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- Cfp: The Cultures And Letters Of The Black Diaspora / Callaloo Thirtieth Anniversary
CFP: The Cultures and Letters of the Black Diaspora / Callaloo Thirtieth Anniversary The Cultures and Letters of the Black Diaspora Callaloo is currently putting together materials for an issue to be published in the Summer of 2007 as the third of four...
- Randolph Students Chose Mock-caldecott Winners
Here are the final results from our "mock" Caldecott committees: Randolph Elementary School selected Bone Dog by Eric Rohman for their winner. They also picked the following honor books: Rrralph by Lois Elhert; Hooray for Amanda and Her Alligator by...
- Barrett And Barcroft Students Chose Mock-caldecott Award Winners
Here are more results from our "mock" Caldecott committees: Barrett Elementary 2nd graders: Caldecott Winner: Bone Dog by Eric Rohmann Caldecott honor: Perfect Square by Michael Hall Barcroft Elementary 3rd graders: Caldecott Winner: ...
- Do You Agree?
The economy terrifies teens in today's young adult novels, according to NPR citing books such as Veronica Roth's Divergent and Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games. If you think kids are too young to worry about unemployment...
- Character Report Cards?
From the NY Times article "What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?" By Paul Tough: ?...students who persisted in college were not necessarily the ones who had excelled academically at KIPP; they were the ones with exceptional character strengths,...
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Researchers found that people who strongly identified with a fictional character who overcame obstacles to vote were significantly more likely to vote in a real election several days later. Ohio State Research News
The readers in the Ohio State study did become more understanding of gay and black people after they were (let?s not put too fine a point on it) tricked into identifying with them. This type of sleight-of-hand is something only a non-visual medium like prose fiction can pull off. Can you identify? by Laura Miller
A common readerly assumption defaults all major characters to white unless their race is otherwise specified. (And sometimes not even then, as quite a few young fans of ?The Hunger Games? demonstrated by being astonished when a supporting character, clearly described as black in the novel, was played by a black actress in the film.) Can you identify? by Laura Miller
Experience-taking doesn?t happen all the time. It only occurs when people are able to forget about themselves and their own self-concept and self-identity while reading. In one experiment, the researchers found that most college students were unable to undergo experience-taking if they were reading in a cubicle with a mirror. Ohio State Research News
- Cfp: The Cultures And Letters Of The Black Diaspora / Callaloo Thirtieth Anniversary
CFP: The Cultures and Letters of the Black Diaspora / Callaloo Thirtieth Anniversary The Cultures and Letters of the Black Diaspora Callaloo is currently putting together materials for an issue to be published in the Summer of 2007 as the third of four...
- Randolph Students Chose Mock-caldecott Winners
Here are the final results from our "mock" Caldecott committees: Randolph Elementary School selected Bone Dog by Eric Rohman for their winner. They also picked the following honor books: Rrralph by Lois Elhert; Hooray for Amanda and Her Alligator by...
- Barrett And Barcroft Students Chose Mock-caldecott Award Winners
Here are more results from our "mock" Caldecott committees: Barrett Elementary 2nd graders: Caldecott Winner: Bone Dog by Eric Rohmann Caldecott honor: Perfect Square by Michael Hall Barcroft Elementary 3rd graders: Caldecott Winner: ...
- Do You Agree?
The economy terrifies teens in today's young adult novels, according to NPR citing books such as Veronica Roth's Divergent and Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games. If you think kids are too young to worry about unemployment...
- Character Report Cards?
From the NY Times article "What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?" By Paul Tough: ?...students who persisted in college were not necessarily the ones who had excelled academically at KIPP; they were the ones with exceptional character strengths,...