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.
Seems like it might be okay.
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