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On your packet, write down what you remember from “Reader
Response Criticism.” (This is a review from earlier in the year)
Reader Response Criticism
What I remember…
Write this down…
Reader Response Criticism
What I remember…
Write this down…
• The reader’s response is what counts. We cannot
know for sure what an author intended, and the text
itself is meaningless unless a reader responds.
• Readers actively create (not discover) meaning in texts
that may be personal, or shared with other members
of a community.
• We share our responses because it may enrich another
reader’s response.
Objectives
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Today I will learn…
How to view and annotate a text with a specific literary lens.
How to verbally express my ideas and respond respectfully to others.
I will know I have learned this when…
I am able to use a Feminist Lens to analyze a given text.
I am able to use my literary annotations to participate in productive,
respectful group discussions.
Vocabulary
• Feminist: someone who believes that women should have equal
rights, opportunities, and experiences
• Feminine: a set of cultural characteristics given by the society
• Patriarchy: a system of society or government in which the father
or eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced through
the male line
• Misogyny: dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against
women
• Oppression: prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control
What is Feminist Criticism?
1. Feminist criticism is the ways in which literature (and other
cultural productions) reinforce or undermine the economic,
political, social, and psychological oppression of women.
2. This school of theory looks at how aspects of our culture are
inherently patriarchal (male dominated). This misogyny, can
extend into diverse areas of our culture.
What is it?
3. Identify the qualities of gender and how
characters are portrayed as individuals and/or
within groups.
4. Consider whether the text promotes or
undermines stereotypes.
5. Imagine how the text might be read by a certain
type of reader; or how a text might have been
neglected by a certain type of reader.
Questions to ask
• How is the (power) relationship between men and women portrayed?
• What does the work reveal about the operations (economically, politically,
socially, or psychologically) of patriarchy?
• What does the work say about women's creativity?
• In the world of this book/story, what does it mean to be female?
• What does the work imply about the possibilities of women joining
together to resist patriarchy?
ANNOTATING: WHAT DO WE
ANNOTATE FOR?
• Connections you make with the text in the margins to other texts, movies, TV,
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or personal experiences.
Predictions you make about the texts, the people, or how this may affect future
events.
Inferences you add to the text. Thoughts you have about the text.
Identifications of main and supporting ideas: What's important information
that should not be overlooked?
Symbols: ! ? Sometimes just a symbol in the margin does the trick.
Vocabulary: Key terms, people, places.
SHORT STORIES
A Short Story will include:
• setting details woven into the text
• development of at least one character through the character’s words, thoughts,
and actions and through the words of other characters and/or the writer
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a problem/conflict which is developed as the story progresses
a resolution of that problem/conflict
a conclusion
snapshots (things for the reader to visualize)
dialogue (optional)
• As a class we will watch a 3 minute clip of Beauty and
The Beast. While watching- analyze the clip using the
Feminist Lens.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovhdfa1sUoM
• Scratch Goldilocks and The Three Bears and write,
“Beauty and The Beast”
Small Group
Activity
Read your assigned children’s story.
While reading it, focus on the Feminist
perspective by following the “How
To” and asking yourself and your
group members the “Questions.”
***Be prepared to share out
Short Story
Now, choose one of the short stories
to read and annotate independently.
While reading your chosen story, focus
on the Feminist perspective by
following the “How To” and asking
yourself and your group members the
“Questions.”
Group Discussion
At this time, get together with the other students in the room that read the
same short story. Compare ideas, findings, and conclusions you drew from
utilizing the Feminist Criticism.
You will present to the class…
1. A summary of the short story
2. Your findings from using the Feminist Lens
Review Objectives
Today I will learn…
How to view a text with a specific
literary lens.
How to verbally express my ideas
and respond respectfully to others.
I will know I have learned this
when…
I am able to use a Feminist Lens to
analyze a given text.
I am able to use my literary
annotations to participate in
productive, respectful group
discussions.
Homework: Bucket list (2nd set)