Jessica Sumpter
English 484
April 10, 2008
Response Question
Chapter Eleven
In Chapter Eleven, Teaching Narrative Writing, Neman overviews a variety of techniques and strategies to teach students. It would be impossible to teach all of that information in one unit without losing the students completely. There are two ways to handle the information. One, by choosing what you believe to be the most important, aspects of narrative writing and teaching those, probably through assigned readings which highlight one technique or another. Or two, assigning readings that cover as many of the different techniques and strategies as is appropriate for the unit, and cover the techniques used in the assignments in a close reading. Which technique would be better?