See the print worksheet handed out in class.
The task: Working in teams of 3-4, you'll identify at least 3 important facts about the topic your team is assigned. What do you think is important for you and your classmates to know?
Team roles: Identify one Notetaker who will write down your discoveries and one Presenter who will share out to the class. Everyone is a Site Explorer but you might find it easiest to have one person navigate around the website.
Purpose: This activity is meant to encourage you to explore the resources available on the library website.
The result: In addition to sharing your discoveries, take notes about what your classmates have found. By the end, you should have all the squares filled out.
The task: For this activity, working in pairs, select and analyze any ONE of the following scholarly articles. View or download the PDF of the article you choose and work together to answer the questions in the worksheet.
Team roles: Just one of you needs to fill out the worksheet. Be prepared to share out with the class.
Purpose: This activity is meant to help familiarize you with some components of a typical scholarly article.
Article 1: Binney, S. H. (2018). How ‘the old stories persist’: Folklore in literature after postmodernism. C21 Literature, 6(2).
Article 2: Ermacora, D., Labanti, R., & Marcon, A. (2016). Towards a critical anthology of pre-modern bosom serpent folklore. Folklore, 127(3), 286–304.
Article 3: Gao, J. (2015). Promoting “low culture”: The origins of the modern Chinese folklore movement. Canadian Journal of History, 50(1), 3–29.
Article 4: Lindsay, J. (2016). The magic and science of Grimm: A television fairy tale for modern Americans. Humanities, 5(2), 34-.
Article 5: Vieira, E. R. P. (2017). “Princesa”: Re-gendering and politicizing the fairy tale in contemporary migrants’ artistic productions. The International Journal of New Media, Technology and the Arts, 12(1), 19–29.