"Over the Rainbow": Fantasy Lands, Dream Worlds, and Magic Kingdoms

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 16.03.02

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Content Objectives
  4. Background: Arte Popular Mexicano and Alebrijes
  5. Literature Selections
  6. Fairy Tale or Folk Tale?
  7. Storytelling and Language
  8. Strategies
  9. Activities and Essential Questions
  10. Assessment Ideas
  11. Appendix A
  12. Appendix B
  13. Resources for the Classroom
  14. Annotated Bibliography
  15. Endnotes

Afirmando Nuestra Identidad (Affirming Our Identity): Exploring Dream Worlds and Storytelling through Alebrijes

Mary Carmen Moreno

Published September 2016

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Endnotes

  1. Maxwell, Lesli. “U.S. School Enrollment Hits Majority-Minority Milestone.” Education Week, Aug. 19, 2014.
  2. National Council of Raza, “Latinos in New Spaces: Emerging Trends and Implications for Federal Education Policy”, National Statistics Brief, 2015.
  3. Nieto, 2002; Soto, (1997), cited in Martinez-Roldan, “Building Worlds and Identities: A Case Study of the Role of Narratives in Bilingual Literature Discussions,” in Research in the Teaching of English, 37 (May 2003): 520.
  4. William Beezley, Mexico—The Essentials, Oxford University Press, 128.
  5. Ibid.
  6. R. Lopez, “Lo mas mexicano que Mexico: Popular Arts, Indians, and Urban Intellectuals in Ethnicization of Post-Revolutionary National Culture, 1920-1972, (Dissertation, Yale University), 8.
  7. P. Linares, as cited in “Pedro Linares Artesano Cartonero”, directed by Judith Bronowski. (1971-1975; Los Angeles:  The Works.), Film. 
  8. H. Zantke, Alebrijes: Masterpieces by Mexican Sculptors and Painters.
  9. J. Angeles, as cited in “Emprendedores Detonantes-Jacobo Angeles”, produced by Congreso Detona.com. (2015; Congreso Detona.), YouTube Video upload.
  10. […we live in distinct worlds, but I will be with you so long as you remember me…He left whistling but left me his flute. Since then, I usually go out in the afternoons to walk through the plains, and there at a distance…, I play on the flute the songs that I learned to play in that region where my grandfather lives]. Translated by Mary Carmen Moreno. July 11, 2016. 
  11. R.S. Bishop, “Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Doors”, https://www.psdschools.org/webfm/8559.
  12. C. M.Tschida, C.L. Ryan, A.S. Ticknor, “Building on Windows and Mirrors: Encouraging the Disruption of “Single Stories” through Children’s Literature”, 29.
  13. C. N. Adichie, “The danger of a single story”, 2009.
  14. L. Terrones, “Tecnica Con/Safos: Visual Iconography in Latino Picture Books as a Tool for Cultural Affirmation”, in Multicultural Literature for Latino Bilingual Children, ed. E.Clark, B. Flores, H. Smith, D. Gonzalez (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), 241.
  15. A. Frank, Letting Stories Breathe-A Socio-Narratology, 3.
  16. Ibid, 2-3.
  17. Jack Zipes, The Irresistible Fairy Tale, 2-3.
  18. Ibid.
  19. Ibid, 4.
  20. Karen Lord, as cited in “Wonderbook”.
  21. S. Curenton, “Oral Storytelling: A Cultural Art That Promotes School Readiness”, 81.
  22. D. Fisher and N. Frey, “Collaborative Conversations”, 57-61.

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