enough space, please write down you answer at the back.
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Appendix E-3
Response Journal (3) --- The Last Leaf
Date: __________ Name: ___________ Class: _____ No: _______
Title of the story:
I. Everyone has some good friends, and I believe you also have some. What are the traits of a good friend?
Traits of a good friend Reasons
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II. The character I like most and the reason why I like it.
The character I like most is:
Reason(s):
III. If you can have a conversation with one of the characters, whom do you want to talk to? Please write down your conversation.
The person I want to talk to is: __________________
Our conversation:
IV. Most people have the experience of helping a friend or being helped by a friend? Please share your precious experience and feelings of helping a friend or being helped by (a) friend(s).
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Appendix E-4
Response Journal (4) --- A Lesson in Love
Date: __________ Name: ___________ Class: _____ No: _______
Title of the story:
I. In the story, Joe and Delia fell in love because both of them loved Art? What are the personal traits of the personal that you will fall in love with? Why?
Personal traits of my ideal lover
Reasons
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
II. The character I like most in the story and the reason why I like him/her.
The character I like most is:
Reason(s):
III. If one day you get married, what do you want your marriage life to be?
IV. If one day your husband fail in his work or business and becomes bankrupt and very depressed, what will you do? Why would you do that?
V. Things I want to say after reading the story.
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Appendix E-5
Response Journal (5) --- The Jeweler’s Wife
Date: __________ Name: ___________ Class: _____ No: _______
Title of the story:
I. The character I like most and the reason why I like it.
The character I like most is:
Reason(s):
II. If you can have a conversation with one of the characters, whom do you want to talk to? Please write down your conversation.
The person I want to talk to is: __________________
Our conversation:
III. Do you have the experience of being deceived by someone? Please share your experience and feelings? You can also share your friends’ experience.
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
________________________________________________-________.
IV. Things I want to say after reading the story.
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________.
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Appendix E-6
Response Journal (6) --- The Car Is Waiting
Date: __________ Name: ___________ Class: _____ No: _______
Title of the story:
1. Nowadays, many young people think that if they can marry someone rich, they can save ten years’ hard work (少奮鬥十年). What is your opinion?
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________.
2. Do you have the experience of loving someone whom you later think they are not worth falling in love with? Please share your experience or the experience of someone you know.
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________.
3. Things I want to say after reading the story.
__________________________________________________________________
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Appendix F-1
A Post-Instructional Questionnaire on Students’ Perception of Reader Response Approach
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Appendix F-2
A Post-Instructional Questionnaire on Students’ Perception of Reader Response Approach
My dear students,
Thank you for participating in the instructional activities using reader response approach. This questionnaire aims to investigate your opinions of using this approach in teaching literary works. After reading each question, please check your answer in one of the options: “strongly agree,” “agree,” “neutral,” “disagree” and “strongly disagree.”
Please answer the questions honestly, and the results will not be counted in the academic performance. Thank you for your cooperation.
National Taiwan Normal University Advisor: Dr. Chiou-lan Chern Graduate: Hung-ying Chou
Class: Name: No:
Strongly agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree
1 I think the selected reading The Last leaf and Other Stories is very interesting.
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2 I think English literary works are very interesting. After reading this book, I would like to read more books like this one.
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3 I think reading English literary works increases my interest in reading English books.
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4 I think reading English literary works enables me to better understand western culture.
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5 I think reading English literary works can promote my English language competence
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6 I think English literary works are very informative. They make me reflect on something I have never thought of before, and develop personal growth.
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7 I think English literary works make me discover that English is not as boring as I thought.
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Strongly agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree
8 I like the reader response tasks and activities in the literature instruction and do my best to fulfill my teacher’s requirement.
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9 Reading the stories in advance and doing the pre-class worksheets is helpful for the class activities.
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10 I like the role play activities. ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐
11 I become more involved in the storylines when watching my classmates dramatize the stories.
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12 The role play helps me understand a certain character from a different viewpoint.
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13 The role play helps me express my interpretation of the stories. ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ 14 The role play activities help me know that different readers
interpret the same stories differently.
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15 I like the discussion activities. ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐
16 I think I can better understand the stories by sharing and discussing the storylines with others.
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17 I realize that different readers have different interpretations of the same stories from the group discussion and class discussion.
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18 I think participating in group discussion and class discussion helps me think more deeply of different questions.
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19 In group discussion, I reconsider my opinions when my opinions are different from those of others.
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20 I think I like to figure out the answer with my group members more than doing it myself.
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21 Although it takes me much time to finish the response journals, I like writing down my reflection on the response journal.
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22 I thinking the questions in response journals help me rethink about different questions about life.
23 I think the questions in the response journal help me make reader’s response and understand that my interpretation of the stories may change.
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Strongly agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree
24 I think the freewriting part in the response journal enables me to explore and generalize my opinions.
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25 I think the teacher’s feedback in the response journal encourages me to express different viewpoints
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26 I think reader response approach instruction helps me have better relationship with my classmates.
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27 I think in the reader response tasks and activities, the atmosphere of discussion and peer interaction is quite good.
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28 I think I am more active in the reader response activities than I am in the traditional explanatory teaching methods.
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29 I think reader response approach is more interesting than the traditional grammar translation and vocabulary teaching method.
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30 My interest in English literary works increases with the reader response approach instruction.
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31 My listening ability becomes better through the reader response activities.
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32 My speaking ability becomes better through the reader response activities
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33 My reading ability becomes better through the reader response activities.
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34 My writing ability becomes better through the reader response activities.
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35 Overall, my English ability becomes better through the reader response activities.
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Part II
1. What do you attain most from the literature instruction using reader response approach? (Please write down the order of your opinions, with 1 being what you attain most, and 6 being the least.)
☐a. Learn more new words.
☐b. Learn more grammar.
☐c. Do pleasure reading.
☐d. Get inspiration for of my life.
☐e. Have a better understanding of English literature.
☐f. Others
2. Which activity do you like most when using the reader response approach to teach young adult literature? Why?
☐a. The pre-class worksheet. 3. In participating in the reader response approach instruction, what I gain most is
4. The difficulties and problems that I encounter in the reader response approach
instruction.
5. My suggestions to the reader response approach instruction.
P.S. If there is not enough space, please write down your opinions at the back.