Happily Ever After

by Young, Terrell A.

• ISBN13: 9780872075108
• ISBN10: 0872075109
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Intl Literacy Assn

Summary

Reader-friendly articles that define folk literature and its subgenres, provide strategies for using folklore across the curriculum, and describe techniques for teaching students to write their own folk stories

Table of Contents

PREFACE	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	x
CONTRIBUTORS	xi
SECTION ONE Introducing the Folk Literature Genre
CHAPTER 1 Unraveling the Tapestry: An Overview of the Folk Literature Genre
Terrell A. Young	2	(16)
SECTION TWO Exploring the Subgenres of Folk Literature
CHAPTER 2 The How and Why of Folk Tales
Anne Marie Kraus	18	(38)
CHAPTER 3 The Moral of the Story: Learning About Fables
Nancy J. Johnson and Angela Sorgatz Vroom	56	(13)
CHAPTER 4 Mythology: A Cosmic Theater
Sam L. Sebesta and Dianne L: Monson	69	(13)
CHAPTER 5 Legend Has It: What Legends Bring to Classroom Learning
Darty H. Bradley	82	(28)
CHAPTER 6 Tall Tales: An American Folk Invention
Linda M. Pavonetti	110	(28)
SECTION THREE Sampling Folk Literature Across Cultures
CHAPTER 7 Folk Tales From the African Diaspora: The Power of the Oral Tradition
Deborah L. Thompson	138	(14)
CHAPTER 8 When Tigers Smoked Pipes: Asian Folk Literature
Belinda Y. Louie	152	(12)
CHAPTER 9 European Folk Tales and Their Value Today
Ellen A. Greever and John Warren Stewig	164	(17)
CHAPTER 10 Jewish Folk Tales: From Elijah the Prophet to the Wise Men of Chelm
Evelyn B. Freeman	181	(11)
CHAPTER 11 Exploring Latino Culture Through Folk Tales
Lynn Atkinson Smolen and Victoria Ortiz-Castro	192	(27)
CHAPTER 12 Open Sesame! Middle Eastern and Indian Subcontinent Folk Literature
Marcia Baghban	219	(14)
CHAPTER 13 Tribal Stories From Native America
Debbie A. Reese	233	(15)
SECTION FOUR Celebrating Folk Literature in the Classroom
CHAPTER 14 Cinderella and Her Sisters: Variants and Versions
Ann Sloan and Sylvia M. Vardell	248	(15)
CHAPTER 15 Starting at the Roots: Collecting Folklore in the Home, School, and Community
Nancy L. Hadaway	263	(19)
CHAPTER 16 "I'll Be the Monster!" Folk Tales and Classroom Drama
Judy Sierra	282	(11)
CHAPTER 17 Transforming Fairy Tales to Inspire Young Authors
Laura Tuiaea	293	(23)
CHAPTER 18 Timeless and Timely Fairy Tales, Ideologies, and the Modern Classroom
Jane E. Kelley	316
AFTERWORD
Susan Hepler	331	(4)
AUTHOR INDEX	335	(3)
FOLK LITERATURE AUTHOR INDEX	338	(6)
SUBJECT INDEX	344