Today Daniel will be showing the video I made for the 2010 Summer Institute, A Jedi’s Guide to Reading & Writing, in which I explore the ways in which Star Wars supports his literate development.
Though two years have passed and other pop culture obsessions have intervened, not much has really changed. When I talked to him this morning, he reported that he was reading a new Star Wars book he’d just gotten from the library. Though Calkins (1994) disparages such nonsense — “When we suggest that they choose their own topics for writing, they often write about superheroes or retell television dramas” (pp. 15-16) — I take a more Dysonian approach and continue to celebrate scenes such as the one below…
FilkBlog: The Scott Filkins Experience 