Children's Literature, Infancy to Early Adolescence

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 06.03.10

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Objectives
  4. Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Bibliography
  7. Endnotes

The Big Con: Tricking the High School Student into Writing a Research Paper

Sarah B. Humphrey

Published September 2006

Tools for this Unit:

Bibliography

Teacher Bibliography

On Tricksters:

Hyde, Lewis. Trickster Makes this World. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998.

A fantastic resource, but not the most exciting book I've ever read. He sure likes to focus on the consumption of body parts. The appendices were most helpful.

Reesman, Jeanne Campbell, ed. Trickster Lives: Culture and Myth in American Fiction. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001.

This is a great book. She has compiled a who's who of experts on trickster in literature.

, the Free Encyclopedia (2006). "Trickster" Last Accessed June 25, 2006 at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickster

I really love this website. It is the best online encyclopedia and the fact that its readers help to write the entries means the entries are more specialized.

Heiner, Heidi Anne (2006), SurLaLune Fairy Tales. Last Accessed July 13, 2006 at http://www.surlalunefairytales.com

This is a great online reference. It contains information on most every tale known. It also contains the full text of several stories.

On Bloom's Taxonomy:

Clark, Donald (1999). Learning Domains or Bloom's Taxonomy. Last accessed

June 25, 2006 at http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/bloom.html

A basic primer on Bloom's Taxonomy.

On Writing the Research Paper:

Grand Valley State University (2004). Research Skills Tutorial. Last accessed June 25, 2006 at http://www.gvsu.edu/library/webtutor2/intro/intro1.htm

A great resource for students and a good refresher for teachers teaching the research paper for the first or 200th time.

Lester, James D. Citing Electronic Sources in MLA Style. Last accessed June 25, 2006 at http://www.apsu.edu/~lesterj/CYBER3.HTM#World%20Wide%20Web%20Site

A must for all on citing websites in a research paper.

Student Bibliography

Kimmel, Eric A. Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock. Holiday House, 1990.

This is a really funny picture book, in which the other animals get back at Anansi.

Knutson, Barbara. Love and Roast Chicken. Carolrhoda Books, 2004.

A hilarious South American story about a tricky guinea pig.

MacDonald, Amy. Please Malese! A Trickster Tale from Haiti. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

A colorful picture book featuring a human trickster from Haiti.

McDermott, Gerald. Coyote: A Trickster Tale from the American Southwest. Voyager Books, 1999.

A Native American trickster picture book.

McDermott, Gerald. Jabuti the Tortoise: A Trickster Tale from the Amazon. Harcourt Children's Books, 2001.

An Amazonian trickster picture book.

McDermott, Gerald. Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest. Voyager Books, 2001.

A picture book that is also a creation myth.

McDermott, Gerald. Zomo the Rabbit: A Trickster Tale from West Africa. Voyager Books, 1996.

An African alternative to Anansi. Zomo also pops up in Caribbean tales.

McDermott, Gerald. Papagayo The Mischief Maker. Voyager Books, 1992.

A fun picture book about a noisy parrot.

Student Research Paper Book List

Atwood, Margaret

The Robber Bride

Badelier, Adolph

The Delight Makers

Briggs, J.P.

Trickster Tales

Bull, Emma

War for the Oaks

Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Miller's Tale

The Reeve's Tale

The Merchant's Tale

De Lint, Charles

Medicine Road

Someplace to be Flying

Driving Hawk Sneve, Virginia

The Trickster and the Troll

Dunn, Carolyn

Outfoxing Coyote

Gaiman, Neil

American Gods

Anansi Boys

Ginsberg, Allen

Selected Poems

Gray, Muriel

The Trickster

Greenhalgh, Zora

Contrarywise

Trickster's Touch

Heller, Joseph

Catch-22

Hilgartner, Beth

Colors in the Dreamweaver's Loom

The Feast of the Trickster

Hong Kingston, Maxine

Tripmaster Monkey

Johnson, Kij

Fox Woman

King, Thomas

Green Grass, Running Water

One Good Story, That One

Lenard-Cook, Lisa

Coyote Morning

London, Jack

"The Priestly Prerogative"

"The Son of the Wolf"

Mahey, Margaret

The Tricksters

Melville, Herman

Billy Budd

The Confidence Man

Moore, Christopher

A Dirty Job

Coyote Blue

Morrison, Toni

Sula

Beloved

O'Connor, Flannery

Good Country People

Owens, Louis

Bone Game

Pierce, Tamora

Trickster's Choice

Trickster's Queen

Power, Susan

The Grass Dancer

Shakespeare, William

As You Like It

The Taming of the Shrew

A Comedy of Errors

Love's Labor's Lost

Much Ado About Nothing

Snyder, Midori

Hannah's Garden

The Flight of Michael McBride

Steiber, Ellen

"The Fox Wife"

A Rumor of Gems

The Shadow Of the Fox

Twain, Mark

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Innocents Abroad

Roughing It

Windling, Terri

The Wood Wife

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