Literary Education: Strategies and Text Analysis
Teaching Strategies for Literature Education
Activities for Engaging with Literature
In Poetry and Song: You can propose an activity to study poetic language through songs. The teacher can bring recordings of songs to class that they believe may interest students and work on the texts in print.
To Read and Edit Stories: A strategy to encounter popular literary texts is to collect myths and legends from family and people in the neighborhood or town. The work involves collecting legends, transcribing them from recordings, or writing them down and sharing them with classmates.
The Theater at School: Children experience theater as a symbolic play, taking on roles, imitating characters, and transforming them, giving way to their imagination. In school, education can be promoted through stories that can become interpretive scripts.
The Literature Workshop: It must have clear organization and planning, with materials or tools that serve as resources for the intended purpose. The space where the workshop takes place is very important. It must be appropriate for group work and acclimated to a work environment that facilitates communication among peers and teacher mobility across working groups.
Becquer and His Legends
Becquer
He is known as a Romantic poet. His work is always rhymed, romantic, and sometimes considered frivolous. Some consider him a lesser writer due to this perceived frivolity. He has often been associated with Federico García Lorca, who was assassinated. He cultivated literature, writing, and music, leaving a trace of these in his poetry. The landscapes he walked through left a mark on his poetry, and many people try to identify the places Becquer describes. Like many other writers, Becquer turned to journalism to survive. This poet is closely related to Romanticism. He participated in the newspaper with collected letters called “Letters to a Woman,” which was a kind of treatise on love.
Legends: A transmitter of tradition. He wrote “The White Doe,” “The Kiss,” and “The Miserere.” Some of the features of the legends of the genre are traditional themes, historical vagueness, imitation of the folkloric, and supernatural intervention in a realistic world.
The themes of the legends include good and evil, the afterlife, art, love and women, and feelings.
The Didactic Function of Literary Commentary
- Develop oral and written expression.
- Enhance the capacity for abstraction.
- Facilitate the interpretation of the text.
- Bring the student closer to the literary text so they can understand, appreciate, and enjoy it.
Advice for Effective Literary Commentary
- Read the text slowly, trying to understand the main and secondary ideas.
- Look up unfamiliar words in the dictionary.
- Interpret the text after reading.
- Analyze the form of the message.
- Research data on the time of the text, author, etc.
Phases of Literary Commentary
- Reading the text
- Location
- Determination of the issue
- Determination of the structure
- Analysis linking form to theme
- Conclusion
Finally, note that two great enemies of commentary are paraphrasing the text and using the text as a mere pretext.
Key Literary Skills for Students
- Identify a literary text based on formal and content criteria.
- Recognize major literary genres and literary structure.
- Distinguish prose from verse.
- Analyze the rhyme and the meter of a poem.
- Differentiate various stylistic devices and their purposes.
- Develop a story.
- Write a script for a play.
Motivation in the Learning Process
Any learning process must be promoted through a motivation phase where the teacher’s performance is definitive. The reward for student attention and effort must be clear: it can be the enjoyment of a book or a non-material prize. Motivation is activated when there is a pleasant classroom climate and students feel free to interpret a text or create their own.