Children's Literature, Infancy to Early Adolescence

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 06.03.09

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Overview
  2. Objectives
  3. Strategies
  4. Classroom Activities
  5. Bibliography
  6. Appendices/ Standards
  7. Endnotes

Using African and African-American Folktales in a Genre Study

Rita A. Sorrentino

Published September 2006

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Endnotes

1. Carl Smith. "Helping Children Understand Literary Genres" at http://www.ericdigests.org/1994/genres.htm> accessed on June 30, 2006.

2. "Culture as Reflected in Folktales" at http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/elemsoc/g3u22ess.html#time> accessed on July 5, 2006.

3. Jane Yolen. Favorite Folktales from around the World. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986, 8-9.

4. Carl Smith.

5. D.L. Ashliman. Folk and Fairy Tales. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2004, 10.

6. "What is Folklore?" The American Folklore Society at http://www.afsnet.org/aboutfolklore/aboutFL.cfm> accessed on July 11, 2006.

7. D.L. Ashliman. Folk and Fairy Tales. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2004, 32-41.

8. Ashliman, 77.

9. Ashliman, 34.

10. Stith Thompson. The Folktale. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977, 9.

11. Thompson, 415.

12. "Vladimir Propp's Morphology of the Folk Tale." 23 July 2006. http://www.bookrags.com/essays/story/2005/11/1/171729/302

13. Ashliman, 139

14. Ashliman, 146.

15. Ashliman, 136, 149.

16. Roger Abrahams, Afro-American Folktales. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985, 19.

17. Abrahams, 20.

18. Langston Hughes, and Arna Bontemps, Eds. The Book of Negro Folklore. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1958, viii.

19. http://www.childrenslit.com/f_lester.html

20. Carlene Hempel. "The Man: Facts, Fiction and Themes" at http://www.ibiblio.org/john_henry accessed on July 10, 2006.

21. Further information about the 100 Book Challenge can be found at http://www.100bookchallenge.com.

22. http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr06/mtai/lester.html

23. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/world/onyourstreet/thestreet/nigeria/nigeria_listen.shtml

24. http://www.aviarts.com/demos/flash/abadjarhythm/index.html

25. Dan Schmidt. Kidcast: Podcasting in the Classroom. FTP Publishing: Illinois, 2005, 35-=40.

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