Deck 11: Appendix: Literature Awards and Booklists

Question 1

A theory frames how a reader investigates literary assumptions, principles, and concepts.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Theories influencing instructional decisions involve conscious decisions only.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The New Critics called both readers' personal interpretation and authors' intentions as fallacies.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Rosenblatt's reader response theory claims that a literary work exists without the reader finding meaning from words and images.

Question 5

Within the reader response theory, literary terminology is taught when needed.

Question 6

At the heart of critical literacy is a perspective that encourages questioning of beliefs about social practices involved in literacy use.

Question 7

A critical stance discourages students from analyzing choices made in creating texts.

Question 8

Students gain social consciousness by questioning their world and asking who has power and who benefits from that power.

Question 9

When students make films, write and perform music, and create artistic renderings, this can serve as countertexts in which students examine critical issues.

Question 10

Literary theories are confined to a time period, a specific scholar, or an academic setting.

Question 11

The perspective that literature is to be studied objectively is related to which theory?

A) New criticism theory
B) Reader response theory
C) Efferent theory
D) Critical literacy theory

Question 12

Suggested texts recommended by the Common Core Standards strongly reflect which of the following theories?

A) Critical literacy theory
B) Aesthetic theory
C) Reader response theory
D) New criticism theory

Question 13

Who was the noted reader response theorist who wrote Literature as Exploration?

A) Probst
B) Rosenblatt
C) Friere
D) Hirsch

Question 14

Literacy routines that include literature circles, book clubs, and reader workshop reflect which theory?

A) Critical literacy theory
B) New criticism theory
C) Efferent theory
D) Reader response theory

Question 15

Literacy routines that include inquiry, comparing multiple texts and perspectives, and social action reflect which theory?

A) Critical literacy theory
B) New criticism theory
C) Efferent theory
D) Reader response theory

Question 16

What does the reader response theory encourage students to do?

A) Change their minds and deal with uncertainty and ambiguity.
B) Find the one correct answer.
C) Determine which characters are marginalized.
D) Study texts in isolation.

Question 17

In resistive reading, what do students do?

A) Refuse to read assigned readings.
B) Read for specific information.
C) Read aesthetically.
D) Look for motives and ideologies of the writer and themselves.

Question 18

Within Brozo's male archetypes, which of the following best describes the patriarch?

A) He fights falsehoods and insists on telling the truth.
B) He is a caring and giving male who takes care of others.
C) He is the male who cares for others and is willing to make personal sacrifices for them.
D) He embodies male greatness and acts as a role model.

Question 19

Which of the following is a scaffold for students that blends multiple theoretical perspectives?

A) Guided Reading Literature Study
B) Social Action
C) Critical Response Frame
D) Literary Theories Figure

Question 20

Which of the following is often the case for excellent literature instruction?

A) It reflects one specific theory.
B) It reflects multiple theories.
C) It is not related to any theory.
D) It is difficult to define.