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- ISSN: 0360-9170
- E-ISSN: 1943-2402
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Textual Borderlands: Students’ Recontextualizations in Writing Children’s Books
- Source: Language Arts, Volume 83, Issue 1, Sep 2005, p. 42 - 51
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- 01 Sep 2005
Abstract
This article examines a children’s book writing workshop for middle school students of color in which 12 girls participated. The curriculum was developed to create intersections between students’ in- and out-of-school lives. The students’ writing within the workshop is analyzed by unpacking their “recontextualizations”; of settings, characters, language, and popular culture.
© 2005 by the National Council of Teachers of English