In my master's thesis, I dealt with assigned reading in literature lessons, more precisely with assigned reading in the secondary school educational program of gymnasiums. With the renewal of the curricula for primary and secondary schools, which has been going on since the school year 2023/24, secondary school assigned reading was considered from the point of view of starting points for the previously mentioned renewal, with an emphasis on two common goals, namely entrepreneurship, as well as health and well-being. Thus, I presented The starting points for the renewal of curricula in primary and secondary schools (2022), which serve as the basis for the second document that I presented - Common goals and their placement in the curricula and knowledge catalogs from 2023. By dealing with assigned reading (Krakar Vogel 2020), I connected common goals based on problem-creative literature lessons (Žbogar 2013). I was also looking at how assigned reading is currently set in the Slovenian secondary school curriculum for literature lessons (2018) in secondary school and was comparing it with the Croatian (2019), Italian (2010) and Austrian (2023) curriculum.
The master's thesis continues with the presentation of typology of school literary reading according to Alenka Žbogar (2014, 2021), and is divided into descriptive, (meta)cognitive-critical and creative reading. The theoretical findings are connected to practice - based on the articles published by the teachers, which proved to be a qualitatively designed discussions of assigned reading or literature lessons at a higher level. I conclude my master's thesis with a suggestion of assigned reading discussion in secondary school, namely an anti-utopian novel by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid's Tale. In my suggestion, I use the method of staged reading (Krakar Vogel 2020), the method of problem-creative teaching (Žbogar 2013), individual and selective assessment, and I draw attention to all three types of literary school reading (Žbogar 2014, 2021), which we often encounter during the discussion.
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