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Unit VIII The Worlds of
Work and Play
Resources
Find below resources helpful for Unit VIII
lessons. Specific resources are also listed in individual lessons. More
resources may be found online in the Louisiana
Folklife Bibliography.
Aber, Lee. Something Nobody Else
Has: The Story of Turtle Trapping in Louisiana. Hawksbill Productions,
1984. A 30-minute video documenting the alligator snapping turtle and the
people who trap, study, and try to protect it. Good for secondary
classrooms. Available for loan from the State Library of Louisiana or for
purchase from Hawksbill Productions, 734 Cheatwood Road, Ruston, LA 71270,
318/255-7505.
- Allamel, Frederic. 1999. Houma
Indian Arts. Exhibit Catalog. n.p.
- Bain, Bev. Using Whole Language
Strategies, Cooperative Learning, and Flexible Groupings to Strengthen
Reading and Writing Instruction: Resource Handbook. Washington State
Bureau of Education and Research, 1989. Order from the bureau, P.O. Box
96068, Bellevue, WA 98009, 206/453-1500.
- Blake, Clifford. "Cornbread for Your
Husband and Biscuits for Your Man: Mr. Clifford Blake, Sr., Calls the
Cotton Press." Louisiana Folklife Recordings, 1980, LP 0001, available
from the Louisiana Folklife Center.
- Blank, Les. Always for Pleasure.
Flower Films, 1978. A 58-minute video looking at various New Orleans
activities and related aspects of lifestyle. From jazz funerals to food
to parades to Mardi Gras, it offers a wide perspective of New Orleans
life and fun, with an emphasis on street life and street perspectives.
Film as a whole is not recommended for the classroom, but certain
segments are beneficial. Available through State Library and Flower
Films and Video, 10341 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito, CA 94530,
415/525-0942
- Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana. Red Shoe's
People: A History of the Sovereign Nation of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, 1992. Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, Elton, LA.
- DiSalvo-Ryan, DyAnne. City
Green. William Morrow, 1994. A girl works with neighbors to create a
community garden. Grades K-4, $16.
- Green, Archie. Only a Miner.
University of Illinois Press, 1972. A classic occupational folklore text
that teachers and older students would find useful.
- Gregory, H. F., and Donald W. Hatley,
eds. 1992. Splittin' on the Grain: North Louisiana Crafts
Alexandria, LA Museum of Art.
- Gundaker, Grey, ed. Keep Your Head
to the Sky: Interpreting African American Home Ground. University
Press of Virginia, 1998. Teacher resource.
- Kniffen, Fred, H. F. Gregory, and
George A. Stokes. The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana: From 1542
to the Present. LSU, 1987.
- Langley, Linda, Susan Lejeune, and
Claude Oubre, eds. Folklife Series. LSU at Eunice. Each issue features a
Coushatta tradition bearer. Les Raconteurs: Treasure Lore and
More, Vol. 1, 1995; Les Artistes: Crafters Tell Their Tales.
Vol. 2, 1996; Les Reveil des Fetes: Revitalized Celebrations and
Performance Traditions, Vol. 3, 1997; Les Vieux Temps: Recreation
and Family Traditions in Southwest Louisiana Vol. 4, 1998. Series
copies available from P.O. Box 1129, Eunice, LA 70535 or 318/457-7311,
ext 308.
- Lawrence, Jacob. The Great
Migration: An American Story. Harper Trophy, 1995. Over 60 of
Lawrence's paintings illustrate African Americans' journey from the
South to find work in the big cities of the North beginning in 1916,
grades 3-8, $23.50.
- Lester, Julius. John Henry. Dial
Books, 1994. Jerry Pinkney illustrated this retelling of the African
American folk hero's life for elementary students,
$16.99.
- Levine, Lawrence. Black Culture and
Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to
Freedom. Oxford University Press, 1977. A historian employs folklore
to analyze African American history and thought in this vital, highly
readable teacher resource, which analyzes many genres, including work
songs.
- Medford, Claude, Jr., H. F. Gregory,
and Don Sepulvado. The Old Ways Live: The Claude Medford, Jr.
Collection. Northwestern Louisiana State University, Williamson
Museum, 1990. Available from the Williamson Museum, Northwestern State
University, Natchitoches, LA 71497, 318/357-4364.
- Mire, Pat. Dance for a Chicken: The
Cajun Mardi Gras. Pat Mire, 1993. A 57-minute video which looks at
rural Cajun Mardi Gras and the tradition of masked and costumed revelers
going from house to house gathering ingredients for a communal gumbo.
Good for secondary classrooms.
Mire, Pat and Charles Bush.
Anything I Catch: The Handfishing Story. Pat Mire and Charles
Bush, 1990. A 28-minute video examining the regional phenomenon of
Cajuns who wade in the bayou to catch catfish and turtles with their
bare hands. Good for classroom use. Available for loan through the
State Library of Louisiana.
- Moore, Patricia, "Growing Up
Southern: An Interdisciplinary Project Exploring Family Stories Based
on Selected Works of Art by Benny Andrews," Art Education, Vol.
52, no. 1, January 1999, pp. 25-31, available from National Art
Education Association, 703/836-8000, $9. Includes color reproductions
of Andrews' paintings of people at work in the South.
- Morris, Oradel Nolen. I Hear the
Song of the Houmas/J'Entends La Chanson Des Houmas. Paupieres
Publishing Co., Houma, LA, 1992.
- Roach, Susan, ed. On My Way: The
Arts of Sarah Albritton. Louisiana Tech University, 1998. This
book full of color prints features writing by the artist and scholars
and was published in conjunction with a major exhibit of her work. The
artist chronicles each painting in her own words. Available from University Press
of Mississippi, 3825 Ridgewood Rd., Jackson, MS 39211,
800/737-7788, $15.
- Snyder, Luella and Steve Knudsen.
Of Sugar Cane and Syrup. Perspective Film, 1977. A 15-minute
documentary focusing on the Stribling family as they make sugar cane
for their own use. Available for loan through the State Library of
Louisiana.
- Terkel, Studs. Hard Times: An Oral
History of the Great Depression. Pantheon reissue, 1986. Older
students may appreciate reading of joblessness and hard times,
$13.
- Terkel, Studs. Working. New
Press reissue, 1997. A classic collection of people's conversations
about work for older students.
- Westmacott, Richard.
African-American Gardens and Yards in the Rural South.
University of Tennessee Press, 1992. Teacher resource.
- Wilson, Charles Reagan and William
Ferris, eds. Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. University of
North Carolina Press, 1989. Includes concise essays on all aspects of
the South. Available in many public libraries, 1,656 pages,
$69.95.
Unit VIII Outline
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