Embrace the opportunity to learn about and from people different from you.

Outside Your Own Realm
The literature you read reflects an amazing array of experiences from all sorts of people from many places, many times and many perspectives. Wow! What we can experience through literature!

Imagine seeing the shores of America for the first time. You can through literature.

Imagine the horror hearing the on-coming gunfire of a slave-hunter in a small village in Africa. You can through literature.

The wonder of literature is that you can see the eyes through the eyes of others. You can experience what you would never been able to experience. You see the other side, and get a glimpse of the other point of view. WOW!

Language Arts/Literature

Standard 2: The student responds critically to fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama (LA.E.2.3).

Objective 4: Knows ways in which literature reflects the diverse voices of people from various backgrounds.

Amusement Park Activity

From Different Perspectives- Write a poem about amusement parks from the perspective of the following people:

• A bright-eyed child
• An amusement park worker.
• A Tibetan Monk who has never left Nepal.
• A Texas beauty queen whose next competition is the next day at the park.
• A vegan member of PITA.
• The old lady in the shoe.
• Mickey Mouse

Did You Know?

Media Day for Walt Disney
World was perhaps one of
the worst openings of a park
in modern times. The moment
the gates opened almost everything
that could have gone wrong, went
wrong. The asphalt for much of the
park had been put down at 6:30
in the morning so people got their
shoes stuck in asphalt when they ran in.

Vocabulary

Diversity - Variety, difference, a
point or respect in which things
differ.

Literary Terms - A site
written and maintained by
Dr. Mary Ellen Van Camp
that includes plot and other
elements of fiction.

Literature: Constructing Plot
This educational website, from
Annenberg's Learner.org. includes
information on plot.