Mercedes Santana
10/14/17
Pd: 6-8
‘Where’s My Story?’ Reflecting All Students in Children’s Literature
Education Week
March 29, 2017
Pgs. 1
Synopsis
A High school teacher has been realizing, most of the new students she receives don’t really enjoy reading. They’re so used to the usual which is passages and multiple choice questions but not reading for deeper meaning. She looked into the situation, and found out the reason most children didn’t enjoy was because books lacked of real-life situations, things that the children could relate to: race, at home problems, family situations, etc. The lack of diversity is getting to kids now more than ever, now is when society is changing, opinions are changing, school wasn’t the same as 100 years ago. …show more content…
They have to figure out the problems with them and create their own and reading them to students in elementary schools. In the first part of their projects, they recorded books that have remembered from their childhoods, they read Walter Dean Myers essay, “Where are the people of color in children’s book?” and Traci Gardner’s “Cultural Relevance Rubric” to test public library children’s books. After their trips to the library, they noticed most of these books are based on old century events, slavery, and not modern things that could be happening. These books also perceive colored young women incorrectly, incorrect hair, Jonasia from the article “ Don’t they know a lot of girls wear weave?” Even showing some diversity in books isn’t enough, they are not describing children and their lives correctly. They need real descriptions of children now and their
10/14/17
Pd: 6-8
‘Where’s My Story?’ Reflecting All Students in Children’s Literature
Education Week
March 29, 2017
Pgs. 1
Synopsis
A High school teacher has been realizing, most of the new students she receives don’t really enjoy reading. They’re so used to the usual which is passages and multiple choice questions but not reading for deeper meaning. She looked into the situation, and found out the reason most children didn’t enjoy was because books lacked of real-life situations, things that the children could relate to: race, at home problems, family situations, etc. The lack of diversity is getting to kids now more than ever, now is when society is changing, opinions are changing, school wasn’t the same as 100 years ago. …show more content…
They have to figure out the problems with them and create their own and reading them to students in elementary schools. In the first part of their projects, they recorded books that have remembered from their childhoods, they read Walter Dean Myers essay, “Where are the people of color in children’s book?” and Traci Gardner’s “Cultural Relevance Rubric” to test public library children’s books. After their trips to the library, they noticed most of these books are based on old century events, slavery, and not modern things that could be happening. These books also perceive colored young women incorrectly, incorrect hair, Jonasia from the article “ Don’t they know a lot of girls wear weave?” Even showing some diversity in books isn’t enough, they are not describing children and their lives correctly. They need real descriptions of children now and their