This thesis aims to suggest specific ways of teaching English to high school students in advanced class through reading a literary text from critical perspective to enhance 'Critical Literacy'. To teach students to read from a critical stance, the the...
This thesis aims to suggest specific ways of teaching English to high school students in advanced class through reading a literary text from critical perspective to enhance 'Critical Literacy'. To teach students to read from a critical stance, the thesis focuses on Critical Literacy, the capability to read text by actively analyzing to find out underlying messages. To apply the 'Critical Literacy' to a literary text, The Color Purple by Alice Walker was chosen to present detailed five-period lesson model. The literary piece was chosen because it dealt with discrimination in terms of gender, race, and class, and students can develop critical way of thinking and create their own values. A movie and a musical version of the piece were also produced, and The Color Purple is applicable in classroom in many different ways. Five meaningful scenes from the text were chosen to be applied to five-period lesson plan according to the process of the heroine Celie, who almost never had ownership for her own body, gradually recovers her personal liberty and finally establish her identity. In the lesson plan, the strategies for critical literacy which were suggested by McLaughlin & DeVoogd were edited and used to apply to the text. It is expected that other literary texts can also be applied by referring to the suggested lesson plan.