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Unit IX The Seasonal
Round and Life Cycles Resources
Find below resources helpful for Unit IX
lessons. Specific resources are also listed in individual lessons. More
resources may be found online in the Louisiana
Folklife Bibliography.
- Ancona, George. Fiesta USA.
Lodestar Books, 1995. Photos with some text on four Latino celebrations
in the U.S., $15.99.
- Anderson, David. Kwanzaa: An
Everyday Resource Guide. Gumbs and Thomas Publishers, 1992. Teacher
resource with activities, music, literature on celebrating Kwanzaa,
$15.
- Beeler, Shelby B. Throw Your Tooth
on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from Around the World. Houghton
Mifflin, 1998. Teeth may be the same around the world, but students in
lower grades will enjoy seeing what children from other countries do
when they lose a tooth, $16.
- Bruhac, Joseph, et al. Thirteen
Moons on Turtle's Back: A Native American Year of Moons. Paper Star,
reprint, 1997. A picture book of poems based on different Native
American traditions for each of the 13 moons of the year, grades K-4,
$5.99.
- CARTS Newsletter, Vol 3 1999, National Task Force on Folk Arts in
Education and City Lore. This issue features intergenerational stories
and activities by teachers and folklorists.
- Cobblestone Publishing. Faces: People, Places, and Cultures.
This magazine full of illustrations, activities, and information for
students in grades 4-9 concentrates on different cultures and cultural
practices around the world. One-year subscription of 9 issues, $26.95.
Back issues feature many topics related to the seasonal round and cycle
of life, $4.95 each, 800/821-0115.
- Davis, Shari and Benny Ferdman.
Nourishing the Heart: A Guide to Intergenerational Arts Projects in the
Schools. City Lore, 114 pp., 1993. Encourages bringing senior
citizens into classrooms to engage young and old in joint ventures to
recreate their own and their communities' cultural heritage in visual
arts, theater, and writing projects, all grades, $10.
- Deetz, James. "Remember Me As You Pass
By, "In Small Things Forgotten: The Archaeology of Early American
Life. Anchor Books, 1977, revised and expanded, 1996,
$11.95.
- Doros, Arthur. Tonight Is
Carnaval. Puffin Books, 1995. Picture book illustrated with
appliquéd cloths portrays a Peruvian boy's day as he prepares for
Carnaval, the Latin American version of Mardi Gras, K-4,
$4.99.
- Dresser, Norine. Multicultural
Celebrations. Random House, 1999. A folklorist who has written
extensively on contemporary customs, Dresser offers background and rules
of etiquette for celebrations of many cultural groups living in this
country, $15.
- Dresser, Norine. Multicultural
Manners. John Wiley & Sons, 1996. Teachers and students can
research ways to avoid cross-cultural misunderstandings and learn
customs of various cultural groups, $14.95.
- Feldman, Eve B. Birthdays!
Celebrating Life Around the World. Bridgewater Books, 1996.
Children's drawings of birthdays around the world with simple rhymes for
children 4-8, $14.95.
- Florence, Robert. New Orleans
Cemeteries: Life in the Cities of the Dead. Batture Press, New
Orleans, 1997. This photography book includes much of the folklore of
New Orleans cemeteries.
- Gaudet, Marcia. "Charlene Richard: Folk
Veneration Among the Cajuns," Southern Folklore, Vol. 51, no. 2,
1994, pp. 253-166.
- Gaudet, Marcia. "Christmas Bonfires in
South Louisiana: Tradition and Innovation," Southern Folklore,
Vol. 47, 1990, pp. 195-206.
- Gaudet, Marcia. "The New Orleans King
Cake in Southwest Louisiana," Mid-America Folklore, Fall 1989,
pp. 114-121.
- Gaudet, Marcia. Tales from the
Levee. Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern
Louisiana, 1984. See chapters one and two, The Calendar Year--Holiday
Tradition and Lore and Rites of Passage: Birth Courtship, Marriage,
Death.
- Gibbons, Gail. Happy Birthday!
Holiday House, 1987. Picture book for students 4-8 examining birthday
traditions, $15.95.
- Gillis, Candida. The Community as
Classroom. Heinemann, 1992. Teacher resource for encouraging
students' insight into and work with elders and community,
$23.
- Hamilton, Virginia. In the
Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World. Harcourt Brace,
reprint 1991. This Newberry winner has 25 creation myths for grades 3-8
and a useful bibliography, $18.
- Hand, Wayland D., ed. American Folk
Medicine. UCLA Press, 1976, paperback 1980. Although out of print,
libraries may have this useful resource.
- Hansen, Joyce and Gary McGowan.
Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York's African
Burial Ground. Holt, 1998. A thorough look at the process of
discovering history through anthropology and archaeology in the newly
discovered slave graveyard, grades 6-12, $16.95.
- Holm, Sharon Lane. Happy Birthday
Everywhere. Millbrook Press, 1997. This collection of birthday
celebrations in 19 countries for grades 4-8 includes recipes, crafts,
games, and the birthday song in nine languages, $23.
- Johnson, Dinah, photographs by Richard
Samuel Roberts. All Around Town: The Photographs of Richard Samuel
Roberts. Holt, 1998. Simple text and striking photographs illustrate
the lives of African American citizens of Columbia, SC in the 1920s and
1930s. Features weddings, families, people at work and play, grades K-8,
$15.95.
- Kindersley, Barnabas and Anabel.
Children Just Like Me: Celebrations. DK Publishing, 1997. Vivid
color photographs detail foods, clothing, traditions, and the words of
children bring children's festivals worldwide to life. Includes a
calendar of celebrations, grades 3-8, $17.95.
- Krasno, Rena. Kneeling Caribou and
Dancing Giants: Celebrating Filipino Festivals. Pacific View, 1997.
From Christmas to Ramadan, the incredibly diverse cultural groups of the
Phillippines have many celebrations, grades 4-12, $19.95.
- Lindahl, Carl, Maida Owens, and C.
Renée Harvison, eds. Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana.
University
Press of Mississippi and Louisiana Division of the Arts, 1997.
Order hardbacks from the Press, 3825 Ridgewood Rd., Jackson, MS 39211,
800/737-7788, $45 hardback, add $5 for shipping and handling for first
book and $0.75 for each additional book.Order paperbacks from
bookstores.
- Luenn, Nancy. Celebrations of Light:
A Year of Holidays Around the Year. Atheneum, 1998. Bold
illustrations and short explanations of a celebration of light for each
month, grades 4-8, $14.
- Maestro, Betsy. The Story of Clocks
and Calendars: Marking a Millennium. Lothrop/Harper Collins, 2000.
Describes clocks and calendars of many cultures and times. Grades 4-8,
$16.
- McKissick Museum. Jubilation!
African American Celebration in the Southeast: An Educator's Guide.
University of South Carolina, 53 pp., 1993. Published for an exhibit,
this guide can stand alone and includes lesson plans, photos, and lists
of resources. Available from the museum, USC, Columbia, SC 29208,
803/777-7251, $10.
- National Council for Social Studies. Order
annotated bibliographies of many culturally diverse teacher resources
for each of the ten themes of the NCSS Curriculum Standards--or read
online, 3501 Newark St., NW, Washington, DC 20016, 202/966-7840. http://www.ncss.org
- Onyefulu, Ifeoma. Grandfather's
Work: A Traditional Healer in Nigeria. Millbrook, 1998. A child
describes the work of his grandfather, a traditional healer in a
present-day Nigerian village, grades K-4, $19.90.
- Palkovich, Ann. "Exploring Historic Cemeteries,"
AnthroNotes. Vol. 20, no. 2, Winter 1998, pp. 8-12. Get on
the mailing list for this free educators' journal by contacting the
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Anthropology Outreach Office, NHB
363 MRC 112, Washington, DC 20560, or email:anthroutreach@si.edu Issues online.
- Parker, David L. Stolen Dreams:
Portraits of Working Children. Lerner, 1997. The plight of child
laborers in developing countries is documented in this moving text.
Superb black and white photographs of each child accompany the text,
grades 8-12, $19.95
- Perlstein, Susan and Jeff Bliss.
Generating Community. Elders Share the Arts, 1994. This New York
City organization has linked elders and young people for many years
through the arts and folklife. This 64-page teacher resource for all
grades shares methods, plans, presentations, and more, $15; video also
available, $25.
- Pitre, Glen, director, Good for What Ails You. Louisiana Public
Broadcasting, 1998. A 60-minute video available from LPB 7733 Perkins
Rd., Baton Rouge, LA 70810, 800/973-7246, $24.95. Explore the film's
online study guide.
- Santino, Jack. All Around the Year:
Holidays and Celebrations in American Life. University of Illinois
Press, 1994. Good teacher resource that older students can use for
research on old and new holidays, including several Louisiana
celebrations, $19.95.
- Santino, Jack. New Old-Fashioned
Ways: Holidays and Popular Culture. University of Tennessee Press,
1996. A teacher resource examining the many ways popular commercial
culture influences traditional holidays.
- Sexton, Rocky. "A
Kinder, Gentler St. Nicholas: Transformation and Meaning in a 'Louisiana
German' Tradition." Southern Folklore. Vol. 56, no. 2,
1999, pp. 149-160. An article for teachers and older students on
Louisiana German traditions in Robert's Cove.
- Slovenz, Madeline, et al. Lion
Dancer: Ernie Wan's New Year. Scholastic reprint, 1991. Vivid color
photos follow a boy through a New York City Chinese New Year
celebration, K-5, $3.95.
- Wesley, Valerie. Freedom's Gifts: A
Juneteenth Story. Simon and Schuster, 1997. The African American
tradition celebrating Juneteenth is the setting for this tale of renewed
understanding of the joy of freedom when a Northern girl visits her
Southern family, grades K-4, $16.
- Westridge Young Writers Workshop.
Kids Explore America's African American Heritage. John Muir
Publications, reprint 1996. Kids write for other kids about
celebrations, foods, folktales, music, history, and more, grades 4-9,
$9.95.
- Wiggins, William. O Freedom:
Afro-American Emancipation Celebrations. University of Tennessee
Press, 1987. A scholarly collection that explores Juneteenth and other
emancipation traditions.
- Wilkinson, Philip. A Celebration of
Customs and Rituals of the World. Facts on File, 1996. A vast array
of historical and contemporary celebrations and life cycle events from
every corner written for young adults with a voice that avoids
ethnocentrism, $40.
- Wilson, Charles, et al. The
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. UNC Press, 1989. This large,
accessible volume covers hundreds of topics, useful for older students
and teachers, available in many public libraries, 1,656 pages,
$69.95.
- Woods, Michael and Mary B. Ancient
Medicine: From Sorcery to Surgery. Runestone/Lerner, 2000.
Background on medical practices from the Stone Age to Ancient Rome.
Grades 5-8, $26.
- Zeitlin, Steve, et al. A Celebration
of American Family Folklore. Pantheon Books, 1982. A full selection
of family stories, customs, and photos for K-12 teachers to help
students start family writing, oral history, and folklife projects,
$11.
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