iYMAs SUMMER 2020.
Week 8: Coretta Scott King Award. Week 7: Stonewall Award. RU548 Guest Speaker Cicely Lewis. Week 6: Sibert Award. Week 5: Schneider Family Award. Week 4: Pura Belpre Award. RU548 A Conversation w/Donalyn Miller. Week 3: Printz Award. Week 2: Inclusivity & Social Justice. Week 1: Intro. 12 Insta Easy Instagram Library & Literacy Promotion Ideas. What’s the point of Instagram and why should you spend your precious time and money on it? Well, don’t worry about the cost, because it’s FREE! So, all you really need is creativity and a few minutes a day to make meaningful, fun, and lasting connections with your community. And with Instagram you get a twofer! Why Stop at Windows and Mirrors?: Children’s Book Prisms. It has been twenty-nine years since Rudine Sims Bishop’s seminal essay “Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors” was published.
It has been twenty-nine years since Rudine Sims Bishop’s seminal essay “Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors” was published. Speaking to the lack of children’s books with African American characters and themes, the essay called for books to act as windows and mirrors that would allow all children to see themselves and the experiences of others in what they read. At the time, I was mostly home with my toddler son, collecting children’s books and feeling inspired to write. There is no diverse book — ImagineLit. If you have ever attended any session where I have presented and the topic of diversity has come up, you know I am quick to tell attendees that I do not give out diverse book lists.
Here is my reason why: there are no diverse texts. It is in the transaction (Rosenblatt, 1986) between the reader and the text that a text’s diversity is realized. The way we have framed the word diversity creates a binary—diverse or non-diverse. Using the word diverse to describe texts also creates a default position, because one must ask diverse for whom or diverse from what? AP English Literature and the Pedagogy of Whiteness. Why content and the canon is only part of the problem Racism only ever appears…as what it is not, as something other than it is.
It is essentially misleading, suggesting that the underlying affective system operates only to the extent that it does not appear as such. — Jared Sexton Recently, the College Board has come under fire for its changes to AP World History, announcing that the course would now limit itself to covering only history after 1450 CE. Critics of the move point out that removing the 8,000 years before that date threatens to further enshrine a Eurocentric view of history, marginalizing the history and accomplishments of African, American, and Asian cultures before colonialism.
Amanda DoAmaral articulated these concerns during a shocking exchange with the College Board’s Trevor Packer at the AP Reading Open Forum in Salt Lake City. Where Are Our Black Boys on Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel Covers? Why are there no boys like me on these covers?
My seventeen-year-old brother who lives in Lagos, Nigeria, raised this question to me recently. Not in these exact words, but sufficiently close. I’d been feeding him a steady drip of young adult (YA) science fiction and fantasy (SFF) novels from as diverse a list as I could, featuring titles like Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti, Martha Wells’ Murderbot series, Roshani Chokshi’s The Star-Touched Queen and Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother. The question, at first seemed like a throwaway one, but as my head-scratching went on, I realised I did not have a clear-cut answer for it. Book pairs – YA Books and More. Coincidence is an anomaly people don’t really know what to do with, but it happens all of the time.
Sometimes, it’s a good thing, while other times it isn’t as good. Luckily, my coincidence happened to fall on the good side of things. I finished reading Dry by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman when I picked up The Impossibility of Us by Katy Upperman. Coincidentally, both books take place in California, and they are both about current issues relevant in teen’s lives today. Everything else about these books are on two very separate spectrums.
Read This Now! Tuesday BookTalks by Brad and Jenn - Google Sheets. Digital Storytelling. Schneider Family Book Award. 37 Kidlit and YA Titles in Honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.