“Let’s Talk. With powerful prose and images, thirty diverse and award-winning authors and illustrators capture frank discussions about racism, identity, and self-esteem. Here is an invitation to all families to be advocates and allies for change.” Editors: Wade Hudson & Cheryl Willis Hudson
The individual stories are inspiring and will hopefully open up discussions with your students.
As you see below (or click the link), I included one of the stories that one must read in order to understand systemic racism. It is very basic, but it did open up my world a little bit more.
Lessons to teach: figurative devices, foreshadowing, textual evidence, reading analysis, voice/tone, conflict/resolution, author’s view. Background context: history/timeline on colonialism, slavery, Jim Crow Law, Chinese Railroad Workers, etc.
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