What did you learn from the article? What meaningful, anti-racist actions can you translate into your future classrooms? What concerns or questions do you have about your article?

Select ONE of these articles to read. After you read your selected article, please write a one-page (approx 250 words) reaction paper.

What did you learn from the article? What meaningful, anti-racist actions can you translate into your future classrooms? What concerns or questions do you have about your article?

• “The Cat is Out of the Bag: Orientalism, Anti-BLack, and White Supremacy in Dr. Seuss’s Children Books”
• Links to an external site.
• “Guide for Selecting Anti-bias Children’s Books”
• Links to an external site.
• “A New Era for Children’s Literature”
• Links to an external site.
• “Breaking up with your Favorite, Racist Childhood Classic Books”
• Links to an external site.

4.

Create a slide in this slideshow to advertise a mentor text that you think would work great in a narrative unit. Your slide should include:

A CHILDS BOOK********

• the author, title, and a picture of the text,
• a link to an e-book or reading (if available)
• suggested grade level,
• 2 -3 sentence summary about why you think this is a great book to use as a mentor text. In other words, what WRITING SKILLS can students learn from this text?
• If your selected text is inclusive, please explain how.

PLEASE write complete in the text box below once you finish creating your slide. (This will remove this assignment from your To-Do List and signal to me that you completed the assignment.)

5.

FYI- the link for the Self-Care assignment due for next week has been updated.

Links to an external site.