Bexley Multicultural Class #5

Transformative Classrooms

The need forCulturally Responsive teaching:“… culturally responsive teaching is going to where the students are culturally and linguistically for the aim of bringing them where they need to be academically. It is a process for validating and affirming the indigenous cultures and languages of the students for the purposes of building and bridging them to academic success. Culturally responsive teaching is therefore meant for all students, not just African American students.

The Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning www.culturallyresponsive.org /resources

Teachers working together

Mem Fox

“Everything we read, from sexist

advertisements and women’s magazines to romance novels and children’s books, constructs us, makes us who we are, by presenting our image of ourselves as girls and women, as boys and men.

We who write children’s books, and we whoteach through literature, need to be sure weare opening doors to full human potential,not closing them.”

"One of the major goals of my work

and my life … is to help foster

understanding and respect for each other—whatever

our nation, race, or gender—and for all

life upon this Earth." Joseph

Bruchac

Five Phase Approach to Multicultural

Literature (Norton, 2005)

• Phase One: Traditional Literature

• Identify distinctions among folktales, myths and legends.

• Identify ancient stories that have common features and that are found in many regions.

• Identify types of stories that dominate a subject.

• Summarize the nature of oral language, the role of traditional literature, the role of an audience and the literary style.

Phase Two: Traditional Tales from One Area

• Analyze traditional myths and other story types and compare findings with those in Phase One.

• Analyze and identify values, beliefs and themes in the traditional tales of the region.

Phase Three: Historical Nonfiction

• Analyze nonfiction for the values, beliefs and themes identified in traditional literature.

• Compare adult autobiographies and children’s biographies. (if possible)

• Compare information in historical documents with autobiographies and

biographies.

Phase Four: Historical Fiction

• Evaluate historical fiction according to the authenticity of the conflicts, characterizations, settings, themes, language, and traditional beliefs.

• Search for the role traditional literature plays in historical fiction.

• Compare historical fiction with autobiographies, biographies, and historical information.

Phase Five: Contemporary Literature

• Analyze the inclusion of any beliefs and values identified in traditional literature and nontraditional literature.

• Analyze contemporary characterization and conflicts.

• Analyze the themes and look for threads that cross the literature.

From Against Borders Hazel Rochman

“The best books break down borders.

They surprise us - whether they are set close to home or abroad.

They change our view of ourselves.

They extend that phrase “like me” to include what

we thought was foreign and strange.”

Hazel Rochman …

“ … people don’t come to America blank.

Their memories and stories andpoetry stay with them and enrichus all, even as new experienceschange them, and they changeus.”

Celebrations And Awards

Hosting a Read-In can be as simple as bringing together friends to share a book, or as elaborate as arranging public readings and media presentations that feature professional African American writers.

To be counted as participants, simply:~ Select books authored by African Americans; ~ Hold your event during the month of February; ~ Report your results by submitting the 2011 African American Read-In Report Card.

http://www.ncte.org/action/aari/packetinfo

International Children’s Book Day April 2

Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday Sponsored by IBBY International Board on Books for Young People

Hans Christian Andersen AwardHighest international recognition given to an author and an illustrator of children’s books

England’sDavid Almond

April 30

Each year, September 8th marks the celebration of literacy and learning internationally. International Literacy Day (ILD)was proclaimed by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) on November 17, 1965 and was first celebrated in 1966.Literacy is more than reading and writing– it is about how we communicate as a society. It is about social practices and relations, about knowledge, language and culture. (United Nations)

UNESCO

The Power of Women's Literacy was the theme chosen for ILD 2010.

ABC News

Ralph Waldo Emerson:“Thought is the blossom, language is the bud, action is the fruit behind it.”

3 Stage Transformative Teaching/Learning Model

Stage 1: InformationTeacher delivers information = THE BOOK

Stage 2: IntegrationTeacher and students interact to create relevancy = EXPERIENCE

Stage 3: TransformationTeacher and students interact to create solutions to identified

local or global needs = ACTION

“The goal for students at any grade level is to naturally move through a world that recognizes, celebrates and respects people and culture from all over the world. Make sure that each one of your students can find themselves in the pages of a book in your classroom library.

Eventually the goal is one of not talking about global literature, orinserting it into the curriculum. The goal is to fully live in a global society. Using quality global literature is a starting point for both learning and living.”

Marian J. McKenna“Breaking Boundaries with Global Literature”

Books for extended service learningopportunities

Ooops!

Books for extended service learningopportunities

ThreeCups ofTea

Greg Mortenson

http://www.kidscanpress.com/

Rochelle Strauss

"The fact that I found had the most impact on me was that in North America, we use an average of more than 140 gallons (550 liters) of water per person, per day.”

Book Trailer

Resource Guide

http://www.one.org/blog/2009/04/27/opportunity-international-and-one-hen/

http://www.onehen.org/

Dr. Kwabena Darko

Social Studies:

Economics Standard

A teacher inHonduras

http://www.thegoodgarden.org/

http://www.globalfundforchildren.org/index.php/Our-Work/Children-s-Books.html

The development of each Global Fund for Children book is influenced by three guiding principles:

• to present positive images and stories of children; • to promote cultural diversity; and • to foster global citizenship.

Partnered with CharlesbridgePublishers

Multimedia/Video to use with classes

Nubs: The True StoryOf a Mutt, a Marine And a Miracle

Major Brian DennisKirby LarsonMary Nethery

ByFirst Lt. David FalveyAnd Mrs. Julie Hutt’sFourth Grade Class

• Write a letter to a soldier describing the students’ interests and hobbies, asking questions about the soldier’s life while stationed overseas.Exchange class photo and/or artwork.

• Use Google Earth to locate the region where the soldier is stationed.

• Students collect items to create a care package to send to a soldier(s).

• Have someone from the armed forces visit classroom in person or by using technology (Skype).

Extension ideas:

Homelessness

November isHunger and HomelessAwareness Month

Physical Challenges

2011 Schneider Family Awards

http://www.amblyopiakids.com/2010/08/book-review-pirate-of-kindergarten.html

The Amblyopia Kids website and blog. Dedicated to creating awareness about Amblyopia (Lazy Eye) in children. Eye Patch Reviews, Amblyopia information, Amblyopia Stories.

Parent Resources & Fun activities for kids. Get help with Amblyopia here. Uniting children and parents through Amblyopia Adventures.

Note: Sequel to the Sonnenblick’s 2006YA novel:Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie.Tells the story of Jeffrey’s older brother,Whose own 8th grade year will always beremembered as the year his littlebrother got cancer.

Middle Grade Schneider Winner

Jordan Sonnenblick

Schneider YA Winner

Antony John

The Danger Box

Ballerina Dreams; a true story by Lauren Thompson

Feiwel and Friends 2007

My Brother CharlieHolly Robinson Peete andRyan Elizabeth Peete

Scholastic2010

http://vimeo.com/8538473

Rules

Cynthia Lord

Scholastic 2006

Anything but Typical

Nora Raleigh Baskin

Simon & Schuster2009

My Thirteenth Winter; a memoir

Samantha Abeel

Perfection Learning2005

Tourette Syndrome

Jonathan Friesen

Puffin Books 2008

Out of My MindSharon M. Draper

Atheneum 2010

The PrinterMyron Uhlberg

Peachtree2003

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/150802.Myron_Uhlberg

Listening for CricketsDavid Gifaldi

Henry Holt2008

Little AudreyBy Ruth White

Farrar Straus Giroux2008

Django; World’s GreatestGuitarist

Bonnie Christensen

Roaring Book Press2009

Listen to Django: http://www.last.fm/listen/artist/Django%2BReinhardt/similarartists

The Holocaust of World War II

Atheneum 19982010

Shadow Spinner by Susan FletcherWhite Crane by Sandy Fussell

New Books

Debbie Reese’s Blog

http://www.cincopuntos.com/pdf/crossing_bok_chitto_guide.pdf

Poetry

they spread their dampumbrella tops

and loose their spores

with silent pops.

In a project on the Internet, he and children throughout Mexico and Argentina collaborated on the “stories” that make up the poetry in this book.

The combination of the kids’ naturally poetic language and Luján’s skills makes for revealing, funny and often moving little poems.

Jorge Lujan

My bunny understands me.When I’m sad she can tell right away.And though she walks on four feet

and she likes to bite,She’s nicer than the nicest people.

Winter Home

We build our bedsinside this barn,with shreds of cloth,old rags, twine. A roomwhere we can winter-dineto chime of ice, by windows fullof snowflake art. With dreams of crumb,cracker, tart, inside this oldwind-whistling place, this coldand tiny mousekin space,we cuddle to chasethe chill away,imagining an April day.

--Rebecca Kai Dotlich

Biographies/Memoirs

S. D. Nelson is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe of the Dakotas.

Luis Soriano, a teacher in Colombia who loves to read!

Non-fiction

Youme(Landowne)

30 page teacher’s guide

The author reads the story.

Picture Books

Feb. 12th is her birthday.Celebrate: Jacqueline Woodson DayBorn in Columbus, Ohio

New York Times Top Ten Best illustrated Children's Books of 2010

Fawzia Gilani-Williams lives in Oberlin, Ohio, with her husband, Robert and their daughter, Muslimah.

René Colato Laínez

http://renecolatolainez.com/

Immigrant from El Salvador

Teaching Ideas on the LatinoImmigrant experience.

Fiction - Novels

Winner of the 2010 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Excellence in Children's Literature: Picture Book

http://www.zoraandme.com/

Manjiro

Seeds of America series

SKYPE Laurie!

http://authors.simonandschuster.ca/Laurie-Halse-Anderson/1791921

Instructions on her website.