Thanks for yet another great class session last night! I always have so much to think about on my drive home.
For this next week, there are 2 scholarly articles (in coursepack) and the novel: Becoming Naomi Leon.
Group A is doing a Questioning the Text paper.
AND, we all will be meeting at the MSU museum (front entrance) next week Wednesday at 3pm. DO NOT MEET AT OUR ERICKSON CLASSROOM FIRST.
We'll be spending approximately 45 minutes touring the exhibit: Our Journeys/Our Stories: Portraits of Latino Achievement exhibit.
After our tour, we'll walk back to our classroom together (as promised, I'll be bringing along a rope for us to hold as we walk so we don't lose anyone!).
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
For Week 9 - Better Late Than Never!
This week we'll be talking about critical literacy.
Your reading assignment is a short piece by Kuhlman: Fifth Graders' Reactions to Native Americans in Little House on the Prairie: Guiding Students' Critical Reading
In the syllabus it also says to do a reading by MacDowell et. al. Disregard this.
Your reading assignment is a short piece by Kuhlman: Fifth Graders' Reactions to Native Americans in Little House on the Prairie: Guiding Students' Critical Reading
In the syllabus it also says to do a reading by MacDowell et. al. Disregard this.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
For Week 8 - Readings and Research
Read:
* Al Capone Does my Shirts
* Linton (1998): What does Linton say about the power of language? What terminology do you prefer when discussing this topic? Why? What would it mean to read Al Capone Does my Shirts from a "disability studies framework? What types of questions would you ask about the representations in the text? How would you analyze those questions?
* Tal (2001) and Williams, et. al. (2005): In what range of ways have people with disabilities been portrayed in text? What criteria might one use to evaluate books that include people with disabilities? Is there anything you question about the criteria presented?
* Optional: Check out Gennifer Choldenko's website. (I suggest you read the book first.) What do you learn about her? What don't you learn?
Write (Everyone):
* Write a questioning the text paper and submit it to the Angel dropbox by 6 pm the evening before class.
In class we'll watch part of a documentary in which a woman who is autistic shares a little about her experience and talk about how the film may raise new questions about Al Capone Does my Shirts.
* Al Capone Does my Shirts
* Linton (1998): What does Linton say about the power of language? What terminology do you prefer when discussing this topic? Why? What would it mean to read Al Capone Does my Shirts from a "disability studies framework? What types of questions would you ask about the representations in the text? How would you analyze those questions?
* Tal (2001) and Williams, et. al. (2005): In what range of ways have people with disabilities been portrayed in text? What criteria might one use to evaluate books that include people with disabilities? Is there anything you question about the criteria presented?
* Optional: Check out Gennifer Choldenko's website. (I suggest you read the book first.) What do you learn about her? What don't you learn?
Write (Everyone):
* Write a questioning the text paper and submit it to the Angel dropbox by 6 pm the evening before class.
In class we'll watch part of a documentary in which a woman who is autistic shares a little about her experience and talk about how the film may raise new questions about Al Capone Does my Shirts.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
MCTE 2008 - Dialects in Children’s and Young Adult Literature – Pedagogical Considerations
Bank Street College Library Site has an excellent list of children's literature containing dialects.
Here's a link to the English Journal (NCTE) article that I wrote with Dr. Marilyn Wilson.
From the EJ article, our recommended picture books (PB) and young adult books (YA) that contain authentic examples of American English dialects
A Washington Post article describing the New York Nappy Hair controversy in 1998
A NY Times article about the incident
Here's a link to the English Journal (NCTE) article that I wrote with Dr. Marilyn Wilson.
From the EJ article, our recommended picture books (PB) and young adult books (YA) that contain authentic examples of American English dialects
A Washington Post article describing the New York Nappy Hair controversy in 1998
A NY Times article about the incident
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
For Week 7 - Readings and Research
The co-themes of session 7 will be "practicing close readings of text" and analyzing awards for diverse literature. You'll only need to prepare for the second!
Everyone:
Read the Aronson and Pinkney articles. What are the arguments for and against honoring books in specific cultural/social categories? What assumptions does each position rely on?
Where do you stand in terms of the debate?
Award jigsaw: Research the following information for your assigned award.
Is there an official website for the award? Are there other resources that provide information about the award? (Sometimes libraries or author blogs feature information not available on the official sites.)
Why and when was this award created? What is the rationale for the award?
Selection criteria: What books, authors, illustrators are eligible? How are the books judged?
Who sponsors the award?
Selection committee: Who chooses the winners? How do you get on the committee? How transparent is the process?
Bring in books that have won or have been honored by the award. This will mean a trip to the library--you can coordinate this within your group. How easy was it to find the books? Do they have seals or other indications that they are award winners?
It would be helpful if one person in the group could bring in a computer.
In class we'll teach each other about the awards, share books, and talk about the questions that our research raises.
Everyone:
Read the Aronson and Pinkney articles. What are the arguments for and against honoring books in specific cultural/social categories? What assumptions does each position rely on?
Where do you stand in terms of the debate?
Award jigsaw: Research the following information for your assigned award.
Is there an official website for the award? Are there other resources that provide information about the award? (Sometimes libraries or author blogs feature information not available on the official sites.)
Why and when was this award created? What is the rationale for the award?
Selection criteria: What books, authors, illustrators are eligible? How are the books judged?
Who sponsors the award?
Selection committee: Who chooses the winners? How do you get on the committee? How transparent is the process?
Bring in books that have won or have been honored by the award. This will mean a trip to the library--you can coordinate this within your group. How easy was it to find the books? Do they have seals or other indications that they are award winners?
It would be helpful if one person in the group could bring in a computer.
In class we'll teach each other about the awards, share books, and talk about the questions that our research raises.
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