Monday, September 28, 2015

Adaptation Sources (The Lorax) Matt Villarreal


Rankin-Gouthro, E., & Krantzberg, G. (2011). The Lorax Can Win: Using Scenario Building to Create A

New Vision and Invigorate An Activist Agenda" for the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Basin. Electronic Green Journal, 1(31), 1-22.

This article explains the identities of how The Lorax the film uses a metaphor of how humans let their greed overpower the environment. This article relates more to an environmental aspect, than it does to the actual movie. The article begins explaining the troubles that are occurring with the Great Lakes and how human interaction in the north is starting to affect the wellbeing of these natural bodies of water. It also goes on to explain that the movie itself reflects the economy as being the most important thing in our society, even if that means that it is going to destroy our environment. We tend to focus on the right now versus the soon to come after. This article also goes on to explain other symbolism that this children’s genre movie The Lorax takes action on.

HOLM, D. (2012). EXPLORING ENVIRONMENTAL EMPATHY IN ACTION WITH CHILDREN'S BOOKS.  Reading Improvement, 49(4), 134-139.

This article explains the idea of exposing children to this kind of empathy that the book is trying to portray. This book is trying to get young children to feel compassionate with their Earthly surroundings along with trying to expose this to the children at a young age. They not only use The Lorax but they also talk about other children’s books such as The Empty Lot, The Wheel on the School and Just a dream. These are all fiction novels that portray this feeling of empathy. The article goes even further to explain the nonfiction books that take on the same sort of challenge. Lastly the article goes on to talk about children and their best learning capabilities along with a conclusion on how they can contribute to these types of texts.

Rule, A., & Atkinson, J. (1994). Choosing picture books about ecology. Reading Teacher, 47(7), 586.

This article pairs with the one above, basing kids to learn off of these sentimental picture books that can make younger children feel more connected to what they are reading, especially the books that come with nice big pictures for them to visualize scenes. A lot of these books provide clear steps on how to take action on saving the forests and the environment, this is why they have such an emphasis on this audience. It talks about the condemning of the great forests, it begins to talk about pollution and how these types of world dilemmas are too aggressive to just throw in the face of a younger child, so they create these types of novels to expose these problems. Not only do these books do convey these powerful messages, but they also contain an interesting story line to keep the reader involved in the story.

 Taylor, D. A. (1997). Saving the forest for the trees. Environment, 39(1), 6.

This reference provides more of the actual science and usage of what can come from the environment. Instead of tearing down things to make more money for the economy, this article suggests that we use our resources and get the benefits from them.

Gardner, H. (1993). Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice. New York, NY: BasicBooks. - See more

at: http://www.abilitypath.org/areas-of-development/learning--schools/learning-and-teaching-styles/articles/childrens-learning-styles.html#sthash.5hFgN9NO.dpuf

This website provides a great understanding of how children tend to learn. It provides patterns that children tend to follow along with all of their main learning styles. These learning styles can actually be applicable to any audience and don’t often change all that much. It also provides specific learning styles and how to test children for which type they are most accustomed to. These styles are visual, auditory, tactile and kinesthetic.

Gutter, R. (n.d.). The Lorax Can Teach Kids Important Service Lessons. Retrieved September 29, 2015,


This article explains the connection that younger kids can gather from the specific movie The Lorax. This can relate to things such as noticing things in their neighborhood such as trash on the ground, or someone littering at the neighborhood park. This can inspire them to make a difference in themselves and their own community even at such a young age.

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