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[CCBC-Net] Authenticity and accuracy
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From: Lyn Jones <ljones>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 08:06:15 -0500
Hear ye! My ultimate goal as a junior high English teacher is get my kids to love words. Obviously, I have many sub goals, but that is the main course. When I have kids who walk into my room voicing defensively and daring me with their comments about how they hate to read, I am ready. I hand them Nightfather by Carl Friedman, Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen, Petey by Ben Mikaelsen, or Jazmin's Notebook by Nikki Grimes. The real reluctant and struggling readers don't care what unit we are studying. They don't care who the author is. They don't care about the authenticity or who is "in" or "out." They care about the story. They love the story. And, they read. And, they say it's the only book they have ever finished. And, they want more. After I have them reconnected to reading, then and only then can I work on the other stuff. Then and only then can I discuss with them authenticity. Those of us in the daily grind know this. We read and read trying to find those books to give to those kids who dare us to make them like words. Lyn Jones Fishers Junior High A human mind once stretched to a new idea, never returns to its former dimensions. ~ Oliver Wendall Holmes
-----Original Message---- From: park/dobbin
[mailto:bdobbin at rochester.rr.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 5:05 PM
To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Authenticity and accuracy
Dreamland: Where readers and reviewers read a book with all reference to
the author removed. No name, no bio information, no jacket photo. Where
they judge issues of authenticity and accuracy based on the text alone.
Where they write and present those judgements--and THEN find out who the
author is.
Authenticity of feeling and accuracy of fact must be conveyed by the words
themselves. Whether the author is inside the culture, outside it, Martian,
amphibian, what have you--take it out of the equation. Judge the story by
what makes it a story--by its words.
Anything else *should* be irrelevant. And I'm often bemused and sometimes
saddened by how often the "anything elses" impose themselves--not for
marketing or sales or publicity, I understand how these things work--but for
discussion of a book's value in communities of readers like this one.
~~~
Linda Sue Park
~~~
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Received on Fri 02 Feb 2001 07:06:15 AM CST
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 08:06:15 -0500
Hear ye! My ultimate goal as a junior high English teacher is get my kids to love words. Obviously, I have many sub goals, but that is the main course. When I have kids who walk into my room voicing defensively and daring me with their comments about how they hate to read, I am ready. I hand them Nightfather by Carl Friedman, Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen, Petey by Ben Mikaelsen, or Jazmin's Notebook by Nikki Grimes. The real reluctant and struggling readers don't care what unit we are studying. They don't care who the author is. They don't care about the authenticity or who is "in" or "out." They care about the story. They love the story. And, they read. And, they say it's the only book they have ever finished. And, they want more. After I have them reconnected to reading, then and only then can I work on the other stuff. Then and only then can I discuss with them authenticity. Those of us in the daily grind know this. We read and read trying to find those books to give to those kids who dare us to make them like words. Lyn Jones Fishers Junior High A human mind once stretched to a new idea, never returns to its former dimensions. ~ Oliver Wendall Holmes
-----Original Message---- From: park/dobbin
[mailto:bdobbin at rochester.rr.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 5:05 PM
To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Authenticity and accuracy
Dreamland: Where readers and reviewers read a book with all reference to
the author removed. No name, no bio information, no jacket photo. Where
they judge issues of authenticity and accuracy based on the text alone.
Where they write and present those judgements--and THEN find out who the
author is.
Authenticity of feeling and accuracy of fact must be conveyed by the words
themselves. Whether the author is inside the culture, outside it, Martian,
amphibian, what have you--take it out of the equation. Judge the story by
what makes it a story--by its words.
Anything else *should* be irrelevant. And I'm often bemused and sometimes
saddened by how often the "anything elses" impose themselves--not for
marketing or sales or publicity, I understand how these things work--but for
discussion of a book's value in communities of readers like this one.
~~~
Linda Sue Park
~~~
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