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Title: Literature Experience Projects


1
Literature Experience Projects
  • Gerstacker Mini-Grant
  • Nicki Colman
  • 2008

2
The Goal The Hope
  • To bring a greater understanding of the themes
    found in literature through personal / physical
    experience.
  • Students who can not access the written word at
    grade level can still assimilate commonalities
    between grade level literature themes and their
    lives.

3
The What
  • Materials provided through grant
  • Joey Pigza
  • reading series by Jack Gantos
  • 8 digital Cameras
  • Collage supplies
  • Film developing

4
The How
  • Students read the Joey Pigza series as a quick
    read, the theme of self-awareness was drawn out.
    (Joey is self described as Mr. Helpful / Wired)
  • The main character traits of Joey, Andy (Pretty
    in Pink), Napoleon (Napoleon Dynamite), and
    themselves were compared in respect to
    self-awareness qualities.

5
The Culmination Collage
  • The students were challenged to explore their
    world as they photographed scenes from their
    life. The scenes were framed around four
    thematic explorations self portrait, community,
    family and dreams.
  • This experience provided an opportunity to engage
    photography as an art form (self- awareness and
    exploration) and to connect visual literacy to
    verbal and written communication.

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The How cont
  • American Literary Classic Walt Whitmans Leaves
    of Grass, read and discussed.
  • The theory of existentialism was introduced
    through Whitman. Comparison of main characters
    were revisited and examples of existential traits
    were identified in each.
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