Quotes from "Literature's Emotional Lessons" Add a quote from the article that resonated with you. Then, attach an image of a "text" that had an emotional impact on or connection to you at some point in your life. by

Kaelin Dyet

2024-01-09 22:15:28 UTC

"Piggy's demise was not the symbolic death of order logic, but the murder of a kid like her".

Natalie Letts

2024-01-09 22:15:50 UTC

one quote that stuck out in the article was that “literature can play a vital role in helping people understand the lives and minds of others”

Dana Sullivan

2024-01-09 22:15:55 UTC

“…literature can play a vital role in helping people understand the lives and minds of others,”

Hana Chizzo

2024-01-09 22:16:16 UTC

“There’s a certain level of honesty reflected in art”

Sara Mirtorabi

2024-01-09 22:16:27 UTC

"translate the historical into the personal" (Simmons 2)

Angela Maiorca

2024-01-09 22:17:21 UTC

“The student explained that she identified with Piggy…it upset her to casually discuss his violent death. Piggy’s demise was not the symbolic death of order or logic, but the murder of a kid like her.”

Selina Iskandar

2024-01-09 22:17:25 UTC

“Literary study should… provide us with many complex models for understanding and responding to others and to ourselves”

Blake McCrary

2024-01-09 22:17:45 UTC

“And one may only have to read fiction to understand that solutions can spring as readily from love and empathy as logic”

Nora Barakat

2024-01-09 22:17:47 UTC

Ben

2024-01-09 22:17:59 UTC

"An emotional impact should be part of the curriculum".

2024-01-09 22:18:13 UTC

“There’s a certain level of honesty reflected in art which deals with the psychological, social, and emotional fallout of such violence.”

Gaby Schirado

2024-01-09 22:18:14 UTC

"... students may strictly do the analytical work teachers expect without the interference of a significant emotional response"

Bashaer Jaberi

2024-01-09 22:18:20 UTC

“After all, one only has to live on a violent, beleaguered planet and watch the news to know we are troubled. And one may only have to read fiction to understand that solutions can spring as readily from love and empathy as logic.”

Neida F.

2024-01-09 22:18:30 UTC

“A teacher should help students process the book’s depiction of characters’ traumas, guiding them toward greater empathetic heights — and therefore maybe preparing them to okay a role in repairing one of America’s most gaping societal wounds.”

Mia Alvarez

2024-01-09 22:18:37 UTC

"There's a certain level of honesty reflected in art which deals with the psychological, social, and emotional fallout of such violence"

Andy Paymard

2024-01-09 22:18:49 UTC

“It’s easy to see trends in death, war, destruction, and oppression in our current society (Simmons, 2) ”

Jacy Vernon

2024-01-09 22:18:58 UTC

The fictional frame allows students to work through the autobiographical feelings more fully, and more honestly, as there is deniability.

Aiden DePrano

2024-01-09 22:19:05 UTC

"Yet while such a unit may be rigorous intellectually, it is arguably incomplete unless students tangle with the book's emotional core."

Ayden Sayeri

2024-01-09 22:19:09 UTC

“Piggy’s demise was not the symbolic death of order or logic, but the murder of a kid nearly like her.”

Dunia Fayad

2024-01-09 22:19:32 UTC

"Creating yourself is a source of great pride, but it also leads to a feeling of having no foundations. I've known many gifted children of immigrants who have a sense of being lilies growing in a swamp - beautiful flowers but no deep roots."

Natalie Ben-Shushan

2024-01-09 22:19:34 UTC

"English teachers, it seems, are in a unique position to impose some degree of emotional and moral rigor on the curriculum" (Simmons para. 17).

Cayla Martine

2024-01-09 22:19:45 UTC

Alana Mejia

2024-01-09 22:20:01 UTC

“Literature can play a vital role in helping people understand the lives and minds of others, and that individuals and communities can benefit from that ability along with literacy and analytical prowess. “

Zain Shah

2024-01-09 22:20:04 UTC

‘“Literary study should … provide us with many complex models for understanding and responding to others and to ourselves,’ said Patrick Hogan”

Danielle Robinson

2024-01-09 22:20:10 UTC

“I show students real-life stories about adults enacting their ignorance and hated on the world” - Shaun Bond

Sarah Cohen

2024-01-09 22:20:16 UTC

Characters are fictitious abstractions, and, without actors to bring them to life and makeup and digital tricks to make the drama feel real

2024-01-09 22:20:45 UTC

“Good writing tends to focus on difficult-to-deal-with themes because those are the themes difficult to understand,”

Into the wild was my favorite and had an impact because Chris wanted to really enjoy the real free world and didn’t want to live in a world where we have to follow rules and pay for stuff because this a a free world.

Bella Medrano

2024-01-09 22:22:31 UTC

“Emotional health might be hard to measure on a large scale by traditional testing methods, but it’s far from squishy, and certainly no less tangible than the technical skills education-policy framers seek to standardize.”

Farajh Deen

2024-01-09 22:22:42 UTC

"Literary study should ... provide us with many complex models of understanding and responding to others and ourselves." (Patrick Hogan)

2024-01-09 22:22:46 UTC

"While such a unit may be rigorous intellectually, it is arguably incomplete unless the students tangle eith the book's emotional core."

Salma Nabi

2024-01-09 22:23:12 UTC

“There’s a certain level of honesty reflected in art which deals with the psychological, social, emotional, fallout of such violence.”

2024-01-09 22:24:05 UTC

“literature can play a vital role in helping people understand the lives and minds of others…”