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The Little Mermaid: A Treasured Tale for Reading, Writing, and Thinking

The Little Mermaid: A Treasured Tale for Reading, Writing, and Thinking. Sarah Conrad Carolyn L. Cook, Ph.D. cook@msmary.edu SoMIRAC March 30, 2012. Overview of the Session. Connection to CCSS Mermaid stories Compare and contrast Critical literacy What and why Activities

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The Little Mermaid: A Treasured Tale for Reading, Writing, and Thinking

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  1. The Little Mermaid: A Treasured Tale for Reading, Writing, and Thinking Sarah Conrad Carolyn L. Cook, Ph.D. cook@msmary.edu SoMIRAC March 30, 2012

  2. Overview of the Session • Connection to CCSS • Mermaid stories • Compare and contrast • Critical literacy • What and why • Activities • How to read, write, and think

  3. Common Core State Standards • Reading (CCSS 4.7) • Make connections between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral presentation of the text, identifying where each version reflects specific descriptions and directions in the text. • Writing (CCSS 4.9) • Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research

  4. Goals of Critical Literacy • Read, write, and think in a critical manner • Take a questioning stance on texts encountered daily • Consider social, political, and ethical issues in text • Learn to read the text beyond the words on the page • View texts from a new perspective • Analyze all texts • Books, Movies, Signs, Artifacts, Magazines, Newspapers…

  5. Critical Literacy Encourages “students to use language to questionthe everyday world, to interrogate the relationship between language and power, to analyze popular culture and media, to understandhow power relationships are socially constructed, and to consideractions that can be taken to promote social justice.” (Lewison, Leland & Harste, 2008, p. 3)

  6. Situated Context Personal and Cultural Resources Critical Social Practices Critical Stance (Lewison, Leland & Harste,2008)

  7. Situated Context More than just reading a book

  8. Situated Context TOOLS FOR LIVING: Personal experiences Social issues Popular culture/media Social issues Books Textbooks Oral texts Desires Community concerns Personal and Cultural Resources

  9. Situated Context Personal and Cultural Resources • Disrupting the commonplace • Seeing multiple viewpoints • Focusing on the sociopolitical • Taking action to promote social justice Critical Social Practices

  10. THINK

  11. Situated Context Personal and Cultural Resources Critical Social Practices Critical Stance

  12. Taking a Critical Stance • Involves an attitude, a way of thinking and teaching • Being consciously engaged • Trying new ways of viewing things • Being responsible to solve the situation • Being reflective to challenge common assumptions

  13. Critical Literacy Is “a transaction among the personaland cultural resources we use, the critical social practices we enact, and the critical stance that we and our students take on in classrooms and in the world.” (Lewison, Leland, & Harste, 2008, p. 5)

  14. Consider Little Mermaid Text • Read selected text from Andersen’s Little Mermaid • Complete graphic organizer • Discuss findings

  15. Reading, Writing, & Thinking with Andersen and Disney

  16. Consider Little Mermaid Movie • View video clip from Disney’s Little Mermaid • Complete graphic organizer • Discuss findings • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyFVG4VfPmg&feature=related

  17. Discuss and Write Discuss - What did you notice? - What questions do you have? - What ideas have been challenged? • Write • How could you use critical literacy in your classroom? • Share

  18. Using Critical Literacy • Reading and Viewing • Talking and Thinking • Text vs. Film • Role of Females • Differentiation of Motives • Writing • Persuasion: tell Ariel what to do • Description: describe female role • Comparison: compare and contrast motives

  19. Read, Write, and Think Critically • Use critical literacy in all classrooms • Model taking a critical literacy stance with all types of texts (books, media, advertisements) • Question assumptions, see other perspectives, analyze language and power structures, seek to promote social fairness in all things

  20. References • Andersen, H. C. (1993). The mermaid In Andersen’s Fairy Tales (p. 9-29). Great Britain: Wordsworth Editions Limited. • Disney, W. (2006). The little mermaid– 2 disc special edition [Motion picture]. Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Pictures. • Lewison, M., Leland, C., & Harste, J. (2008). Creating critical classrooms: K-8 reading and writing with an edge. New York, NY: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

  21. The Little Mermaid: A Treasured Tale for Reading, Writing, and Thinking Sarah Conrad Carolyn L. Cook, Ph.D. cook@msmary.edu SoMIRAC March 30, 2012

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