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From: Katy Southern <kasouthern>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 13:42:11 -0500
I want to add to the good words for Shaun Tan's The Arrival. It is a stunningly beautiful, rich story. I love it so much that I've been temptedt to buy it from amazon.uk where it is available now, rather than patiently wait until October. It would be wonderful to use in the classroom in a unit on immigrants and immigration, and the ways these things are represented in images and texts.
Katy Southern Teaching Assistant - Department of English Ph.D. Candidate - Department of English (Composition and Rhetoric)
----- Original Message ----- From: Monica Edinger <monicaedinger at gmail.com> Date: Monday, May 7, 2007 12:56 pm Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Immigrants and Immigration To: "Hopkinson, Deborah" <Deborah.Hopkinson at oregonstate.edu> Cc: "ccbc-net, Subscribers of" <ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu>
> As Deborah mentioned (thanks, Deborah!) I have been teaching and
> writing about teaching this topic for many years. The book she
> mentioned is a picture book, Who Belongs Here? written by Margy Burns
> Knight and illustrated by Anne Sibley O'Brien, that I use to begin a
> conversation that my students and I keep up all year long.
>
> I love introducing my students to Charlie Chaplin after visiting Ellis
> Island. Chaplin's short "The Immigrant" is such a great parody of the
> same old movies we have just seen of people coming through Ellis
> Island. And Avi's Silent Movie beautifully illustrated by C. B. Mordan
> is a great follow-up to that.
>
> Since we focus first on picture books (as models for the ones my
> students do themselves with oral histories they've done) and then on
> historical fiction (in preparation for writing their own), I haven't
> used contemporary works of fiction on this topic with my students. But
> if I did I'd very likely use Candace Fleming's charming Lowji
> Discovers America.
>
> And then there is one of the most extraordinary graphic novels I've
> seen in some time --- Shaun Tan's The Arrival. it isn't out till the
> fall, but keep an eye for it! An absolutely original and wonderful
> take on the classic immigrant experience seen in a totally fresh way.
>
> Monica
>
>
> --
> Monica Edinger
> The Dalton School
> New York NY
> monicaedinger at gmail.com
> my blog educating alice is at http://medinger.wordpress.com
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Received on Fri 11 May 2007 01:42:11 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 13:42:11 -0500
I want to add to the good words for Shaun Tan's The Arrival. It is a stunningly beautiful, rich story. I love it so much that I've been temptedt to buy it from amazon.uk where it is available now, rather than patiently wait until October. It would be wonderful to use in the classroom in a unit on immigrants and immigration, and the ways these things are represented in images and texts.
Katy Southern Teaching Assistant - Department of English Ph.D. Candidate - Department of English (Composition and Rhetoric)
----- Original Message ----- From: Monica Edinger <monicaedinger at gmail.com> Date: Monday, May 7, 2007 12:56 pm Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Immigrants and Immigration To: "Hopkinson, Deborah" <Deborah.Hopkinson at oregonstate.edu> Cc: "ccbc-net, Subscribers of" <ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu>
> As Deborah mentioned (thanks, Deborah!) I have been teaching and
> writing about teaching this topic for many years. The book she
> mentioned is a picture book, Who Belongs Here? written by Margy Burns
> Knight and illustrated by Anne Sibley O'Brien, that I use to begin a
> conversation that my students and I keep up all year long.
>
> I love introducing my students to Charlie Chaplin after visiting Ellis
> Island. Chaplin's short "The Immigrant" is such a great parody of the
> same old movies we have just seen of people coming through Ellis
> Island. And Avi's Silent Movie beautifully illustrated by C. B. Mordan
> is a great follow-up to that.
>
> Since we focus first on picture books (as models for the ones my
> students do themselves with oral histories they've done) and then on
> historical fiction (in preparation for writing their own), I haven't
> used contemporary works of fiction on this topic with my students. But
> if I did I'd very likely use Candace Fleming's charming Lowji
> Discovers America.
>
> And then there is one of the most extraordinary graphic novels I've
> seen in some time --- Shaun Tan's The Arrival. it isn't out till the
> fall, but keep an eye for it! An absolutely original and wonderful
> take on the classic immigrant experience seen in a totally fresh way.
>
> Monica
>
>
> --
> Monica Edinger
> The Dalton School
> New York NY
> monicaedinger at gmail.com
> my blog educating alice is at http://medinger.wordpress.com
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