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Each unit of my book as 6 sections...
Overview (where I introduce the ideas and reasons why they should work),
Standards (where I list educational standards that relate to the unit),
Technology,
Resources,
Activities (Where I suggest plans), and
Assessment(guidance for grading)
My intro will start with these two paragraphs (this is very drafty) formatted next to each other (like parallel texts) and then I will discuss the convergence of teaching, learning, fanfic, and literature.
Left Column
Literary history is full of derivative and transformative works. It is so pervasive that it goes beyond a genre and can be seen across authors and periods in varying degrees of intensity, from antiquity to today. The Aenid is Vergil’s sequel to the Iliad, imagining what happens to the survivors of the decimated Troy. Boccacio, Chaucer, and Shakespeare all wrote stories about Troilus and Cressida, star-crossed lovers of the Trojan War. Though then never appear in Homer’s work, they have been put in Troy with missing scenes and alterative points of view on the war.
Milton’s Paradise Lost supplies missing scenes from the Bible and
Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Author’s Court mixes the universes of Arthurian Legend and Nineteenth Century industrialism.
More recent and self-consciously derivative examples are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Dead (Stoppard) and Grendel (Gardner). In fact, the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction went to March by Geradine Brooks the story of the missing father from Alcott’s Little Women.
Right Column
Fanfiction predates the Internet but has and grown and thrived online. Fans of particular books, movies, TV shows, and video games write extensions of these stories and then, read, revise, collaborate, and comment on them with fans who share their passion. Online blogging communities such as LiveJournal and sites such as Fanfiction.net have become have more than repositories of fanfiction.
They are communities of readers and writers, providing commentary, sharing enthusiasm, proofreading and collaborating on creative pieces. The fanfiction community has developed a jargon with words like fanon, Mary Sue, angstfic, and spackle—terms that facilitate communication and reinforce the sense of fandom. Fans write missing scenes, sequels, prequels, and versions of the story from other perspectives.
Though the most popular sources for fanfiction are Harry Potter and other fantasy and science fiction stories, works such as Pride and Predjuice, the Bible, and 1984 have been popular sources of Fanfiction.
Begining list of resources
Literature in the spirit of fanfic
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs (Scieszka, 1989)—Some students might be familiar with this book from their own childhoods. Even if they are not, it is a clear way to introduce the concept of derivative and transformative literature and multiple perspectives. This is a good example (though not quite an appropriate reading) for a discussion on the topic, though I would not order the books.
Ahab's Wife (Naslund, 1999). Story of the wife of Ahab.
Angel and Apostle ( Noyes , 2005) Young adult literature that focuses on Pearl’s life from child to young woman.
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (1999). Cinderella’s Step Sister’s Story.
Gertrude and Claudius (Updike, 2000)—A prequel to Hamlet focusing on the story of Hamlet’s mother and uncle.
Foe: A Novel (Coetzee, 1987)—Robinson Caruso from Friday’s perspective.
by J. M. Coetzee
Grendel (Gardner, 1971). The Dragon’s perspective of Beowulf.
A House-Boat on the Styx (Bangs, 1895)—the underworld peopled by literary and historic characters.
Mary Reilly 1990 The maid’s version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
The Mists of Avalon (Zimmer Bradley, 1982)--The King Arthur legend told from the women’s perspectives.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Stoppard, 1967)—An absurdist version of Hamlet from two existential protagonists.
Snowball’s Chance (Reed, 2002)—A sequel to Animal Farm as the collective goes capitalist.
Ulysses (Tennyson, 1842) Poem exploring the aging Odysseus’ desire for travel and contempt for his homeland years after returning from his Odyssey. Available at http://www.gober.net/victorian/ulys
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Maguire, 1996)—the Wicked Witch’s story from the Wizard of Oz
Wide Sargasso Sea (Rhys, 1966). The life of the women in the attic in Jane Eyre—what brought her there and how she went mad.
The Wind Done Gone (Randall, 2001) Gone with the wind from the slave’s perspective
Overview (where I introduce the ideas and reasons why they should work),
Standards (where I list educational standards that relate to the unit),
Technology,
Resources,
Activities (Where I suggest plans), and
Assessment(guidance for grading)
My intro will start with these two paragraphs (this is very drafty) formatted next to each other (like parallel texts) and then I will discuss the convergence of teaching, learning, fanfic, and literature.
Left Column
Literary history is full of derivative and transformative works. It is so pervasive that it goes beyond a genre and can be seen across authors and periods in varying degrees of intensity, from antiquity to today. The Aenid is Vergil’s sequel to the Iliad, imagining what happens to the survivors of the decimated Troy. Boccacio, Chaucer, and Shakespeare all wrote stories about Troilus and Cressida, star-crossed lovers of the Trojan War. Though then never appear in Homer’s work, they have been put in Troy with missing scenes and alterative points of view on the war.
Milton’s Paradise Lost supplies missing scenes from the Bible and
Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Author’s Court mixes the universes of Arthurian Legend and Nineteenth Century industrialism.
More recent and self-consciously derivative examples are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Dead (Stoppard) and Grendel (Gardner). In fact, the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction went to March by Geradine Brooks the story of the missing father from Alcott’s Little Women.
Right Column
Fanfiction predates the Internet but has and grown and thrived online. Fans of particular books, movies, TV shows, and video games write extensions of these stories and then, read, revise, collaborate, and comment on them with fans who share their passion. Online blogging communities such as LiveJournal and sites such as Fanfiction.net have become have more than repositories of fanfiction.
They are communities of readers and writers, providing commentary, sharing enthusiasm, proofreading and collaborating on creative pieces. The fanfiction community has developed a jargon with words like fanon, Mary Sue, angstfic, and spackle—terms that facilitate communication and reinforce the sense of fandom. Fans write missing scenes, sequels, prequels, and versions of the story from other perspectives.
Though the most popular sources for fanfiction are Harry Potter and other fantasy and science fiction stories, works such as Pride and Predjuice, the Bible, and 1984 have been popular sources of Fanfiction.
Begining list of resources
Literature in the spirit of fanfic
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs (Scieszka, 1989)—Some students might be familiar with this book from their own childhoods. Even if they are not, it is a clear way to introduce the concept of derivative and transformative literature and multiple perspectives. This is a good example (though not quite an appropriate reading) for a discussion on the topic, though I would not order the books.
Ahab's Wife (Naslund, 1999). Story of the wife of Ahab.
Angel and Apostle ( Noyes , 2005) Young adult literature that focuses on Pearl’s life from child to young woman.
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (1999). Cinderella’s Step Sister’s Story.
Gertrude and Claudius (Updike, 2000)—A prequel to Hamlet focusing on the story of Hamlet’s mother and uncle.
Foe: A Novel (Coetzee, 1987)—Robinson Caruso from Friday’s perspective.
by J. M. Coetzee
Grendel (Gardner, 1971). The Dragon’s perspective of Beowulf.
A House-Boat on the Styx (Bangs, 1895)—the underworld peopled by literary and historic characters.
Mary Reilly 1990 The maid’s version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
The Mists of Avalon (Zimmer Bradley, 1982)--The King Arthur legend told from the women’s perspectives.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Stoppard, 1967)—An absurdist version of Hamlet from two existential protagonists.
Snowball’s Chance (Reed, 2002)—A sequel to Animal Farm as the collective goes capitalist.
Ulysses (Tennyson, 1842) Poem exploring the aging Odysseus’ desire for travel and contempt for his homeland years after returning from his Odyssey. Available at http://www.gober.net/victorian/ulys
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Maguire, 1996)—the Wicked Witch’s story from the Wizard of Oz
Wide Sargasso Sea (Rhys, 1966). The life of the women in the attic in Jane Eyre—what brought her there and how she went mad.
The Wind Done Gone (Randall, 2001) Gone with the wind from the slave’s perspective
