I like how here we start getting some of the ideas from the girls’ enculturation from the programs at the community center without actually having to sit through the lessons that in some way seem like Sunday school with a different purpose that tries to be fun enough to be different than regular school but still has the main goal of teaching rather than entertaining.
I seem to be moving along pretty now, though I find it interesting that sometimes my thoughts are small and sufficient to move on and other times they bloom into twenty other ideas that ramble all over the place.
On another though, my thoughts earlier reminded me of an article I have my students read about how student and teacher responses to Newbery award winners varies (by Marshall Geroge)- they don’t always agree- and in conversations as equals they can take turns being the “knower” when appropriate. I guess I would like to discuss the book with someone who can take the role of knower in order to increase my understanding. While my students don’t often have the knowledge of children’s literature to be knowers in that field, their personal experiences often relate to the books we read and, as they are shared, expand upon the reader experience. But what happens when you don’t have a knower for entire realms of experience?
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