Here are my ideas for a final project. In general, I've been trying to think of projects that try to bridge between what I'm learning in this course and my children's literature classroom. If you have other ideas, please suggest away!
-Erin
1. I am considering teaching One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia to my students next quarter. It's a historical fiction book for children published in 2010 that won the Correct Scott King Award and a Newbery honor, among other honors. It's set in the 60's in California and focuses on the Black Panther Movement from an African American perspective. My plan would be to chose several of the books and articles we read this quarter and consider how what I learned from those sources would have changed how I would read this book and even more importantly how I would teach it to my mostly middle class White students training to be teachers. I see it as a reflective project that has a first person focus and is maybe structured as a notebook of responses than a paper.
2. Continue some thoughts about themes of inclusion and exclusion in children's literature and how authors attitudes and choices affect the readers of these books.
3. Use the resources from class to develop my own set of evaluation for multicultural children's fiction and then compare to other sets of evaluation standards that other scholars have created.
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