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Literature Links for Secondary
On the Fringe
- On the Fringe
Edited by Donald R. Gallo
- published by SPEAK, ©2003
- Who Do You Think You Are? Stories of Friends and Enemies
Edited by Hazel Rochmand & Darlene McCampbell
- published by Little, Brown and Company, ©1993
These are collections of short stories by authors such as John Updike, Toni Cade Bambara, M.E. Kerr, and Ray Bradbury that focus on outsiders and their struggles; they are a perfect vehicle for addressing differences (physical, emotional, socio-economic, and sexual). *Some of the stories are more mature than others.
Extension Activities:
- Encourage students to experiment with creative writing, voice, and style; ask students to:
- Write an alternate ending for one of the short stories in the collection.
- Write the story from an alternate perspective.
- Write their own contribution.
- Create a Voice Thread using a yearbook photograph. Ask students to create narratives from different perspectives that address social structures / expectations, etc. Don’t forget to discuss who isn’t pictured or what you can’t see...
- Differentiated instruction ideas: Use these projects as a way to assess students’ comprehension of the text, including literary devices.
- Adapt one story for film and create a video.
- Adapt a story for radio and create a radio play or write a song/score.
- Create a dust jacket for one of the stories.
- Turn one story into a graphic novel.
- Choose a character and create a glog on Glogster.
- Create a soundtrack for a story or a series of stories.
- Use graphic organizers to compare and contrast characters, plots, settings, symbols, and themes.
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