Check this article out. It's titled: 10 Great Books For (Traumatizing) Children. It'll give us LOTS to talk about next week!

Obama's Special Olympics joke

My husband nicely informed me that Obama's Special Olympics joke was weeks ago.

Sorry for not being on top of things more!

April Fools Day info

In class I mentioned how I thought April Fools Day ended at 12pm.

Here's a link to an article that talk about it. I was partly right. The 12pm thing is a British tradition (and thus probably Canadian as well).

Dialects in literature

Some of you have been blogging about our class experience of reading literature containing dialects. Great posts! I encourage you to check these out AND to contribute to the discussion by writing on this topic yourself.

Here's a link to the Nappy Hair classroom story I talked about in class.

What are your reactions/reflections on this? It's a good reminder for me that audience (particular mix of students in your classroom) needs to play a big part in what you choose to do and why you might choose to do certain things in the classroom.

American Indian discussion close to home (or at least my home!)

Here's the link the to newspaper article I mentioned in class about the school mascot debate in Saugatuck.

Here's a letter to the editor in response. Here's another. Here's yet another.

I'll keep you posted!