Using Multiethnic Literature in the K

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Using Multiethnic Literature in the K8 Classroom

• Education 430The Teaching of Reading and
  Literature with a Multicultural Perspective K-6

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• Childrens Literature
• Literature develops students imaginations
• and
• it also provides implicit and explicit
  information about issues and other people.
• Taxel, p. 11

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• Multicultural Childrens Literature
• Multicultural Literature is for all students.

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• Solutions
• Teachers can do many things and
• teachers can and do make a difference.

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• Multicultural Childrens Literature
• It is important for teachers to evaluate
  childrens literature on both its literary
  qualities, and on its content.

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• Multicultural Childrens Literature
• Fiction provides insights into some aspects of
  the culture
• values, attitudes, ways of living, beliefs

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• Childrens Literature
• Fiction and Non Fiction provides varying
  perspectives
• U.S. history is usually told from an European
  perspective
• The Native American Perspective is told in
  multicultural literature

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• Christopher Columbus and Childrens Literature
• Columbuss arrival on the coast of San Salvador
  is an event of epochal significance
• it signaled the beginning of the Great Age of
  Exploration.

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• Christopher Columbus and Childrens Literature
• However and unfortunately,
• the childrens books are one sided. They do not
  discuss the Native peoples perspectives or what
  their lives were like before Columbus.

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• Christopher Columbus and Childrens Literature
• What are the explicit and implicit messages that
  are portrayed in the literature on Christopher
  Columbus?

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• Solutions
• Teachers can do many things and
• teachers can and do make a difference.

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• Solutions
• Teachers can learn to select culturally authentic
  books

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• Solutions
• What are the stereotypes that were prevalent in
  the past?
• What are authentic portrayals?

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Project

1. Read a chapter specific to the cultural group.
2. 2. Choose 5-7 criteria
3. 3. To be systematic in your evaluation of the 5
   books, create a chart with the selected criteria.

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• ProjectPart 2
• 1. Read evaluate 5 titles using the criteria.
• 2. Write an annotated bibliography for each of
  your five books.

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• ProjectPart 2
• Write a short summary using the somebody, wanted,
  but, and so.
• How well did it meet the criteriaan authentic
  portrayal?
• Would you recommend it and if so identify a
  general grade level and theme the book would fit
  under.

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• ProjectPart 2
• 4. Turn in your 5 annotations and your chart with
  the criteria.
• 5. Two group members put the annotations together
  and email them to Prof. Hernandez and I will
  create the class bibliography.

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• ProjectPart 2
• 6. In class discussion of multiethnic literature.
  In groups share your 5 books.
• 5. With the whole class share one of your 5
  books.

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• Website
• www.angelfire.com/ill/monte/hernandez.html