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Things Jolie needs to do before she bites it
\"Jolie's a lot of things, but she knows that pretty isn't one of them. She has mandibular prognathism, which is the medical term for underbite. Chewing is a pain, headaches are a common occurrence, and she's never been kissed. She's months out from having a procedure to correct her underbite, and she cannot wait to be fixed. Jolie becomes paralyzed with the fear that she could die under the knife. She and her best friends, Evelyn and Derek, decide to make a \"Things Jolie Needs to Do Before She Bites It (Which Is Super Unlikely, but Still, It Could Happen)\" list. Things like: eat every appetizer on the Applebee's menu and kiss her crush Noah Reed. But since when did everything ever go exactly to plan? Filled with humor, heart--and an honest look at today's beauty standards--Jolie's journey is a true feel-good story\"--Jacket flap.
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Pedagogy of the Living Dead: Using Students' Prior Knowledge to Explore Perspective
One reason zombie films are so frightening, and perhaps so popular, is because zombies represent a unique type of monster. Rather than frightening people because they are so alien to the world as people understand it, zombies are horrifying in how closely they resemble people. Zombies are people and represent the potential of zombie characteristics in everyone, which is simultaneously scary and revealing. Zombies and other undead denizens can provide for meaningful scaffolding onto knowledge that students already possess. In this article, the author describes how he incorporated zombies into his classroom to liven up his students' study of cultural knowledge, debates about human rights, and literary analysis. (Contains 1 note.)
Journal Article
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Patricia Sheridan column
From an artist's perspective, being able to be creative and support your idea or even in business to be able to commit to a project you know the audience will relate to is the part that I get off on. When you reach that point, you start to focus on philanthropy because people who help people resonate the strongest in their absence.
Newsletter
Reading in the Dark, Sleeping with the Lights On
The University Press of Mississippi's Children's Literary Association series (edited by Jackie Horne), since its launch in 2012, has covered an impressive variety of topics ranging from collective authorship in the golden age of children's literature to comic books for dual audiences, historical materialist perspectives on children's literature, and posthumanism in contemporary young adult (YA) fiction. The nine case studies authored by an international crew of established and emerging scholars analyze picturebooks, fairy tales, YA dystopias, and monster movies to demonstrate the pedagogically beneficial potential of scary stories, and to prove, in agreement with the volume's motto, that \"horror stories provide a playground in which children (and adults) can play at fear. Critical collections, like Reading in Dark, help us realize that children's/YA literature has always been engaged with serious, \"adult\" sociopolitical concerns and taboo topics like trauma, loss, and death (think of classics like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Adventures of Huck Finn, The Wizard of 0¾ The Tittle Prince, or The Moomins); and that the honest discussion of these all-too-human experiences is perhaps a more efficient way of educating young people about the world they live in than shielding them from the unpleasant aspects of our vulnerable mortal existence. Despite the increasing number of children's/YA books dealing with delicate taboo topics as \"unspeakable\" as transgender identity, mental illness or incest; and the relentless commodification of pleasurable thrills by Disney theme park rides and 3D CGI blockbusters, the place of horror in children's culture remains a controversial issue because of the immediate violent corporeal reactions triggered by (and primarily associated with) the genre, a sensation we do not wish to expose our youngsters to.
Book Review
The Lure of Horror
When a horror story works for us it does so on a purely visceral level-- it is an emotional and spiritual response.
Magazine Article