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Revisiting the Classics

Revisiting the Classics. EDML 177. How do we engage YAs with the classics?. Reissuings Abridgements, Retellings, and Adaptations Pairing (match books with similar themes) Bridging (Picture Books) Fracturing. Instruction for Synthesizing Fractured Fairy Tales. Unpack the story

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Revisiting the Classics

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  1. Revisiting the Classics EDML 177

  2. How do we engage YAs with the classics? • Reissuings • Abridgements, Retellings, and Adaptations • Pairing (match books with similar themes) • Bridging (Picture Books) • Fracturing

  3. Instruction for Synthesizing Fractured Fairy Tales • Unpack the story • Story Bookmarks • Writing blended fairy tales

  4. Theories used to teach Literature • New Criticism (closed reading, looking to the text for unity). • Reader Response (Transactional Theory: literary meaning results from conversation of reader and author through the medium of text).

  5. Using Picture Books to Teach Literature • What are the assumptions about picture books? • Infantile topics and pictures • Easy words • Inappropriate for young adolescents

  6. Rationale for using Picture Books in a YA classroom • Conveys literary devices • Models creative writing • Explores issues such as homelessness, war, drugs, death, violence, racism, and divorce • Increase of publication of picture books that address the needs and interests of young adolescents • Picture books are sophisticated, abstract, complex in themes, stories, and illustrations.

  7. Considerations for Selecting Picture Books • Teacher enthusiasm • Ability to achieve lesson’s goals • Ability to use book in more than one content area.

  8. Underground Railroad Quilt & Picture Books • The African American quilt is a cultural hybrid that enjoys encoding meaning through geometric patterns, abstract improvised designs, strip-piecing, bold, singing colors, and distinctive stitches…the African American quilt…is a “fabric griot” (Tobin & Dobard, 1999)

  9. Importance of Slave Stories & the Underground Railroad • Questions still to be answered: • How did slaves plan their escape? • What skills and knowledge did these black men and women possess to aid them? • How would they take the first steps off the plantation and where would they go?

  10. Ozella’s Underground Railroad Quilt Code: Myth or Fact? • http://www.womenfolk.com/historyofquilts/fact_myth.htm • http://www.quiltersmuse.com/an-american-quilt-myth.htm • http://www.freedomcenter.org/underground-railroad/history/myths/

  11. Reference • Tobin, J. & Dobard, R. (1999). Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad. New York: Anchor Books.

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