eBooks, audiobooks, metafiction, graphic novels, blurred genres, and much more…

Rocking the Landscape of Literature and Literacy:

Books that Rock!

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With Dr. Teri S. Lesesne(rhymes with insane)

  

Karen Jensen, Ohio LMS

 Sparknotes for Goodnight Moon

5  Context America after the Great War was full of economic

prosperity and social upheaval. Margaret Wise Brown, renowned children's book author, made it her life's goal to both comfort the youth of the era and expose the flaws of human advancement through her didactic work. In Goodnight Moon, Brown explores the relationship between a young bunny and his material possessions set against the backdrop of the Cold War. The book was met with critical and commercial success. Margaret Wise Brown's work, which has been translated into countless languages and has sold over 40 million copies, still resonates with children's librarians and counter-culture revolutionaries for its duality as good-natured poetry and allegory of human alienation.

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Plot Overview A bunny says goodnight to the moon and other things.

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Possible Essay Questions 1) Analyze the scene in which the bunny says goodnight

to the lighthouse in relationship with the rest of the book. Cite textual evidence whenever possible.

 2) Compare and contrast Goodnight Moon with The Sun

Also Rises. Whose sentences are simpler: Brown's or Hemingway's?

 3) What have you said goodnight to? Analyze what that

says about you. Try not to cry. 

Not just looking at fads and trends…

Looking at shift in paradigms

The first dimensional shift has to do with literacy and how it is evolving. Literacy today involves not only text, but also image and screen literacy. The ability to "read" multimedia texts and to feel comfortable with new, multiple-media genres is decidedly nontrivial.

GROWING UP DIGITALJohn Seeley Brown

 

The developmental psychologist Jerome Bruner made a brilliant observation years ago when he said we can teach people about a subject matter like physics-its concepts, conceptual frameworks, its facts-and provide them with explicit knowledge of the field, but being a physicist involves a lot more than getting all the answers right at the end of each chapter.

John Seeley Brown

Decoding vs. Reading

Likewise, we can provide kids with all of the tools and skills of reading but not transform them into readers. Becoming a reader takes more than skills.

Me

The first dimensional shift has to do with literacy and how it is evolving. Literacy today involves not only text, but also image and screen literacy. The ability to "read" multimedia texts and to feel comfortable with new, multiple-media genres is decidedly nontrivial.

GROWING UP DIGITALJohn Seeley Brown

 

The developmental psychologist Jerome Bruner made a brilliant observation years ago when he said we can teach people about a subject matter like physics-its concepts, conceptual frameworks, its facts-and provide them with explicit knowledge of the field, but being a physicist involves a lot more than getting all the answers right at the end of each chapter.

John Seeley Brown

Likewise, we can provide kids with all of the tools and skills of reading but not transform them into readers. Becoming a reader takes more than skills.

Me

Decoding vs. Reading

Metafiction

Forms and formats (audio, ebooks, vooks, etc.)

Blending and blurring of genres

What is ROCKING the Landscape?

Philip Nel

http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.o

rg/imr/2010/09/03/metafiction-children-users-guide

Everything Old is New Again…Metafiction

What is METAFICTION?

Simply, it is fiction ABOUT fiction

A book that reflects on what a book IS

Blurs the boundaries of STORY

Can also include METAPICTURES (pictures that reflect upon nature of pictures)

Confused? Let’s see some examples

METAFICTION Personified

Metafiction for Younger Readers

ISBN, TOC…

Metafiction and some textless

METAFICTION FOR OLDER READERS

Different formats and platforms

Audio eBooks

Audiobooks: Forms and formats

eBooksKindle iPad readers

Form and format

Textless Books: Using Illustrations in lieu of words

Getting Graphic

For younger readers

Great Graphic Novels Top 1041

GN Biography

Award winning GN

For mature readers

Blurring the boundaries

And creating some that are new

Graphic Nonfiction

Nonfiction, kinda

Digital Reading (and writing)

Ch-ch-ch-changes!