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Title: EXCERPT FROM: WON, A NOVEL.
Creator: Ellenbogen, Jenna, Pugh, Tison, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: High school is bad enough with cliques, coursework, and the impending threat of college � now some old evil is coming to Solomon Starek High School (SSH for short). It's up to transfer student Ella, older than time and unthinkably powerful, to stop it. Ella's certainly up to the task, but the world's changed since the last time she was in it. Society has merged magic with science, and Ella's not sure she's up for that. Can her new classmates help her stop what's coming, or will they fall...
Show moreHigh school is bad enough with cliques, coursework, and the impending threat of college � now some old evil is coming to Solomon Starek High School (SSH for short). It's up to transfer student Ella, older than time and unthinkably powerful, to stop it. Ella's certainly up to the task, but the world's changed since the last time she was in it. Society has merged magic with science, and Ella's not sure she's up for that. Can her new classmates help her stop what's coming, or will they fall short? This excerpt tracks Ella's first days at school, and sets the stage for the chaos to come.
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Date Issued: 2016
Identifier: CFH2000105, ucf:45526
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH2000105

Title: THE EFFECTS OF LITERATURE ON STUDENT MOTIVATION AND CONNECTIONS IN MATHEMATICS.
Creator: Washington, Arnita, Dixon, Juli, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of literature use in the middle grades mathematics curriculum on student motivation and connections. This study involved collecting several types of data regarding students' attitudes, motivation, and their abilities to make real-world connections. Findings from pre and post attitude surveys indicated that literature use in the mathematics curriculum has no effect on students' attitudes towards mathematics. Furthermore, findings from...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to determine the effects of literature use in the middle grades mathematics curriculum on student motivation and connections. This study involved collecting several types of data regarding students' attitudes, motivation, and their abilities to make real-world connections. Findings from pre and post attitude surveys indicated that literature use in the mathematics curriculum has no effect on students' attitudes towards mathematics. Furthermore, findings from journal entries, students' work, and interview responses indicate that although students find storybooks fun and interesting, their use does not seem to lead to increases in students' understanding of mathematics. However, findings from journal entries, students' work and interview responses indicated that students were better able to make real-world connections through storybooks that were meaningful to their lives. Suggestions for future research should include comparative studies on the effects of literature on student performance in middle grades mathematics.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: CFE0000390, ucf:46334
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0000390

Title: THE EFFECTS OF LITERATURE ON STUDENT MOTIVATION AND CONNECTIONS IN MATHEMATHICS.
Creator: Washington, Arnita, Dixon, Juli, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of literature use in the middle grades mathematics curriculum on student motivation and connections. This study involved collecting several types of data regarding students' attitudes, motivation, and their abilities to make real-world connections. Findings from pre and post attitude surveys indicated that literature use in the mathematics curriculum has no effect on students' attitudes towards mathematics. Furthermore, findings from...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to determine the effects of literature use in the middle grades mathematics curriculum on student motivation and connections. This study involved collecting several types of data regarding students' attitudes, motivation, and their abilities to make real-world connections. Findings from pre and post attitude surveys indicated that literature use in the mathematics curriculum has no effect on students' attitudes towards mathematics. Furthermore, findings from journal entries, students' work, and interview responses indicate that although students find storybooks fun and interesting, their use does not seem to lead to increases in students' understanding of mathematics. However, findings from journal entries, students' work and interview responses indicated that students were better able to make real-world connections through storybooks that were meaningful to their lives. Suggestions for future research should include comparative studies on the effects of literature on student performance in middle grades mathematics.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: CFE0000382, ucf:46327
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0000382

Title: EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES AND RESOURCES FOR INTEGRATINGQUALITY CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN INTERMEDIATE SOCIALSTUDIES INSTRUCTION.
Creator: Locke, Priscilla, Hoffman, Elizabeth, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: For many educators in intermediate grades, the challenge is to find ways to introduce material in an engaging and meaningful way prior to students reading the textbook. Rather than having students read solely from a textbook, some educators have begun incorporating literature in the classroom in order to introduce material, to help students connect to prior knowledge. As time has passed social studies curriculum has been Teachers have an important role and responsibility to connect students...
Show moreFor many educators in intermediate grades, the challenge is to find ways to introduce material in an engaging and meaningful way prior to students reading the textbook. Rather than having students read solely from a textbook, some educators have begun incorporating literature in the classroom in order to introduce material, to help students connect to prior knowledge. As time has passed social studies curriculum has been Teachers have an important role and responsibility to connect students to the curriculum that they are required to learn. One of the best ways to do this is by capturing their interests and tapping their prior knowledge through the use of quality children's literature. After observing intermediate social studies instruction in local classrooms, what is being done in the classroom and what they might need to enhance this process, I developed a guide for educators that may want additional resources and ideas for using quality literature in social studies instruction. This guide included instructional strategies, sample lessons, suggested quality literature and classroom activities to assist educators in helping students make connections and understand the content of social studies curriculum.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: CFH0004452, ucf:45132
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004452

Title: WE WILL MAKE YOUR HEAD EXPLODE.
Creator: Sullivan, Jaclyn, Jensen, Toni, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: We Will Make Your Head Explode is a collection of short fiction stories that explore themes of friendship, family, love, lust, jealousy, loyalty, and disappointment. The characters in these stories are utterly human; they are pushed, pulled, and often fall victim to circumstance. A woman grapples between her love of roadside attractions and her boyfriendÃ‚Â's grief. A son is forced to decide whether or not to honor his motherÃ‚Â's final wishes. A...
Show moreWe Will Make Your Head Explode is a collection of short fiction stories that explore themes of friendship, family, love, lust, jealousy, loyalty, and disappointment. The characters in these stories are utterly human; they are pushed, pulled, and often fall victim to circumstance. A woman grapples between her love of roadside attractions and her boyfriendÃ‚Â's grief. A son is forced to decide whether or not to honor his motherÃ‚Â's final wishes. A college student is blind to her brotherÃ‚Â's evolution beyond their family. A woman discovers new possibilities while stalking graveyards to escape the memory of a man who left her behind. A teenager on the run findsÃ‚Â--and losesÃ‚Â--her first love. As desperately as they struggle to control their situations, their love lives, their families, and their emotions, they are often faced with simply having to come to terms with their realities. These eleven stories are intended to examine the ways people are capable of treating each other, both good and bad, and how people deal with the inevitably of being forced to move beyond what seems permanent, to create new identities, to laugh, and to learn from their mistakes.
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Date Issued: 2010
Identifier: CFE0003035, ucf:48356
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0003035

Title: Readers' Theatre: Communication Aiding Learning in the Elementary School.
Creator: Baker, Mary F., Buchanan, Raymond W., College of Humanities and Fine Arts
Abstract / Description: Florida Technological University College of Humanities and Fine Arts Thesis
Date Issued: 1972
Identifier: CFR0012152, ucf:53125
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFR0012152

Title: Everyday Monsters: Stories.
Creator: Druckenmiller, Brian, Poissant, David, Thaxton, Terry, Roney, Lisa, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: These seven short stories explore characters either at war with themselves or living in a delusion, unaware that their skewed sense of self projects a subjective version of the universe. When one operates in a world that doesn't quite exist, their real world is destined to crumble, and, for many of these characters, the challenge is understanding the mirage's existence before it's too late. By slightly bending the parameters of reality as well as inviting these characters and conflicts into...
Show moreThese seven short stories explore characters either at war with themselves or living in a delusion, unaware that their skewed sense of self projects a subjective version of the universe. When one operates in a world that doesn't quite exist, their real world is destined to crumble, and, for many of these characters, the challenge is understanding the mirage's existence before it's too late. By slightly bending the parameters of reality as well as inviting these characters and conflicts into absurdity, Everyday Monsters offers wholly unique commentary on familiar struggles, including marriage, occupation, grief, destiny, and societal expectations.
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Date Issued: 2017
Identifier: CFE0006588, ucf:51305
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0006588

Title: USING YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE TO TEACH THE CLASSICS: A STUDY ON PAIRING YOUNG ADULT NOVELS WITH THE CLASSIC WORKS IN SECONDARY ENGLISH CLASSROOMS.
Creator: Velazquez, Deanna, Kaplan, Jeffrey, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: Young adult literature is a genre of literature that is often overlooked. Adolescents would greatly benefit from reading young adult novels, academically and also for enjoyment. Educators are not using young adult literature as often as they should in the classrooms as a tool, due to strict curricula. However, young adult literature is a perfect tool for aiding with comprehension of the classic works. Pairing certain young adult books with classics would help adolescents understand the...
Show moreYoung adult literature is a genre of literature that is often overlooked. Adolescents would greatly benefit from reading young adult novels, academically and also for enjoyment. Educators are not using young adult literature as often as they should in the classrooms as a tool, due to strict curricula. However, young adult literature is a perfect tool for aiding with comprehension of the classic works. Pairing certain young adult books with classics would help adolescents understand the classic novel, but also assist in intriguing the student enough to pick up both books. After an online survey given to nine Seminole County school English or Reading teachers, I found that high school teachers today do feel as though young adult literature would benefit the students greatly.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: CFH0003819, ucf:44732
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0003819

Title: CONTACT.
Creator: Osbourne, Brittany, Jensen, Toni, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: ABSTRACT This fiction novel focuses on the Sankofa philosophy that we as human beings must learn from our past to better understand our current existence and future; however, sometimes we choose to ignore or suppress the past because remembering it may be too hurtful. When we forget what happened yesterday our outlook on today and tomorrow becomes distorted. Contact is a novel that attempts to explore how Ã‚Â"living in the nowÃ‚Â" alone becomes problematic...
Show moreABSTRACT This fiction novel focuses on the Sankofa philosophy that we as human beings must learn from our past to better understand our current existence and future; however, sometimes we choose to ignore or suppress the past because remembering it may be too hurtful. When we forget what happened yesterday our outlook on today and tomorrow becomes distorted. Contact is a novel that attempts to explore how Ã‚Â"living in the nowÃ‚Â" alone becomes problematic because the pastÃ‚Â--if not rememberedÃ‚Â--will come back to haunt you. The erasure of the line between Diasporic Africans and their African past is the primary theme explored. The writer deconstructs how living in the now is indeed living in the past because the past and present, in the life of Tufa, become one. Reincarnation serves as the vehicle to explore this theme. Tufa, known for her aberrant behavior, is the reincarnation Afua AtaÃƒÂ¡Ã‚Â--an Ashanti woman who survived the Maafa, or Transatlantic Slave Trade. Past love, hate, dishonor, rivalry, pain, and hope complicate the Ã‚Â"ordinarinessÃ‚Â" of TufaÃ‚Â's teenage life. The novel is divided into a prologue and eight chapters. The bulk of each chapter follows TufaÃ‚Â's current life and ends with a vignette told by five African women, one being Afua AtaÃƒÂ¡. Each vignette paints in broad strokes the landscape and historical moments of the Maafa. The present becomes complicated when traces of the Maafa seep into TufaÃ‚Â's life. Some of these traces are culturally specific rather than unique to Tufa. However, other traces are uniquely shaped by TufaÃ‚Â's former life. People from her past disrupt her current life by their presence. Their disruption takes many formsÃ‚Â--some of it brings pain and some of it brings joy. By reading TufaÃ‚Â's story, others may find the strength to confront their past when it makes contact with their present. Like Tufa, we must confront the pain in our past to experience its joy.
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Date Issued: 2010
Identifier: CFE0002987, ucf:47939
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0002987

Title: BRINGING JOHN GREEN TO SCHOOLS: INCORPORATING YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE IN A SECONDARY ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS CLASSROOM.
Creator: Adams, Emily, Kaplan, Jeffrey, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: As educators and administrators continue to struggle with the low literacy proficiency rates in this country, a new genre of literature is making its way into the classroom. Young Adult Literature, such as the works of John Green, are becoming a more familiar sight inside the classroom. However, some parents, educators, and members of the school districts are not happy with this new trend. In the last year, alone, young adult books have been challenged hundreds of times in hopes of getting...
Show moreAs educators and administrators continue to struggle with the low literacy proficiency rates in this country, a new genre of literature is making its way into the classroom. Young Adult Literature, such as the works of John Green, are becoming a more familiar sight inside the classroom. However, some parents, educators, and members of the school districts are not happy with this new trend. In the last year, alone, young adult books have been challenged hundreds of times in hopes of getting them removed from the classroom and library. I believe that these books need to stay in the schools, though. Through this thesis, I explore the possibility of Young Adult Literature having more of a presence in the secondary English Language Arts classroom in order to increase motivation, engagement, social awareness, and literacy rates. In this research project, only 13% of 11th and 12th grade English Language Arts students reported enjoying the reading they were currently assigned, despite their statement that they enjoy reading, in general. These books do not lead to motivated and engaged readers. By incorporating Young Adult Literature into the standard curriculum of an English Language Arts classroom, teachers can enhance motivation, engagement, and productivity. Students can continue to learn the same literary concepts and techniques, in addition to being exposed to current social problems. When Young Adult Literature is brought into a classroom, an environment is created in which students can learn what they think, why they think it, and how to respect the differing opinions of others.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: CFH0004583, ucf:45169
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004583

Title: The Voice of socialism: Radio speeches by the Socialist Workers Party candidates in the 1948 election.
Creator: Cannon, James Patrick, Carlson, Grace, Dobbs, Farrell, Socialist Workers Party
Date Issued: 1948
Identifier: 2180036, CFDT2180036, ucf:4935
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2180036

Title: REPRESENTATIONS AND IMPACTS OF TRANSGENDER AND GENDER NONCONFORMING IDEALS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE FOR YOUNG CHILDREN.
Creator: Foresman, David B, Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: Children's literature plays a critical role in shaping how children view themselves and the world around them. This is especially true in regards to outgroups such as the transgender and gender nonconforming communities. Transgender individuals have been gaining increased visibility in the past few years. The misconceptions surrounding these topics are not exclusively found outside the classroom. Title IX was expanded to include gender identity as recently as 2014. Yet, much confusion and...
Show moreChildren's literature plays a critical role in shaping how children view themselves and the world around them. This is especially true in regards to outgroups such as the transgender and gender nonconforming communities. Transgender individuals have been gaining increased visibility in the past few years. The misconceptions surrounding these topics are not exclusively found outside the classroom. Title IX was expanded to include gender identity as recently as 2014. Yet, much confusion and apprehension is present when discussing the topic of transgender and gender nonconformity, especially in the elementary school classroom. To address these misconceptions, inclusion of these outgroups into culturally inclusive curriculum is critical. With the power that children's literature has on empathy, attitudes, and comprehension, classroom libraries should consider including transgender and gender nonconforming titles into teacher resources and classroom libraries. Many positives can come from the power of children's literature, but there also lies the chance to fall into new and/or unique pitfalls that affect the elementary classroom, such as gender stereotyping. Therefore, this thesis analyzed transgender and gender nonconforming titles for elementary classrooms for trends and themes. 30 titles total were analyzed with 21 being selected to represent the ideals found in transgender and gender nonconforming children's literature.
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Date Issued: 2016
Identifier: CFH2000119, ucf:46004
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH2000119

Title: "UNNATURAL CONDUCT & FORCED DIFFICULTIES": AUSTEN, READING, AND THE PARADOX OF THE FEMININE IDEAL.
Creator: Dickens, Faith, Oliver, Kathleen, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: Though some scholars have maintained that Jane Austen closely adheres to the ideology of courtesy novels and conduct literature, I argue that Austen uses her knowledge of this ideology to reveal the flaws in reader assumptions about the presumed commonsensical nature of the courtesy novel and its feminine ideal. Austen is familiar with the conventions of eighteenth-century fiction, but, rather than adopting its tropes in her own work, she uses realism to parody its excesses and...
Show moreThough some scholars have maintained that Jane Austen closely adheres to the ideology of courtesy novels and conduct literature, I argue that Austen uses her knowledge of this ideology to reveal the flaws in reader assumptions about the presumed commonsensical nature of the courtesy novel and its feminine ideal. Austen is familiar with the conventions of eighteenth-century fiction, but, rather than adopting its tropes in her own work, she uses realism to parody its excesses and improbabilities; this realism then works against reader expectations and exposes paradoxes inherent in the courtesy novel and in conduct-book literature itself. In my thesis I observe how Austen uses courtesy novel tropes to expose or even mock the courtesy novel's inherently unrealistic qualities, and I do so by examining the act of "reading" in her novels: specifically, I argue that the literal reading that Austen's characters engage in does not produce the expected outcomes predicted by conduct books and courtesy novels; that the figurative reading of one character by another demonstrates the dangerousness and unsuitability of the heroine as "open book," as conduct books and courtesy novels urged her to be, as well as the irrationality and hypocrisy of acting the part of "closed book" to her intended lover; and, finally, that the act of reading an Austen novel is intended to prevent the absorption or interpretation of unrealistic ideals, through insistence on (more) realistic outcomes and through narrative intervention.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: CFH0004095, ucf:44784
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004095

Title: ELIZABETH BISHOP AND HER WOMEN:COUNTERING LOSS, LOVE, AND LANGUAGE THROUGH BISHOP'S HOMOSOCIAL CONTINUUM.
Creator: Rogers, Donna, Smith, Ernest, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: This thesis examines Elizabeth Bishop's seemingly understated and yet nuanced poetry with a specific focus on loss, love, and language through domesticity to create a poetic home. In this sense, home offers security for a displaced orphan and lesbian, moving from filial to amorous love, as well as the literary home for a poet who struggled for critical recognition. Further, juxtaposing the familiar with the strange, Bishop situates her speaker in a construction of artificial and natural...
Show moreThis thesis examines Elizabeth Bishop's seemingly understated and yet nuanced poetry with a specific focus on loss, love, and language through domesticity to create a poetic home. In this sense, home offers security for a displaced orphan and lesbian, moving from filial to amorous love, as well as the literary home for a poet who struggled for critical recognition. Further, juxtaposing the familiar with the strange, Bishop situates her speaker in a construction of artificial and natural boundaries that break down across her topography and represent loss through the multiple female figures that permeate her poems to convey the uncertainty one experiences with homelessness. In order to establish home, Bishop sets her female relationships on a continuum as mother, aunt, grandmother, and lovers are equitably represented with similar tropes. In essence, what draws these women together remains their collective and familiar duty as potential caretaker, which is contrasted by their unusual absence in the respective poems that figure them. Contrary to the opinion most scholars hold, Bishop's reticence was a calculated device that progressed her speaker(s) toward moments of self discovery. In an attempt to uncover her voice, her place in the literary movements, and her very identity, critics narrowly define Bishop's vision by fracturing her identity and positing reductive readings of her work. By choosing multiple dichotomies that begin with a marginalized speaker and the centered women on her continuum, the paradox of Bishop's poetry eludes some readers as they try to queer her or simply reduce her to impersonal and reticent, while a holistic approach is needed to uncover the genesis of Bishop's poetic progression. To be sure, Bishop's women conflate into the collective image of loss, absence, and abandonment on Bishop's homosocial continuum as a way to achieve catharsis. Bishop's concern with unconditional love, coupled with the continual threat of abandonment she contends with coursing through her work, gives credence to the homosocial continuum that is driven by loss and love with the perpetual need to create a language to house Bishop from the painful memories of rejection. Bishop situates her speaker(s) in the margins, since it is at the center when the pain of loss is brought into light, to allow her fluid selves release from the prison loss creates. By reading her work through the lenses of orphan, lesbian, and female poet, the progression of her homosocial continuum, as I envision it, is revealed. It is through this continuum that Bishop comes to terms with loss and abandonment, while creating a speaking subject that grows with each poem. Without her continuum of powerful female relationships, Bishop's progression as a poet would be far less revealing. Indeed, defining herself through negation, Bishop's sense of homelessness is uncovered in juxtaposition to her centered female subjects, and I delve into these contestations of space/place as well as her figurations of home/ homelessness to discern Bishop's poetic craft as she channeled the painful details of her past, thus creating her "one art."
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Date Issued: 2008
Identifier: CFE0002044, ucf:47601
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0002044

Title: EXPLORING THE PERCEPTIONS AND MOTIVATIONS OF PRE-SERVICE ELEMENTARY TEACHERS TOWARD AESTHETIC READING IN AN UNDERGRADUATE COURSE IN LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN.
Creator: Williams, Anne, Buchoff, Rita, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: Past research shows that feelings toward aesthetic reading, or reading for enjoyment, are down across the nation, even in those pursuing a degree in elementary education (Applegate & Applegate, 2004; National Endowment for the Arts , 2004). As reading rates drop, it becomes even more imperative that our future educators have a passion for reading, and are able to intrinsically motivate their students (McKool & Gespass, 2009; Nathanson, Pruslow & Levitt, 2008). The recommended practices for...
Show morePast research shows that feelings toward aesthetic reading, or reading for enjoyment, are down across the nation, even in those pursuing a degree in elementary education (Applegate & Applegate, 2004; National Endowment for the Arts , 2004). As reading rates drop, it becomes even more imperative that our future educators have a passion for reading, and are able to intrinsically motivate their students (McKool & Gespass, 2009; Nathanson, Pruslow & Levitt, 2008). The recommended practices for breaking the cycle of aliteracy are to deemphasize textbook driven lectures (Krashen, 1993; Nathanson et al., 2008; Sardo-Brown & Beeghly, 1996), enable text self-selection (Applegate & Applegate, 2004; 2014; Cardarelli, 1992; Krashen 1993; McKool & Gespass, 2009; Nathanson et al., 2008), include reflective journals (Nathanson et al., 2008), encourage open discussion (Applegate & Applegate, 2004; 2014; Krashen, 1993; McKool & Gespass, 2009; Nathanson et al., 2008; Sardo-Brown & Beeghly, 1996), provide opportunities to reflect on students' own personal views of literacy (Gomez, 2005), and incorporate "well-planned instructional experiences to allow students to experience what it feels like to be enthusiastic about reading" (Applegate & Applegate, 2004; Applegate et al., 2014; Gomez, 2005; Krashen, 1993; McKool & Gespass, 2009; Morrison, Jacobs, & Swinyard, 1999; Nathanson et al., 2008; Powell-Brown, 2003; Ruddell, 1995; Sardo-Brown & Beeghly, 1996). The intent of this thesis is to explore if a positive shift in the perceptions and motivations of pre-service elementary education teachers can occur through enrollment in a course on Literature for Children. Literature for Children, LAE 3414, is a required course for those pursuing a degree in elementary education at the University of Central Florida. The course's design follows the recommended practices for teaching a love of literature. This study tracked the perceptions and motivations of pre-service teachers enrolled in two class sections of this course over the fall 2014 semester, in order to see if a positive change in their feelings toward aesthetic reading occurred, and to what extent their enrollment in this course on Children's Literature affected this change. At the beginning of the semester, out of a total of 63 participants for the pre-survey, 68.3% reported that they felt enthusiastic toward reading, while 31.7% reported that they felt unenthusiastic. By the end of the course, out of 54 post-survey participants, 87% of participants reported that they felt enthusiastic toward reading, while 13% reported that they felt unenthusiastic. Both class sections surveyed experienced a positive shift in their perceptions and motivations toward aesthetic reading, as a result of enrollment and participation in this course.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: CFH0004845, ucf:45452
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004845

Title: TWO TERMS OF THE CUBAN COUNTERPOINT: TRANSCULTURATION IN THE POETRY OF NICOLoS GUILLeN.
Creator: Fulk, Alanna L, Chelfa, Celestino Alberto Villanueva, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: The history of Latin America and the Caribbean was irreversibly altered by the arrival of the conquistadors, destruction of native civilizations and implementation of colonialism for hundreds of years. However, Spain also introduced the high culture of the baroque to Latin America and the Caribbean, which mixed with the cultures of native and African peoples, creating new, distinct forms of literary expression. Subsequent post-colonial cultural movements attempted to explore and reaffirm the...
Show moreThe history of Latin America and the Caribbean was irreversibly altered by the arrival of the conquistadors, destruction of native civilizations and implementation of colonialism for hundreds of years. However, Spain also introduced the high culture of the baroque to Latin America and the Caribbean, which mixed with the cultures of native and African peoples, creating new, distinct forms of literary expression. Subsequent post-colonial cultural movements attempted to explore and reaffirm the variety of cultures that shaped both regions, including the movement of Afrocubanismo in Cuba, which occurred from 1910-1940. Afrocubanismo was a movement intended to incorporate African folklore and music into traditional modes of art. While many authors and artists were instrumental to Afrocubanismo, Nicol�s Guill�n is considered to be the most influential author of the movement, due to his new and inventive style of poetry that incorporated both Spanish and African influences. This study will demonstrate how Guill�n�s use of traditional poetic forms, the son and portrayal of everyday Afro-Cuban life reveal his vision for a post-colonial, transcultured Cuban society, rather than a Cuba subject to colonialism and acculturation.
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Date Issued: 2016
Identifier: CFH2000061, ucf:45516
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH2000061

Title: DIRECT DISCOURSE AND FEMALE ARCHETYPES IN CHRETIEN DE TROYES'S ROMANCES.
Creator: Crotty, Raquelle A, Smith, Geri, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: The purpose of this thesis is to examine the role of the female messenger archetype in Chretien de Troyes's romances within the context of the rising courtly literature written in France throughout the early twelfth century. The romances by Chretien that will serve as cases in point for this thesis are Erec et Enide, Lancelot, and Yvain. I analyze the various courtly ladies of the lower nobility to whom Chretien attributes direct discourse and study how their verbal influence over the plot...
Show moreThe purpose of this thesis is to examine the role of the female messenger archetype in Chretien de Troyes's romances within the context of the rising courtly literature written in France throughout the early twelfth century. The romances by Chretien that will serve as cases in point for this thesis are Erec et Enide, Lancelot, and Yvain. I analyze the various courtly ladies of the lower nobility to whom Chretien attributes direct discourse and study how their verbal influence over the plot and the extent to which they are directly involved in the action of that plot correlate to one another. This, as a counterpoint to the queen's traditional role as seemingly powerful, but ultimately passive object in the chivalric paradigm, demonstrates how Chretien uses the female messenger archetype within his romances. While this study focuses on examining the existence of the female messenger archetype, it also acknowledges the variation amongst the different female characters, even as they fit into the role of the female messenger archetype within Chretien's individual works. Lastly, the ambiguity of enide's character, as the oldest example of the female messenger archetype, in comparison with the examples from Chretien's later works, suggests a possible development in Chretien's use of the female messenger archetypes, specifically a crystallization of the literary function of both the queen and the female messenger figures in his corpus.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: CFH2000569, ucf:45693
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH2000569

Title: EXAMINING THE MAGIC TREE HOUSE SERIES FOR HISTORICAL ACCURACY AND EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS.
Creator: Washington, NIna, Killingsworth Roberts, Sherron, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: Often teachers are faced with the challenge of teaching more content with less time and resources. The use of trade books within the content areas allows teachers to integrate multiple skills in one lesson. The Magic Tree House series has been popular with students and teachers on the elementary level. Using books such as these would be a good way for teachers to use their allotted time to teach all of the content that they are accountable for. This thesis will explore the historical accuracy...
Show moreOften teachers are faced with the challenge of teaching more content with less time and resources. The use of trade books within the content areas allows teachers to integrate multiple skills in one lesson. The Magic Tree House series has been popular with students and teachers on the elementary level. Using books such as these would be a good way for teachers to use their allotted time to teach all of the content that they are accountable for. This thesis will explore the historical accuracy and educational connections within the Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne. The purpose of my thesis research is to determine, through the methodology of content analysis, if the facts provided within the Magic Tree House series are accurate enough to use as supplements within the classroom as well as what Next Generation Sunshine State Standards might be linked to particular books.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: CFH0003827, ucf:44761
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0003827

Title: Ballou's Pictorial: Scenes in New Orleans.
Creator: Ballou, Maturin Murray
Date Created: 1855
Identifier: DP0012806
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0012806

Title: AN INTERSECTIONAL COMPARISON OF FEMALE AGENCY IN TONI MORRISON'S SULA AND WANG ANYI'S SONG OF EVERLASTING SORROW.
Creator: Lynton, Jordan, Bell, Kathleen, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: The opportunities created by the end of the Mao Era and legislature promoting the rights of African Americans and women in the mid-twentieth century allowed women of both cultures to break further into the literary scene and negotiate their own sense of agency through their work. Although Western feminism also grew rapidly throughout this period, its ethnocentric centering of gender prevented it from being a reliable lens with which to analyze the work of Chinese and African American women...
Show moreThe opportunities created by the end of the Mao Era and legislature promoting the rights of African Americans and women in the mid-twentieth century allowed women of both cultures to break further into the literary scene and negotiate their own sense of agency through their work. Although Western feminism also grew rapidly throughout this period, its ethnocentric centering of gender prevented it from being a reliable lens with which to analyze the work of Chinese and African American women who experienced issues of race, class, and gender simultaneously. This caused Western feminists to evaluate the work of Chinese and African American women from a perspective of privilege and misrepresented the cultural, social, and political influences that impacted their agency. Thus, this paper seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of the intersectional paradigm as a comparative lens with which to analyze the construction of female characters in mid-twentieth century Chinese and African American fiction in place of a Western feminist lens. To this effect, it will apply the intersectional lens to Toni Morrison's Sula (1973) and Wang Anyi's Song of Everlasting Sorrow (2008) specifically, to determine how this research paradigm can be used to reveal the identities the female protagonists construct and their opportunities for agency. This paper hopes to increase discourse on the applications of intersectionality in literature as a tool for better understanding the literature of women of color.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: CFH0004436, ucf:45124
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004436

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