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Showing posts with label flawed classics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flawed classics. Show all posts
Thursday, September 27, 2007

BABAR'S WORLD TOUR

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Last week in my children's lit class, we discussed Herbert Kohl's book, Shall We Burn Babar? In prep for it, I stopped in the local ...
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Monday, September 24, 2007

"The Indians crept closer and closer...."

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A student in one of my classes shared a YouTube clip from an episode of the I Love Lucy show. The episode "The Indian Show" was e...
Wednesday, August 22, 2007

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Education of Little Tree (again) and Spirit Bear (again) A North Carolina newspaper ran a column a few days ago, about the summer reading ...
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Thursday, May 10, 2007

Illustrations of the "scalp belt" in CADDIE WOODLAWN

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On Images of Indians in Children's Books , I've posted scans of the illustrations of the "scalp belt" in Caddie Woodlawn ....
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Sunday, May 06, 2007

The "scalp belt" in CADDIE WOODLAWN

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(See additional material added in days following this post.) I've been in Norman, Oklahoma the last few days, at a gathering of scholars...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

More on ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE'S SIGN OF THE BEAVER, from Christine Rose and Michael Eshkibok

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Editor's Note: Below is an essay from an organization called Students and Teachers Against Racism. Its authors sent it to me, with permi...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Getting the 'Indian' Out of the Cupboard: Using Information Literacy to Promote Critical Thinking, by Rhonda Harris Taylor and Lotsee Patterson

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In the December 2000 issue of Teacher Librarian is "Getting the 'Indian' out of the Cupboard: Using Information Literacy to Pr...
Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Eighth Graders Analyze SIGN OF THE BEAVER

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[Note: This essay submitted by Karen, a classroom teacher, in response to my post (on March 17th) about using Caddie Woodlawn to teach abo...
Sunday, March 18, 2007

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See "naked wild men" (Indians) from Little House on the Prairie at my other blog, Images of Indians in Children's Books.
Saturday, March 17, 2007

Reflections on CADDIE WOODLAWN: Teaching about Stereotypes using Literature

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One evening in 1999, when my daughter, Liz, (then a third-grader) was doing homework, she said "Mom, I don't get it." She’s ex...
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

The LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE Makeover

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According to the January 29, 2007 edition of Newsweek , the acclaimed Little House on the Prairie series is getting a makeover. For the 75...
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