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Jemimah L. Young; Marquita D. Foster; Dorothy Hines – English Journal, 2018
The authors discuss how Black girls can engage with literary texts through counter fairy tales (CFT) as a resistive literary strategy to reclaim Black girls' narratives and to be reflective of their experiences. The racial violence that Black girls encounter in school cannot be separated from the remnants of the afterlife of slavery within PreK-12…
Descriptors: Fairy Tales, Childrens Literature, Culturally Relevant Education, African American Students

O'Donnell-Allen, Cindy; Smagorinsky, Peter – English Journal, 1999
Looks at the discussion of a small group of girls (ordinarily reticent or diffident in class) in a senior English class as they interpreted the character of Ophelia in Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Discusses the idea that thinking can develop through dialogic (collaborative) rather than dialectic (conflictive) transactions. Notes classroom…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Research, Discussion (Teaching Technique), English Instruction