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From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:14:27 -0500
It's time to turn our energy and focus to the topic for the first half of September: Parallel Perspectives: Exploring Subjects through Fact and Fiction.
In "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler?s Shadow "(Scholastic Nonfiction, 2005), Susan Campbell Bartoletti looked at the lives of children and teens who marched for Adolf Hitler. In her novel "The Boy Who Dared" Scholastic, 2008), based on the life of Helmuth Hubener, Bartoletti creates a tense and resonant work of fiction about a teen?s political and personal awakening after leaving the Hitler youth and deciding he must challenge his government?s oppression. Each book is powerful on its own, but paired, they offer essential facts as well as a tense and resonant emotional journey into a teen?s growing awareness of his need to act.
These two books are just one example of the ways a single subject can be explored through both fact and fiction in children?s and young adult literature. We're interested to hear from you on how you pair fiction and non-fiction books--in your library or in your classrooms--to offer children and teens more than one way to engage with a specifc subject. We'd also like your thoughts on how using a variety of genres can enhance and extend how children and teens can connect to and understand a single topic.
Megan
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:14:27 -0500
It's time to turn our energy and focus to the topic for the first half of September: Parallel Perspectives: Exploring Subjects through Fact and Fiction.
In "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler?s Shadow "(Scholastic Nonfiction, 2005), Susan Campbell Bartoletti looked at the lives of children and teens who marched for Adolf Hitler. In her novel "The Boy Who Dared" Scholastic, 2008), based on the life of Helmuth Hubener, Bartoletti creates a tense and resonant work of fiction about a teen?s political and personal awakening after leaving the Hitler youth and deciding he must challenge his government?s oppression. Each book is powerful on its own, but paired, they offer essential facts as well as a tense and resonant emotional journey into a teen?s growing awareness of his need to act.
These two books are just one example of the ways a single subject can be explored through both fact and fiction in children?s and young adult literature. We're interested to hear from you on how you pair fiction and non-fiction books--in your library or in your classrooms--to offer children and teens more than one way to engage with a specifc subject. We'd also like your thoughts on how using a variety of genres can enhance and extend how children and teens can connect to and understand a single topic.
Megan
-- Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison 608/262-9503 schliesman at education.wisc.edu www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/Received on Wed 03 Sep 2008 04:14:27 PM CDT
