One Crazy Early Spring Read

For a Winter 2011 course on Curricular Approaches to Multicultural and Equity Studies, I decided to read One Crazy Summer (2010) by Rita Willams-Garcia and chronicle how I read the book and think about teaching the book in the Introduction to Children's Literature class I teach to undergraduate Education majors after having taken this course.

5/19/2011

My Adventure Continues

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So... My students read One Crazy Summer for today and made all these nice activity plans that we did. Which was nice. But I really felt li...
3/09/2011

The Conclusion

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I feel written out. Drained. Wordless. And still I keep writing. How do you tell when you’re done with something that doesn’t end? Whil...

p204-215 Be Eleven & Afua

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This chapter/ending was better than the wrap up before. Believable and not fully resolved. I think this would be a difficult book for a ch...

p185-199 Glorious Hill & The Third Thing

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Well that was unexpected. Not completely unexpected, but I didn’t expect that to be how a major tension point got resolved. Fern’s public ...

p200-203 So

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I have loved the story so far, but I’m not I’m not feeling the wrap up- it’s going too quickly and too neatly and maybe too optimistically? ...
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Erin R-S
I am in the Literature for Children and Young Adults PhD Program at The Ohio State University where I teacher EDU T&L 467, Introduction to Children's Literature, a required course for undergraduates who wish to pursue a Masters of Education and many others who plan on working with children.
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