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The absence of differently sized characters has far-reaching implications for students because \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scholastic.com/parents/books-and-reading/raise-a-reader-blog/why-its-important-kids-to-see-themselves-books.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">students’ engagement and motivation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in reading are influenced by the presence of relatable protagonists. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23813377211028256#body-ref-bibr18-23813377211028256\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rudine Sims Bishop’s\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “windows, mirrors and sliding glass doors” framework underscores the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61018/want-kids-to-love-reading-authors-grace-lin-and-kate-messner-share-how-to-find-wonder-in-books\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">roles books play\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for learning about others, reflecting aspects of oneself, and facilitating exploration.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Fat is viewed as profane,” said \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.drdywannasmith.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dywanna Smith\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a former English teacher who focused her dissertation on establishing safe spaces for Black girls to discuss body size. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She emphasized that when fat students lack representation or only encounter characters who reinforce fat bias, it sends the message that they do not belong. This bias, known as fatphobia, involves discrimination against people based on their overweight or obese body size. Experiencing weight stigma has lasting effects: A \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1038/oby.2006.208\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2012 study in the journal Obesity\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> found that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/58357/why-focusing-on-healthy-habits-not-weight-gain-can-better-help-kids\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">weight stigma did not motivate weight loss\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> but can result in isolation and avoidance, among other coping strategies. Overweight or obese kids also are often \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/54257/praise-dont-tease-and-other-tips-to-help-kids-with-their-weight\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">victims of bullying\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which is \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/yv/bullying-suicide-translation-final-a.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">correlated with increased suicide-related behavior\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every student deserves access to books with relatable stories that foster a sense of inclusivity and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/62154/proven-classroom-strategies-for-winning-over-reluctant-readers\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">cultivate a love for reading\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Teachers can explore ways to critically examine the presence of fat characters in literature and seek books that portray fat protagonists in all of their complexity.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Not all representation is good representation\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The literary landscape includes few fat characters who follow well-worn storylines. “Their size is one of the main conflicts of the story and typically it (has) to be resolved with that person losing weight,” said Smith. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JustTeachingELA\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Caitlin O’ Connor\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a language arts teacher from New York who presented on fat positivity at the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://convention.ncte.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">National Council of Teachers of English\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> conference last year, added that plot lines where fat characters lose weight can be harmful because it communicates fat characters are only likable if they are committed to getting smaller. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fat characters are often subject to harmful stereotypes. “It’s not just the presence of fat characters that we need. It’s the good representation of fat characters that we need. We need them to be represented as whole people with stories and lives that are full, that matter, that aren’t just a list of tropes,” said O’Connor. She cited Piggy, a character described as fat from Lord of the Flies, as an example. “He’s constantly called fat and framed as lesser than,” she said, adding that the way that Piggy is treated throughout the book suggests fat people are deserving of name calling and bullying. Other common tropes include framing fat characters as unable to decide what is best for themselves, having fraught relationships with food, or being uninterested in athletic activities. O’Connor emphasized that fat characters should not be confined to proving thin people’s physical superiority or serving as comic relief. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If a teacher has to explore a book with a fat main character that falls into reductive stereotypes, it can be a learning opportunity. O’Connor encouraged teachers to engage students in discussions about character portrayal and patterns across other books. “Having these discussions builds the critical thinking skills and perspectives we want our students to develop,” she said. “We can teach students to recognize and challenge stereotypes through literature.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Literature can debunk stereotypes and tropes\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teachers can curate diverse book collections that feature fat characters in multifaceted roles and that combat anti-fat bias. O’Connor emphasized the power of language, urging teachers to discuss words as a tool that can uplift or oppress. She suggested repositioning the word “fat” as a descriptor, not a derisive term.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When choosing a book with a fat character, Smith recommended that teachers ask whether the character’s portrayal contributes to existing harmful attitudes, prejudices or stereotypes. Additionally, it’s crucial to assess whether the character is allowed to grow and change throughout the narrative.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among Smith and O’Connor’s recommended books for students are Lisa Fipps’ \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/608212/starfish-by-lisa-fipps/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Starfish\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Crystal Maldonado’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/648097/fat-chance-charlie-vega-by-by-crystal-maldonado/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fat Chance Charlie Vega\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Susan Vaught’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://susanvaught.com/book/big-fat-manifesto-2/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Big Fat Manifesto\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and a collection titled \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.harvard.com/book/the_other_f_word/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The (Other) F Word: A Celebration of the Fat & Fierce\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, edited by Angie Manfredi. These narratives explore themes of self-acceptance, challenging societal norms and celebrating diverse bodies. Other recommendations include the anthology \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/every-body-shines-9781547606078/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every Body Shines\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, edited by Cassandra Newbould, Claire Kann’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250192677/ifitmakesyouhappy\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If It Makes You Happy\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Paul Coccia’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.orcabook.com/Cub\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cub\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and Gabby Rivera’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/621079/juliet-takes-a-breath-by-gabby-rivera/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Juliet Takes a Breath\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, each contributing to a tapestry of stories that defy stereotypes and promote body positivity.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Where teachers can start\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Addressing the needs of students, especially those experiencing fatphobia, begins with critical introspection, according to Smith. She suggested making a table with the days of the week and noting what you do to support students and colleagues who are fat. “Oftentimes very little is written down,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some teachers may not know where to start and don’t want to say the wrong thing when broaching discussions about body size. Smith urged educators to familiarize themselves with fatphobia and read fat literature for adults, such as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/565139/the-body-is-not-an-apology-second-edition-by-sonya-renee-taylor/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Body Is Not an Apology\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Sonya Renee Taylor, which advocates for radical self-love to counteract harm caused by bias or fatphobia, and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645819/what-we-dont-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-fat-by-aubrey-gordon/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Aubrey Gordon, which covers how to challenge cultural attitudes and advocate for social justice.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Highlighting the historical intersections of race and body size, Smith considers \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://nyupress.org/9781479886753/fearing-the-black-body/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Sabrina Strings a keystone text. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.routledge.com/Thickening-Fat-Fat-Bodies-Intersectionality-and-Social-Justice/Friedman-Rice-Rinaldi/p/book/9781138580039\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thickening Fat: Fat Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, edited by May Friedman, Carla Rice and Jen Rinaldi, explores fat oppression and activism through various perspectives.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The worst thing teachers can do is to stay silent about fat characters or the lack thereof, Smith said. “Do we really want to be responsible for saying, ‘Because you are fat, you are unworthy of grace, dignity, love and to have your story heard?’” she asked. “In the absence of this discussion, isn’t that what we’re saying already?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Cultivate inclusivity, confront stereotypes, and instill critical thinking skill in students by paying attention to how fat characters are represented in your classroom library.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1706548524,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":1098},"headData":{"title":"A diverse classroom library includes and respects fat characters, too | KQED","description":"Diverse characters in literature play a crucial role in affirming students, disrupting stereotypes and fostering empathy.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"Diverse characters in literature play a crucial role in affirming students, disrupting stereotypes and fostering empathy."},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/63014/a-diverse-classroom-library-includes-and-respects-fat-characters-too","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many teachers excel at stocking their shelves with books featuring characters of diverse \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/62049/choosing-childrens-books-that-include-and-affirm-disability-experiences\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">abilities\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/57026/diversifying-your-classroom-book-collections-avoid-these-7-pitfalls\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">races\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and socioeconomic statuses. However, representation of size diversity, particularly with regard to fat main characters, is often overlooked. The absence of differently sized characters has far-reaching implications for students because \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scholastic.com/parents/books-and-reading/raise-a-reader-blog/why-its-important-kids-to-see-themselves-books.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">students’ engagement and motivation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in reading are influenced by the presence of relatable protagonists. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23813377211028256#body-ref-bibr18-23813377211028256\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rudine Sims Bishop’s\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “windows, mirrors and sliding glass doors” framework underscores the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61018/want-kids-to-love-reading-authors-grace-lin-and-kate-messner-share-how-to-find-wonder-in-books\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">roles books play\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for learning about others, reflecting aspects of oneself, and facilitating exploration.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Fat is viewed as profane,” said \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.drdywannasmith.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dywanna Smith\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a former English teacher who focused her dissertation on establishing safe spaces for Black girls to discuss body size. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She emphasized that when fat students lack representation or only encounter characters who reinforce fat bias, it sends the message that they do not belong. This bias, known as fatphobia, involves discrimination against people based on their overweight or obese body size. Experiencing weight stigma has lasting effects: A \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1038/oby.2006.208\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2012 study in the journal Obesity\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> found that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/58357/why-focusing-on-healthy-habits-not-weight-gain-can-better-help-kids\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">weight stigma did not motivate weight loss\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> but can result in isolation and avoidance, among other coping strategies. Overweight or obese kids also are often \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/54257/praise-dont-tease-and-other-tips-to-help-kids-with-their-weight\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">victims of bullying\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which is \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/yv/bullying-suicide-translation-final-a.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">correlated with increased suicide-related behavior\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every student deserves access to books with relatable stories that foster a sense of inclusivity and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/62154/proven-classroom-strategies-for-winning-over-reluctant-readers\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">cultivate a love for reading\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Teachers can explore ways to critically examine the presence of fat characters in literature and seek books that portray fat protagonists in all of their complexity.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Not all representation is good representation\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The literary landscape includes few fat characters who follow well-worn storylines. “Their size is one of the main conflicts of the story and typically it (has) to be resolved with that person losing weight,” said Smith. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JustTeachingELA\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Caitlin O’ Connor\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a language arts teacher from New York who presented on fat positivity at the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://convention.ncte.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">National Council of Teachers of English\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> conference last year, added that plot lines where fat characters lose weight can be harmful because it communicates fat characters are only likable if they are committed to getting smaller. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fat characters are often subject to harmful stereotypes. “It’s not just the presence of fat characters that we need. It’s the good representation of fat characters that we need. We need them to be represented as whole people with stories and lives that are full, that matter, that aren’t just a list of tropes,” said O’Connor. She cited Piggy, a character described as fat from Lord of the Flies, as an example. “He’s constantly called fat and framed as lesser than,” she said, adding that the way that Piggy is treated throughout the book suggests fat people are deserving of name calling and bullying. Other common tropes include framing fat characters as unable to decide what is best for themselves, having fraught relationships with food, or being uninterested in athletic activities. O’Connor emphasized that fat characters should not be confined to proving thin people’s physical superiority or serving as comic relief. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If a teacher has to explore a book with a fat main character that falls into reductive stereotypes, it can be a learning opportunity. O’Connor encouraged teachers to engage students in discussions about character portrayal and patterns across other books. “Having these discussions builds the critical thinking skills and perspectives we want our students to develop,” she said. “We can teach students to recognize and challenge stereotypes through literature.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Literature can debunk stereotypes and tropes\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teachers can curate diverse book collections that feature fat characters in multifaceted roles and that combat anti-fat bias. O’Connor emphasized the power of language, urging teachers to discuss words as a tool that can uplift or oppress. She suggested repositioning the word “fat” as a descriptor, not a derisive term.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When choosing a book with a fat character, Smith recommended that teachers ask whether the character’s portrayal contributes to existing harmful attitudes, prejudices or stereotypes. Additionally, it’s crucial to assess whether the character is allowed to grow and change throughout the narrative.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among Smith and O’Connor’s recommended books for students are Lisa Fipps’ \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/608212/starfish-by-lisa-fipps/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Starfish\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Crystal Maldonado’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/648097/fat-chance-charlie-vega-by-by-crystal-maldonado/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fat Chance Charlie Vega\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Susan Vaught’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://susanvaught.com/book/big-fat-manifesto-2/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Big Fat Manifesto\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and a collection titled \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.harvard.com/book/the_other_f_word/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The (Other) F Word: A Celebration of the Fat & Fierce\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, edited by Angie Manfredi. These narratives explore themes of self-acceptance, challenging societal norms and celebrating diverse bodies. Other recommendations include the anthology \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/every-body-shines-9781547606078/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every Body Shines\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, edited by Cassandra Newbould, Claire Kann’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250192677/ifitmakesyouhappy\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If It Makes You Happy\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Paul Coccia’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.orcabook.com/Cub\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cub\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and Gabby Rivera’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/621079/juliet-takes-a-breath-by-gabby-rivera/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Juliet Takes a Breath\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, each contributing to a tapestry of stories that defy stereotypes and promote body positivity.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Where teachers can start\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Addressing the needs of students, especially those experiencing fatphobia, begins with critical introspection, according to Smith. She suggested making a table with the days of the week and noting what you do to support students and colleagues who are fat. “Oftentimes very little is written down,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some teachers may not know where to start and don’t want to say the wrong thing when broaching discussions about body size. Smith urged educators to familiarize themselves with fatphobia and read fat literature for adults, such as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/565139/the-body-is-not-an-apology-second-edition-by-sonya-renee-taylor/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Body Is Not an Apology\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Sonya Renee Taylor, which advocates for radical self-love to counteract harm caused by bias or fatphobia, and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645819/what-we-dont-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-fat-by-aubrey-gordon/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Aubrey Gordon, which covers how to challenge cultural attitudes and advocate for social justice.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Highlighting the historical intersections of race and body size, Smith considers \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://nyupress.org/9781479886753/fearing-the-black-body/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Sabrina Strings a keystone text. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.routledge.com/Thickening-Fat-Fat-Bodies-Intersectionality-and-Social-Justice/Friedman-Rice-Rinaldi/p/book/9781138580039\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thickening Fat: Fat Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, edited by May Friedman, Carla Rice and Jen Rinaldi, explores fat oppression and activism through various perspectives.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The worst thing teachers can do is to stay silent about fat characters or the lack thereof, Smith said. “Do we really want to be responsible for saying, ‘Because you are fat, you are unworthy of grace, dignity, love and to have your story heard?’” she asked. “In the absence of this discussion, isn’t that what we’re saying already?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/63014/a-diverse-classroom-library-includes-and-respects-fat-characters-too","authors":["11721"],"categories":["mindshift_21512","mindshift_21280","mindshift_193"],"tags":["mindshift_21250","mindshift_20818","mindshift_21561","mindshift_20997","mindshift_843","mindshift_268","mindshift_20564","mindshift_21277","mindshift_20770","mindshift_96","mindshift_550","mindshift_825"],"featImg":"mindshift_63016","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_63035":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_63035","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"63035","score":null,"sort":[1706552175000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-secret-shelf-of-banned-books-thrives-in-a-texas-school-under-the-nose-of-censors","title":"A secret shelf of banned books thrives in a Texas school, under the nose of censors","publishDate":1706552175,"format":"standard","headTitle":"A secret shelf of banned books thrives in a Texas school, under the nose of censors | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>In the far, far suburbs of Houston, Texas, three teenagers are talking at a coffee shop about a clandestine bookshelf in their public school classroom. It’s filled with books that have been challenged or banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the books that I’ve read are books like \u003cem>Hood Feminism\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Poet X\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Gabi, A Girl in Pieces\u003c/em>,” says one of the girls. She’s a 17-year-old senior with round glasses and long braids. The books, she says, sparked her feminist consciousness. “I just see, especially in my community, a lot of women being talked down upon and those books [were] really nice to read.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These students live in a state that has banned more books than nearly any other, \u003ca href=\"https://pen.org/press-release/pen-america-joins-seven-other-groups-to-support-lawsuit-to-overturn-texas-book-ban-law-as-unconstitutional/\">according to PEN America\u003c/a>. The Texas State Board of Education \u003ca href=\"https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2023-04-19/texas-house-advances-bill-that-would-remove-sexually-explicit-books-from-school-libraries\">passed a policy in late 2023\u003c/a> prohibiting what it calls “sexually explicit, pervasively vulgar or educationally unsuitable books in public schools.” Over the past two years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hppr.org/hppr-news/2023-09-21/a-teacher-in-texas-was-fired-for-reading-from-an-anne-frank-graphic-novel\">Texas teachers have lost jobs \u003c/a>or been \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/transgender-student-texas-grapevine-podcast-rcna118116\">pressured to resign\u003c/a> after making challenged books available to students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teacher who created this bookshelf could become a target for far right-wing groups. That’s why NPR is not naming her, nor her students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want to jeopardize our teacher in any way, or the bookshelf,” another teenager explains. Until recently, he says, he was not naturally inclined toward reading. But the secret bookshelf opened a world of characters and situations he immediately related to. “Just to see Latinos, like LGBTQ,” he says. “That’s not something you really see in our community, or it’s not very well represented at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secret bookshelf began in late 2021, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/28/1050013664/texas-lawmaker-matt-krause-launches-inquiry-into-850-books\">then-state Rep. Matt Krause sent public schools a list of 850 books\u003c/a> he wanted banned from schools. They might, he said, “make students feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress because of their race or sex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That made this teacher furious. “The books that make you uncomfortable are the books that make you think,” she told NPR. “Isn’t that what school is supposed to do? It’s supposed to make you think?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She swung into action, calling friends to support a bookshelf that would include all of the books Krause wanted banned. Then she enlisted a student to put it together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went through the list and found the ones that I thought were cool,” he recalled to NPR over a London Fog latte. “And then she gave me her [credit] card and I bought them. It was a lot of gay books, I remember that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same student came out as trans to his family while in high school. “I wouldn’t call them supportive, so I had to do a lot of sneaking around,” he said quietly. Now 19, he’s graduated and works as a host in a restaurant while deciding on his next move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having these books, having these stories out there meant a lot to me, because I felt seen,” he said. Especially meaningful, he added, during a fraught time when Texas lawmakers banned transition-related care for teenagers. “Because of the way the laws are going for trans people especially,” he said, “it could be assumed that [my teacher is] grooming kids. And that would be terrible because that’s not what she’s doing at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR repeatedly reached out to former Texas lawmaker Matt Krause for comment and got no response. He is currently running for county commissioner in the Fort Worth area. The chief of communications for the public school district thanked NPR for “highlighting this very important topic,” but said, “we’re going to pass on this opportunity,” when asked to comment on how administrators are implementing policies around books that have been challenged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been seeing a climate of fear — and a variety of self-censorship — going on by school leaders or librarians who do not understand the implications of the law or are fearful for their jobs,” said Carolyn Foote. She’s a retired English teacher and librarian who co-created the activist group \u003ca href=\"https://www.txfreadomfighters.us/\">Texas FReadom Fighters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kasey Meehan of the free speech advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://pen.org/\">PEN America\u003c/a> says she’s watched things in Texas escalate. She points to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/20/texas-teacher-fired-anne-frank-book-ban\">a teacher fired last year\u003c/a> for sharing a graphic novel with her students that showed Anne Frank having a romantic daydream about another girl. Another teacher \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/transgender-student-texas-grapevine-podcast-rcna118116\">featured on an NBC podcast\u003c/a> left her job under pressure after making literature available to students featuring a positive transgender character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parents are taking books from schools and bringing them to police or sheriff offices and accusing librarians and educators of providing sexually explicit material to students,” Meehan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does make me nervous,” admitted the Houston teacher with the secret bookshelf. “I mean, this is absolutely silly that I am not free to talk about books without giving my name and worrying about repercussions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point, she hopes, it will no longer have to be a secret. Earlier this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals blocked part of a recently passed state bill, known as HB 900, that would have required booksellers and publishers to rate any books sold to schools for sexual content. This was seen as a victory for freedom-to-read activists, but some of them noted to NPR that HB 900 still contains dangerously vague language about material prohibited in school and no clear guidelines about enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do believe that book banning is going to go away,” the teacher says, firmly. But for now she adds, “I intend for this library to just keep growing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2024 NPR. 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It’s filled with books that have been challenged or banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the books that I’ve read are books like \u003cem>Hood Feminism\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Poet X\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Gabi, A Girl in Pieces\u003c/em>,” says one of the girls. She’s a 17-year-old senior with round glasses and long braids. The books, she says, sparked her feminist consciousness. “I just see, especially in my community, a lot of women being talked down upon and those books [were] really nice to read.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These students live in a state that has banned more books than nearly any other, \u003ca href=\"https://pen.org/press-release/pen-america-joins-seven-other-groups-to-support-lawsuit-to-overturn-texas-book-ban-law-as-unconstitutional/\">according to PEN America\u003c/a>. The Texas State Board of Education \u003ca href=\"https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2023-04-19/texas-house-advances-bill-that-would-remove-sexually-explicit-books-from-school-libraries\">passed a policy in late 2023\u003c/a> prohibiting what it calls “sexually explicit, pervasively vulgar or educationally unsuitable books in public schools.” Over the past two years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hppr.org/hppr-news/2023-09-21/a-teacher-in-texas-was-fired-for-reading-from-an-anne-frank-graphic-novel\">Texas teachers have lost jobs \u003c/a>or been \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/transgender-student-texas-grapevine-podcast-rcna118116\">pressured to resign\u003c/a> after making challenged books available to students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teacher who created this bookshelf could become a target for far right-wing groups. That’s why NPR is not naming her, nor her students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want to jeopardize our teacher in any way, or the bookshelf,” another teenager explains. Until recently, he says, he was not naturally inclined toward reading. But the secret bookshelf opened a world of characters and situations he immediately related to. “Just to see Latinos, like LGBTQ,” he says. “That’s not something you really see in our community, or it’s not very well represented at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secret bookshelf began in late 2021, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/28/1050013664/texas-lawmaker-matt-krause-launches-inquiry-into-850-books\">then-state Rep. 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It was a lot of gay books, I remember that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same student came out as trans to his family while in high school. “I wouldn’t call them supportive, so I had to do a lot of sneaking around,” he said quietly. Now 19, he’s graduated and works as a host in a restaurant while deciding on his next move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having these books, having these stories out there meant a lot to me, because I felt seen,” he said. Especially meaningful, he added, during a fraught time when Texas lawmakers banned transition-related care for teenagers. “Because of the way the laws are going for trans people especially,” he said, “it could be assumed that [my teacher is] grooming kids. And that would be terrible because that’s not what she’s doing at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR repeatedly reached out to former Texas lawmaker Matt Krause for comment and got no response. He is currently running for county commissioner in the Fort Worth area. The chief of communications for the public school district thanked NPR for “highlighting this very important topic,” but said, “we’re going to pass on this opportunity,” when asked to comment on how administrators are implementing policies around books that have been challenged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been seeing a climate of fear — and a variety of self-censorship — going on by school leaders or librarians who do not understand the implications of the law or are fearful for their jobs,” said Carolyn Foote. She’s a retired English teacher and librarian who co-created the activist group \u003ca href=\"https://www.txfreadomfighters.us/\">Texas FReadom Fighters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kasey Meehan of the free speech advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://pen.org/\">PEN America\u003c/a> says she’s watched things in Texas escalate. She points to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/20/texas-teacher-fired-anne-frank-book-ban\">a teacher fired last year\u003c/a> for sharing a graphic novel with her students that showed Anne Frank having a romantic daydream about another girl. Another teacher \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/transgender-student-texas-grapevine-podcast-rcna118116\">featured on an NBC podcast\u003c/a> left her job under pressure after making literature available to students featuring a positive transgender character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parents are taking books from schools and bringing them to police or sheriff offices and accusing librarians and educators of providing sexually explicit material to students,” Meehan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does make me nervous,” admitted the Houston teacher with the secret bookshelf. “I mean, this is absolutely silly that I am not free to talk about books without giving my name and worrying about repercussions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point, she hopes, it will no longer have to be a secret. Earlier this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals blocked part of a recently passed state bill, known as HB 900, that would have required booksellers and publishers to rate any books sold to schools for sexual content. This was seen as a victory for freedom-to-read activists, but some of them noted to NPR that HB 900 still contains dangerously vague language about material prohibited in school and no clear guidelines about enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do believe that book banning is going to go away,” the teacher says, firmly. But for now she adds, “I intend for this library to just keep growing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=A+secret+shelf+of+banned+books+thrives+in+a+Texas+school%2C+under+the+nose+of+censors&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/63035/a-secret-shelf-of-banned-books-thrives-in-a-texas-school-under-the-nose-of-censors","authors":["byline_mindshift_63035"],"categories":["mindshift_194"],"tags":["mindshift_21516","mindshift_21657","mindshift_20646","mindshift_21255","mindshift_21339","mindshift_20564","mindshift_21284","mindshift_550","mindshift_21605","mindshift_21591","mindshift_21451"],"featImg":"mindshift_63036","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_60775":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_60775","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"60775","score":null,"sort":[1673023141000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-kids-books-can-teach-us-about-economics","title":"How kids' books can teach us about economics","publishDate":1673023141,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>Economics lessons are all around us–at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/15/1111850221/best-by-sell-by-use-by\">grocery store\u003c/a>, in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/09/1135639385/libraries-publishers-ebooks-e-books-macmillan-protest-amazon-bezos\">library\u003c/a>, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/12/20/1144558447/gift-giving-signaling-search-cost-behavioral-bias\">the way you give gifts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they're even in... picture books!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand how children's literature like the \u003cem>Frog and Toad \u003c/em>booksand \u003cem>Where the Sidewalk Ends\u003c/em> can foster future economists, host Erika Beras joined a third grade class as a guest reader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her eight and nine-year old students-for-the-day explored concepts like credible commitment, exponential growth bias, and the labor market matching process through a range of childrens' classics. They also learned how hard it can be to keep a clear line between economics and politics in today's polarized political climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music: \"\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://npr.sourceaudio.com/track/40059343\">\u003cem>West Green Road\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\" \"\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://npr.sourceaudio.com/track/11213626\">\u003cem>Schools Out\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\" \"\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://npr.sourceaudio.com/track/11220953\">\u003cem>Brady's Revenge\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\" and \"\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://npr.sourceaudio.com/track/11196276\">\u003cem>Bad Boy\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\" \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Help support Planet Money and get bonus episodes by subscribing to Planet Money+ \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/290783428\">\u003cem>in Apple Podcasts\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> or at \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://plus.npr.org/planetmoney\">\u003cem>plus.npr.org/planetmoney\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Always free at these links: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id290783428?mt=2\">\u003cem>Apple Podcasts\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/4FYpq3lSeQMAhqNI81O0Cn\">\u003cem>Spotify\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDI4OS9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbA\">\u003cem>Google Podcasts\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://one.npr.org/\">\u003cem>NPR One\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> or anywhere you get podcasts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Find more Planet Money: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/planetmoney\">\u003cem>Twitter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> / \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#%21/planetmoney?ref=ts\">\u003cem>Facebook\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> / \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/planetmoney/\">\u003cem>Instagram\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> / \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@planetmoney\">\u003cem>TikTok\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> our weekly \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/newsletter/money\">\u003cem>Newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+economics+lessons+in+kids%27+books&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"All sorts of lessons (even about economics) can be learned from kids' books. 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They also learned how hard it can be to keep a clear line between economics and politics in today's polarized political climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music: \"\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://npr.sourceaudio.com/track/40059343\">\u003cem>West Green Road\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\" \"\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://npr.sourceaudio.com/track/11213626\">\u003cem>Schools Out\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\" \"\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://npr.sourceaudio.com/track/11220953\">\u003cem>Brady's Revenge\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\" and \"\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://npr.sourceaudio.com/track/11196276\">\u003cem>Bad Boy\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\" \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Help support Planet Money and get bonus episodes by subscribing to Planet Money+ \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/290783428\">\u003cem>in Apple Podcasts\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> or at \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://plus.npr.org/planetmoney\">\u003cem>plus.npr.org/planetmoney\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Always free at these links: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id290783428?mt=2\">\u003cem>Apple Podcasts\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/4FYpq3lSeQMAhqNI81O0Cn\">\u003cem>Spotify\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDI4OS9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbA\">\u003cem>Google Podcasts\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://one.npr.org/\">\u003cem>NPR One\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> or anywhere you get podcasts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Find more Planet Money: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/planetmoney\">\u003cem>Twitter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> / \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#%21/planetmoney?ref=ts\">\u003cem>Facebook\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> / \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/planetmoney/\">\u003cem>Instagram\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> / \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@planetmoney\">\u003cem>TikTok\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> our weekly \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/newsletter/money\">\u003cem>Newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+economics+lessons+in+kids%27+books&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/60775/how-kids-books-can-teach-us-about-economics","authors":["byline_mindshift_60775"],"categories":["mindshift_21014"],"tags":["mindshift_21524","mindshift_21527","mindshift_21525","mindshift_1024","mindshift_20564","mindshift_21526"],"featImg":"mindshift_60776","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_55297":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_55297","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"55297","score":null,"sort":[1581406957000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"who-inspired-the-backstory-for-the-old-truck","title":"Who Inspired the Backstory for 'The Old Truck'?","publishDate":1581406957,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://thepumphreybrothers.com/about\">Jarrett and Jerome Pumphrey\u003c/a> have been \"making stuff\" together since they were kids. They grew up in a family of four brothers, and from a young age, Jarrett says, he and Jerome \"just clicked.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their latest project is a particularly special one, because it's the first time they've created a book that they \u003cem>both\u003c/em> authored and illustrated. Inspiration for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/801212311/the-old-truck\">\u003cem>The Old Truck\u003c/em>\u003c/a> came when Jerome was driving through central Texas, on his way to visit Jarrett. As he passed farm after farm, he saw old, aging trucks sitting out in the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's such an iconic image,\" Jerome says. \"But it makes you wonder: What's the story that could be behind that truck or the family that lives there?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55299\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-55299\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_1_custom-9f6d4a0935bd4dd358d332f6bfb432a5ad38316e-e1581406083628.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1166\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"On a small farm, an old truck worked hard.\" \u003ccite>(Norton Young Readers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So the brothers decided to write and illustrate a story about a family and a farm — all centered around a pickup truck that more or less stays in one place throughout the book. Around the truck, seasons change, years pass, and before long, the little girl from the beginning of the story has taken over the family farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making every spread feel different was \"a bit challenging\" Jerome says. But by placing the truck consistent across every page, he and Jarrett \"were reinforcing the idea of the truck being a permanent part of life on the farm and in the girl's life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-55306\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_2_custom-407fff05950c7e056835c2afdef0adefb1f607a0-s1200-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"723\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_2_custom-407fff05950c7e056835c2afdef0adefb1f607a0-s1200-c85.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_2_custom-407fff05950c7e056835c2afdef0adefb1f607a0-s1200-c85-160x96.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_2_custom-407fff05950c7e056835c2afdef0adefb1f607a0-s1200-c85-800x482.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_2_custom-407fff05950c7e056835c2afdef0adefb1f607a0-s1200-c85-768x463.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_2_custom-407fff05950c7e056835c2afdef0adefb1f607a0-s1200-c85-1020x615.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers handmade more than 250 stamps to create the artwork in the book. \"We set up these rules like: We wouldn't use the same stamp on the same spread multiple times.\" Jarrett explains. The goal was to \"make sure that each spread was unique and special.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55301\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-55301 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/process-2_enl-58adcbfee95f1a6f60b2effcc5dcf98e1d57a45b-e1581406288977.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pumphreys handmade more than 250 stamps to illustrate the book. \"We wanted to create something that would feel timeless,\" Jerome says. Norton Young Readers\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They'd work together at Jarrett's house — he and Jerome now live five minutes apart in Austin, Texas. \"We do have disagreements — obviously we're brothers and we don't see eye to eye on everything — but for the most part ... we can find a place where it just clicks,\" Jarrett says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It helps that they've \"been making stuff together for a really long time,\" Jarrett says — and that their family history offers them shared points of reference and inspiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had all these women in our lives growing up — our mom, our grandmothers, our great grandmother ... strong women who really showed us what it was like to persist,\" Jarrett explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55307\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_3_custom-865421e0fe207bf480fb0f6c29680f0bbf6658c0-s1200-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"726\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_3_custom-865421e0fe207bf480fb0f6c29680f0bbf6658c0-s1200-c85.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_3_custom-865421e0fe207bf480fb0f6c29680f0bbf6658c0-s1200-c85-160x97.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_3_custom-865421e0fe207bf480fb0f6c29680f0bbf6658c0-s1200-c85-800x484.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_3_custom-865421e0fe207bf480fb0f6c29680f0bbf6658c0-s1200-c85-768x465.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_3_custom-865421e0fe207bf480fb0f6c29680f0bbf6658c0-s1200-c85-1020x617.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of their grandmothers worked for the U.S. Post Office in the segregated South. \"They were black women working in a place that was dominated by males, so they were putting up with a \u003cem>lot,\u003c/em>\" Jarrett says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of their great grandmothers picked cotton and saved and saved until she could finally purchase her own farm in Louisiana — and the family still owns it. \"She said: Never sell that property because she picked a lot of cotton to pay for that. ...\" Jerome recalls. \"I really respect that and would like to accomplish some things in my life that I can look back on and be really proud of.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55303\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-55303\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/theoldtruck_irl_enl-3b54fb4e9c85b8b92eefde3ba4d692bd734e8f63-e1581406400718.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jarrett Pumphrey is now the proud owner of his own old truck — a 1956 Ford F100. You can \u003ca href=\"//thepumphreybrothers.com/the-old-truck-irl%E2%80%9D\">follow his progress restoring it here\u003c/a>. \u003ccite>(Norton Young Readers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jarrett says his great grandmother's tenacity is something he was lucky to have learned growing up, and he hopes to pass it on to his own children: \"Stick to it, work hard, get what you want to get, and do what you want to do,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And speaking of getting what you want to get ... after the brothers finished working on the book, Jarrett was inspired to go out and get his \u003cem>own \u003c/em>old truck. \"It's a 1956 Ford F100,\" he says. \"I started working on it right away — I stripped it down. It's all the way down to the frame now. ... It's a lot harder in real life to restore a truck than it was in the book.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jarrett's hoping to get his truck up and running by the summer. He wants to drive it around to local schools, where he and Jerome will be sharing the story of \u003cem>The Old Truck\u003c/em> — about family, farm life, hard work, and persistence — to a new generation of kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55308\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_4_custom-fd0ff99d6eb6a6f582b2a982dc778bb881b44660-s1200-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_4_custom-fd0ff99d6eb6a6f582b2a982dc778bb881b44660-s1200-c85.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_4_custom-fd0ff99d6eb6a6f582b2a982dc778bb881b44660-s1200-c85-160x96.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_4_custom-fd0ff99d6eb6a6f582b2a982dc778bb881b44660-s1200-c85-800x481.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_4_custom-fd0ff99d6eb6a6f582b2a982dc778bb881b44660-s1200-c85-768x461.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_4_custom-fd0ff99d6eb6a6f582b2a982dc778bb881b44660-s1200-c85-1020x613.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Barrie Hardymon edited this interview for broadcast. Beth Novey adapted it for the Web.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Ever+Wonder+About+That+%27Old+Truck%27%3F+2+Brothers+Wrote+Its+Backstory&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Jerome and Jarrett Pumphrey have worked together on creative projects since they were kids. Their new book — illustrated with 250+ stamps — is about family, farm life, determination and hard work.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1581406957,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":771},"headData":{"title":"Who Inspired the Backstory for 'The Old Truck'? | KQED","description":"Jerome and Jarrett Pumphrey have worked together on creative projects since they were kids. 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They grew up in a family of four brothers, and from a young age, Jarrett says, he and Jerome \"just clicked.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their latest project is a particularly special one, because it's the first time they've created a book that they \u003cem>both\u003c/em> authored and illustrated. Inspiration for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/801212311/the-old-truck\">\u003cem>The Old Truck\u003c/em>\u003c/a> came when Jerome was driving through central Texas, on his way to visit Jarrett. As he passed farm after farm, he saw old, aging trucks sitting out in the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's such an iconic image,\" Jerome says. \"But it makes you wonder: What's the story that could be behind that truck or the family that lives there?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55299\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-55299\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_1_custom-9f6d4a0935bd4dd358d332f6bfb432a5ad38316e-e1581406083628.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1166\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"On a small farm, an old truck worked hard.\" \u003ccite>(Norton Young Readers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So the brothers decided to write and illustrate a story about a family and a farm — all centered around a pickup truck that more or less stays in one place throughout the book. Around the truck, seasons change, years pass, and before long, the little girl from the beginning of the story has taken over the family farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making every spread feel different was \"a bit challenging\" Jerome says. But by placing the truck consistent across every page, he and Jarrett \"were reinforcing the idea of the truck being a permanent part of life on the farm and in the girl's life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-55306\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_2_custom-407fff05950c7e056835c2afdef0adefb1f607a0-s1200-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"723\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_2_custom-407fff05950c7e056835c2afdef0adefb1f607a0-s1200-c85.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_2_custom-407fff05950c7e056835c2afdef0adefb1f607a0-s1200-c85-160x96.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_2_custom-407fff05950c7e056835c2afdef0adefb1f607a0-s1200-c85-800x482.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_2_custom-407fff05950c7e056835c2afdef0adefb1f607a0-s1200-c85-768x463.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_2_custom-407fff05950c7e056835c2afdef0adefb1f607a0-s1200-c85-1020x615.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers handmade more than 250 stamps to create the artwork in the book. \"We set up these rules like: We wouldn't use the same stamp on the same spread multiple times.\" Jarrett explains. The goal was to \"make sure that each spread was unique and special.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55301\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-55301 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/process-2_enl-58adcbfee95f1a6f60b2effcc5dcf98e1d57a45b-e1581406288977.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pumphreys handmade more than 250 stamps to illustrate the book. \"We wanted to create something that would feel timeless,\" Jerome says. Norton Young Readers\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They'd work together at Jarrett's house — he and Jerome now live five minutes apart in Austin, Texas. \"We do have disagreements — obviously we're brothers and we don't see eye to eye on everything — but for the most part ... we can find a place where it just clicks,\" Jarrett says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It helps that they've \"been making stuff together for a really long time,\" Jarrett says — and that their family history offers them shared points of reference and inspiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had all these women in our lives growing up — our mom, our grandmothers, our great grandmother ... strong women who really showed us what it was like to persist,\" Jarrett explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55307\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_3_custom-865421e0fe207bf480fb0f6c29680f0bbf6658c0-s1200-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"726\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_3_custom-865421e0fe207bf480fb0f6c29680f0bbf6658c0-s1200-c85.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_3_custom-865421e0fe207bf480fb0f6c29680f0bbf6658c0-s1200-c85-160x97.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_3_custom-865421e0fe207bf480fb0f6c29680f0bbf6658c0-s1200-c85-800x484.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_3_custom-865421e0fe207bf480fb0f6c29680f0bbf6658c0-s1200-c85-768x465.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_3_custom-865421e0fe207bf480fb0f6c29680f0bbf6658c0-s1200-c85-1020x617.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of their grandmothers worked for the U.S. Post Office in the segregated South. \"They were black women working in a place that was dominated by males, so they were putting up with a \u003cem>lot,\u003c/em>\" Jarrett says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of their great grandmothers picked cotton and saved and saved until she could finally purchase her own farm in Louisiana — and the family still owns it. \"She said: Never sell that property because she picked a lot of cotton to pay for that. ...\" Jerome recalls. \"I really respect that and would like to accomplish some things in my life that I can look back on and be really proud of.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55303\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-55303\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/theoldtruck_irl_enl-3b54fb4e9c85b8b92eefde3ba4d692bd734e8f63-e1581406400718.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jarrett Pumphrey is now the proud owner of his own old truck — a 1956 Ford F100. You can \u003ca href=\"//thepumphreybrothers.com/the-old-truck-irl%E2%80%9D\">follow his progress restoring it here\u003c/a>. \u003ccite>(Norton Young Readers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jarrett says his great grandmother's tenacity is something he was lucky to have learned growing up, and he hopes to pass it on to his own children: \"Stick to it, work hard, get what you want to get, and do what you want to do,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And speaking of getting what you want to get ... after the brothers finished working on the book, Jarrett was inspired to go out and get his \u003cem>own \u003c/em>old truck. \"It's a 1956 Ford F100,\" he says. \"I started working on it right away — I stripped it down. It's all the way down to the frame now. ... It's a lot harder in real life to restore a truck than it was in the book.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jarrett's hoping to get his truck up and running by the summer. He wants to drive it around to local schools, where he and Jerome will be sharing the story of \u003cem>The Old Truck\u003c/em> — about family, farm life, hard work, and persistence — to a new generation of kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55308\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_4_custom-fd0ff99d6eb6a6f582b2a982dc778bb881b44660-s1200-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_4_custom-fd0ff99d6eb6a6f582b2a982dc778bb881b44660-s1200-c85.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_4_custom-fd0ff99d6eb6a6f582b2a982dc778bb881b44660-s1200-c85-160x96.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_4_custom-fd0ff99d6eb6a6f582b2a982dc778bb881b44660-s1200-c85-800x481.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_4_custom-fd0ff99d6eb6a6f582b2a982dc778bb881b44660-s1200-c85-768x461.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/02/oldtruck_txt_spreads_npr_page_4_custom-fd0ff99d6eb6a6f582b2a982dc778bb881b44660-s1200-c85-1020x613.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Barrie Hardymon edited this interview for broadcast. Beth Novey adapted it for the Web.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Ever+Wonder+About+That+%27Old+Truck%27%3F+2+Brothers+Wrote+Its+Backstory&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/55297/who-inspired-the-backstory-for-the-old-truck","authors":["byline_mindshift_55297"],"categories":["mindshift_194"],"tags":["mindshift_972","mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040","mindshift_21332","mindshift_20564","mindshift_550"],"featImg":"mindshift_55298","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_54477":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_54477","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"54477","score":null,"sort":[1569219288000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"friendship-ibs-and-transgender-history-three-innovative-ya-graphic-novels","title":"Friendship, IBS and Transgender History: Three Innovative YA Graphic Novels","publishDate":1569219288,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>Get ready to get woozy, get groovy and yell \"Yee-ha!\" September sees the arrival of a handful of audacious new graphic novels aimed at the young-adult crowd. With settings ranging from a contemporary Chinese-American community to the Old West, this trio of books tackles such unexpected topics as irritable bowel syndrome and transgender history with a combination of wit, heart and visual flair. It's a good month to be a preteen — or to read like one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/762843696/stargazing\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-54480 alignleft\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/09/Stargazing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2019/09/Stargazing.jpg 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2019/09/Stargazing-160x232.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/762843696/stargazing\">\u003cstrong>Stargazing\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>by \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/authors/659996711/jen-wang\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ci>Jen Wang\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>Paperback, 1 volume (unpaged)\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Jen Wang, author of the delightful \u003ci>The Prince and the Dressmaker\u003c/i> drew on personal experience for parts of this story, in which a young girl is diagnosed with a brain tumor. (Wang herself had to have a brain tumor removed when she was six.) But much of what's great about \u003ci>Stargazing\u003c/i> has little to do with how Wang handles that subject. The book comes to life thanks to the vividness of its two main characters, Christine and Moon. When Christine's parents rent out their carriage house to a new family, the shy preteen violinist gains an unpredictable, energetic and endlessly beguiling new friend in Moon. Suddenly Christine finds herself signed up to appear in the school talent show — not to play her violin, but to perform in a dance group inspired by Moon's favorite K-Pop star. Moon's effervescence is inspiring to Christine, but also a little scary. Moon says she has visions of people up in space communicating with her. \"That's why I'm so different from everyone,\" she explains. \"I'm actually a celestial being, like the ones in my sketchbook. Someday soon I think they're going to come get me.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Wang is pitch-perfect when it comes to complex relationship dynamics and the subtleties of growing up Asian in America. Her art is a supple balance of quirkiness and relatability. Christine's expressions reacting to her kindly but clueless parents are just priceless. Moon is so suffused with bouncy, chaotic energy, she seems almost to levitate — especially when she's showing Christine new dance moves. \u003ci>Stargazing\u003c/i> really sparkles.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/753513015/guts\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-54481\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/09/Guts-e1569216447943.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"363\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/753513015/guts\">\u003cstrong>Guts\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>by \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/authors/165479482/raina-telgemeier\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ci>Raina Telgemeier\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>Paperback, 224 pages\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">She's stormed bestseller lists and won multiple Eisner Awards with the graphic memoirs \u003ci>Smile\u003c/i> and \u003ci>Sisters\u003c/i>. Now Raina Telgemeier returns with a soul-baring account of her youthful battles with anxiety and irritable bowel syndrome. Featuring Telgemeier's trademarks — bouncy artwork, wry wisdom and plenty of laughs — \u003ci>Guts\u003c/i> finds broad resonance in an unusual problem. Starting around fifth grade, young Raina develops a fixation on, and fear of, throwing up. \"I didn't puke,\" she recalls of one occasion when the feeling seized her. \"But the thought that I might was worse than if I actually had ... 'Sick' isn't quite the right word for it. But something was definitely wrong.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">As she grapples with her fears under a helpful therapist's aegis, she faces a gamut of challenges at school: Michelle, the mean girl who sits next to her in class; the terror-inducing prospect of presenting an oral report; the possibility that her best friend may move away to the other side of town. Telgemeier writes about each new development with nicely modulated optimism, intermingling positivity with an ironical matter-of-factness. When a teacher tells Raina, \"perhaps you and Michelle can become allies instead of adversaries,\" young Raina knows the real message. \"In non-teacher-speak, that means, 'If I'm nice to you, maybe you won't be so mean to me,'\" she thinks. \"You first.\" Telgemeier's down-to-earth style is as winning as ever, making its unusual topic instantly relatable.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/762847080/stage-dreams\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-54482\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/09/Stage-Dreams-e1569216563949.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"313\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/762847080/stage-dreams\">\u003cstrong>Stage Dreams\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>by \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/authors/762847161/melanie-gillman\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ci>Melanie Gillman\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>Paperback, 103 pages\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">As in 2017's \u003ci>As the Crow Flies\u003c/i>, the irresistible attraction in \u003ci>Stage Dreams\u003c/i> is Melanie Gillman's radiant color work. Using colored pencils, Gillman painstakingly fills in layer upon layer of heathery tones until each page seems to breathe. Their glowing, autumnal palette is perfect for this story of heists and hijinks in the Old West. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Fleeing conscription into the Confederate army, Grace, a trans teen from Georgia, boards a stagecoach heading across the New Mexico Territory. In short order she's kidnapped by the notorious Ghost Hawk — actually Flor, a female bandit with dreams of retiring to a goat farm of her very own. (\"Goats?\" asks Grace. \"Only livestock that's useful \u003ci>and\u003c/i> smart,\" Flor explains.) Flor plans to sneak into an upcoming gathering of Southern rail barons to get information she can sell to the Union army. Grace offers to help, and the pair embark on a complicated caper. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">While Gillman's narrative skills have improved since \u003ci>As the Crow Flies\u003c/i>, they still aren't as strong a storyteller as they are an artist. But Grace and Flor are engaging figures, and \u003ci>Stage Dreams'\u003c/i> sweeping lines and dimensional shading are rich pleasures. In an afterward, Gillman offers historical background on trans men in the Confederate army and the American West. Their earnestness and dedication make \u003ci>Stage Dreams\u003c/i> memorable.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Etelka Lehoczky \u003c/em>\u003cem>has written about books for\u003c/em> The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Review of Books \u003cem>and\u003c/em> The New York Times.\u003cem> She tweets at\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_EtelkaL&d=DwMFaQ&c=E2nBno7hEddFhl23N5nD1Q&r=eDR3RhrQF9JBI8Rzx0SRPw&m=vR6dskFG6Pki76w8marL327xnaWSpIVAqnkFp2Pm3ak&s=Mdo8__hjawldjbQthelAboNsxAd-9SFUx24643NrlUM&e=\">@EtelkaL\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Kick+Off+Fall+With+This+Trio+Of+Innovative+YA+Graphic+Novels&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Bold new graphic novels aimed at young adult readers tell stories of transgender identity in the wild west, dealing with anxiety and irritable bowel syndrome, and becoming friends with an unusual new neighbor. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1569219288,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":909},"headData":{"title":"Friendship, IBS and Transgender History: Three Innovative YA Graphic Novels | KQED","description":"Bold new graphic novels aimed at young adult readers tell stories of transgender identity in the wild west, dealing with anxiety and irritable bowel syndrome, and becoming friends with an unusual new neighbor. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"54477 https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=54477","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2019/09/22/friendship-ibs-and-transgender-history-three-innovative-ya-graphic-novels/","disqusTitle":"Friendship, IBS and Transgender History: Three Innovative YA Graphic Novels","nprByline":"Etelka Lehoczky","nprImageAgency":"First Second","nprStoryId":"762842406","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=762842406&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/22/762842406/kick-off-fall-with-this-trio-of-innovative-ya-graphic-novels?ft=nprml&f=762842406","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Sun, 22 Sep 2019 07:00:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Sun, 22 Sep 2019 07:00:26 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Sun, 22 Sep 2019 07:00:26 -0400","path":"/mindshift/54477/friendship-ibs-and-transgender-history-three-innovative-ya-graphic-novels","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Get ready to get woozy, get groovy and yell \"Yee-ha!\" September sees the arrival of a handful of audacious new graphic novels aimed at the young-adult crowd. With settings ranging from a contemporary Chinese-American community to the Old West, this trio of books tackles such unexpected topics as irritable bowel syndrome and transgender history with a combination of wit, heart and visual flair. It's a good month to be a preteen — or to read like one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/762843696/stargazing\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-54480 alignleft\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/09/Stargazing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2019/09/Stargazing.jpg 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2019/09/Stargazing-160x232.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/762843696/stargazing\">\u003cstrong>Stargazing\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>by \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/authors/659996711/jen-wang\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ci>Jen Wang\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>Paperback, 1 volume (unpaged)\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Jen Wang, author of the delightful \u003ci>The Prince and the Dressmaker\u003c/i> drew on personal experience for parts of this story, in which a young girl is diagnosed with a brain tumor. (Wang herself had to have a brain tumor removed when she was six.) But much of what's great about \u003ci>Stargazing\u003c/i> has little to do with how Wang handles that subject. The book comes to life thanks to the vividness of its two main characters, Christine and Moon. When Christine's parents rent out their carriage house to a new family, the shy preteen violinist gains an unpredictable, energetic and endlessly beguiling new friend in Moon. Suddenly Christine finds herself signed up to appear in the school talent show — not to play her violin, but to perform in a dance group inspired by Moon's favorite K-Pop star. Moon's effervescence is inspiring to Christine, but also a little scary. Moon says she has visions of people up in space communicating with her. \"That's why I'm so different from everyone,\" she explains. \"I'm actually a celestial being, like the ones in my sketchbook. Someday soon I think they're going to come get me.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Wang is pitch-perfect when it comes to complex relationship dynamics and the subtleties of growing up Asian in America. Her art is a supple balance of quirkiness and relatability. Christine's expressions reacting to her kindly but clueless parents are just priceless. Moon is so suffused with bouncy, chaotic energy, she seems almost to levitate — especially when she's showing Christine new dance moves. \u003ci>Stargazing\u003c/i> really sparkles.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/753513015/guts\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-54481\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/09/Guts-e1569216447943.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"363\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/753513015/guts\">\u003cstrong>Guts\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>by \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/authors/165479482/raina-telgemeier\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ci>Raina Telgemeier\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>Paperback, 224 pages\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">She's stormed bestseller lists and won multiple Eisner Awards with the graphic memoirs \u003ci>Smile\u003c/i> and \u003ci>Sisters\u003c/i>. Now Raina Telgemeier returns with a soul-baring account of her youthful battles with anxiety and irritable bowel syndrome. Featuring Telgemeier's trademarks — bouncy artwork, wry wisdom and plenty of laughs — \u003ci>Guts\u003c/i> finds broad resonance in an unusual problem. Starting around fifth grade, young Raina develops a fixation on, and fear of, throwing up. \"I didn't puke,\" she recalls of one occasion when the feeling seized her. \"But the thought that I might was worse than if I actually had ... 'Sick' isn't quite the right word for it. But something was definitely wrong.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">As she grapples with her fears under a helpful therapist's aegis, she faces a gamut of challenges at school: Michelle, the mean girl who sits next to her in class; the terror-inducing prospect of presenting an oral report; the possibility that her best friend may move away to the other side of town. Telgemeier writes about each new development with nicely modulated optimism, intermingling positivity with an ironical matter-of-factness. When a teacher tells Raina, \"perhaps you and Michelle can become allies instead of adversaries,\" young Raina knows the real message. \"In non-teacher-speak, that means, 'If I'm nice to you, maybe you won't be so mean to me,'\" she thinks. \"You first.\" Telgemeier's down-to-earth style is as winning as ever, making its unusual topic instantly relatable.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/762847080/stage-dreams\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-54482\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/09/Stage-Dreams-e1569216563949.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"313\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/762847080/stage-dreams\">\u003cstrong>Stage Dreams\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>by \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/authors/762847161/melanie-gillman\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ci>Melanie Gillman\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>Paperback, 103 pages\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">As in 2017's \u003ci>As the Crow Flies\u003c/i>, the irresistible attraction in \u003ci>Stage Dreams\u003c/i> is Melanie Gillman's radiant color work. Using colored pencils, Gillman painstakingly fills in layer upon layer of heathery tones until each page seems to breathe. Their glowing, autumnal palette is perfect for this story of heists and hijinks in the Old West. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Fleeing conscription into the Confederate army, Grace, a trans teen from Georgia, boards a stagecoach heading across the New Mexico Territory. In short order she's kidnapped by the notorious Ghost Hawk — actually Flor, a female bandit with dreams of retiring to a goat farm of her very own. (\"Goats?\" asks Grace. \"Only livestock that's useful \u003ci>and\u003c/i> smart,\" Flor explains.) Flor plans to sneak into an upcoming gathering of Southern rail barons to get information she can sell to the Union army. Grace offers to help, and the pair embark on a complicated caper. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">While Gillman's narrative skills have improved since \u003ci>As the Crow Flies\u003c/i>, they still aren't as strong a storyteller as they are an artist. But Grace and Flor are engaging figures, and \u003ci>Stage Dreams'\u003c/i> sweeping lines and dimensional shading are rich pleasures. In an afterward, Gillman offers historical background on trans men in the Confederate army and the American West. Their earnestness and dedication make \u003ci>Stage Dreams\u003c/i> memorable.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Etelka Lehoczky \u003c/em>\u003cem>has written about books for\u003c/em> The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Review of Books \u003cem>and\u003c/em> The New York Times.\u003cem> She tweets at\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_EtelkaL&d=DwMFaQ&c=E2nBno7hEddFhl23N5nD1Q&r=eDR3RhrQF9JBI8Rzx0SRPw&m=vR6dskFG6Pki76w8marL327xnaWSpIVAqnkFp2Pm3ak&s=Mdo8__hjawldjbQthelAboNsxAd-9SFUx24643NrlUM&e=\">@EtelkaL\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Kick+Off+Fall+With+This+Trio+Of+Innovative+YA+Graphic+Novels&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/54477/friendship-ibs-and-transgender-history-three-innovative-ya-graphic-novels","authors":["byline_mindshift_54477"],"categories":["mindshift_193"],"tags":["mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040","mindshift_20564","mindshift_21158"],"featImg":"mindshift_54478","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_51555":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_51555","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"51555","score":null,"sort":[1530858063000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"applying-the-power-of-stories-to-excite-students-about-science","title":"Applying the Power of Stories to Excite Students About Science","publishDate":1530858063,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>Ed Kang loved science growing up and ended up earning a Ph.D. in neuroscience. But he left academia to teach high school over 10 years ago, believing one of the reasons students at neighborhood schools (non-magnet) in Chicago dislike science is that they don’t have teachers who are passionate about the subject. While teaching at a high-poverty school on Chicago’s South Side, Kang met his future wife, Amy Schwartzbach-Kang, an English teacher. Amy grew up in a family full of scientists, but found the subject dull, rote and uninspiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so many cool things you can do [with science],” Amy said, “and I always wondered if you approached it differently, if someone like me would want to be involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One year, Amy and Ed taught the same group of high school students and decided to experiment with an interdisciplinary unit. In her English class, Amy taught “Chew on This,” a book about fast food and its influence on kids. While the students discussed nutrition science and how it related to their lives, Ed was teaching them in science class about macromolecules in food and how the body absorbs proteins and carbohydrates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we were able to do that type of learning we realized it was really helpful, so we were interested in doing more things like that,” Amy said. They noticed that students who were often checked out in class paid more attention, bringing up things they’d learned in science during the English discussion, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the schedule and structure of traditional high school makes those types of collaborations difficult. Many teachers and administrators are overwhelmingly focused on test scores because of the consequences of poor performance. The type of inventive, cross-disciplinary teaching Amy and Ed wanted to do didn’t seem to fit into those priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>STARTING THE LABORATORY\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many teachers around the country, Amy and Ed started a side hustle, although rather than working for someone else in another field, they wanted the freedom to teach how they believed kids learn best. At \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelaboratorychi.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Laboratory\u003c/a>, Amy and Ed used their unique strengths to develop a science camp based on the stories kids love. Their first creation immersed kids in the world of Harry Potter, weaving in science and engineering along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_51556\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-51556\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp1-e1530297826104.jpg\" alt=\"Students learn survival skills during the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Zombie Apocalypse camp.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1188\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students learn survival skills during the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Zombie Apocalypse camp.\u003cbr>They use math, calculating and measuring to make their own soap. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Amy Schwartzbach-Kang/The Laboratory)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Everything we do, they feel like they’re immersed in the word,” Amy said. “We really try to make them feel like they’re a character in the book and then we use the science and math to support what they’re doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On day one of camp, kids between the ages of 8 and 12 enter The Laboratory through a brick wall -- like wizarding students on their way to the Hogwarts train. They don wizarding robes, are sorted into houses, and spend the first day designing their wands and using circuits to make them light up. They even learn spells based in Latin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our philosophy is that we’re trying to attract those who could really care less about science and chemistry, but they really love these books,” Kang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students are often attracted to the camp for the immersive world and creative play, but stay for the science. As the week progresses they talk about genetics and try to breed their own \u003ca href=\"http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Pygmy_Puff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pygmy Puffs\u003c/a>, like the Weasley twins. Or they are given engineering wizarding challenges to solve in teams, like to design a net to catch an array of Harry Potter creatures -- each a different size and with different magical abilities -- falling from an established height.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re given these scenarios based on the world that they’re going to use engineering to problem-solve,” Amy said. While the two teachers prefer to let the kids tinker, they try to lay out some basic steps so the frustration point isn’t too high. This is supposed to be fun -- and educational -- after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me a long time to embrace this way of teaching,” Ed said. “I’m starting to realize, especially when parents embraced it, that this is actually a great way of teaching.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even now, Ed has a tendency to put too much content into his demonstrations. But that’s where his wife provides a good balance, reminding him to let the story lead and to get students working with their hands sooner rather than later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair started with Harry Potter camp and soon began expanding into Choose Your Own Zombie Apocalypse camp, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Jackson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Percy Jackson\u003c/a> camp and others. As demand grew, Ed decided to quit his teaching job and work on designing experiences for the camp full time. Amy still teaches high school, but finds The Laboratory work essential for her sanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_51558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-51558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2.jpg\" alt='During \"On Training Your Dragon\" camp, students learn about the Vikings and the science behind dragons and magical species. They used Newton’s laws of motion and design-thinking to create a better Viking boat, testing it out in racing challenges against other clans.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1187\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-800x475.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-768x456.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-1020x605.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-1200x712.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-1180x700.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-960x570.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-240x142.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-375x223.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-520x309.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">During \"On Training Your Dragon\" camp, students learn about the Vikings and the science behind dragons and magical species. They used Newton’s laws of motion and design thinking to create a better Viking boat, testing it out in racing challenges against other clans. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Amy Schwartzbach-Kang/The Laboratory)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was getting very burnt out, but this has invigorated me and has helped me see again why I’m doing what I’m doing,” she said. She’s even trying to bring some of what works so well at The Laboratory back to her classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year she worked with students who have special needs, co-teaching in a trigonometry class. She’s constantly trying to relate the material back to the real world and encourages students to rewrite the backstory of their “story problems” into something more interesting. It’s a small step, but she’s seeing it make a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really do want to bring this into the classroom because most of the kids who come to our camp have the means to come to our camp,” Ed said. “You don’t really need to have a Ph.D. to have these lessons. It’s the idea of integrating science within your curriculum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, using stories to get kids excited about everything from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/39949/could-storytelling-be-the-secret-sauce-to-stem-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">computer coding\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/48289/a-literacy-based-strategy-to-help-teachers-integrate-science-skills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">engineering\u003c/a> is gaining popularity with educators around the country. Amy and Ed hope some of that creativity will reach the disadvantaged kids Amy still teaches in Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SPREADING THIS IDEA TO CHICAGO SCHOOLS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of The Laboratory’s best ambassadors to the schools are the kids and parents who have participated during spring, summer and winter breaks. Erica Smith’s son, Whitman, attended Harry Potter camp several summers ago and loved it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_51559\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-51559\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4.jpg\" alt=\"Amy and Ed curate a specific collection of books for each camp: fiction, graphic novels, picture books, non-fiction of varying levels. Reading has become one of the most popular activities at this science camp.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1188\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-800x475.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-768x456.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-1020x606.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-1200x713.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-1180x701.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-960x570.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-240x143.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-375x223.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-520x309.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amy and Ed curate a specific collection of books for each camp: fiction, graphic novels, picture books, nonfiction of varying levels. Reading has become one of the most popular activities at this science camp. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Amy Schwartzbach-Kang/The Laboratory)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He talked about it for weeks; he told all of his teachers about it,” Smith said. When he told his art teacher about the projects he’d done, she got excited, too, eventually writing a grant to integrate science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) within the K-8 curriculum schoolwide. She then used some of the money to fund a field trip to The Laboratory for the whole class. Erica Smith went along as a parent chaperone and was impressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ed Kang designed an experience tailored to the curriculum Whitman’s class was studying about the pilgrims. He explained to the students how the Mayflower wasn’t a well-designed ship and actually had to head back to port for repairs when it set off. He described some of the physics behind seaworthy boats, and tasked them with designing a better model, using only limited supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a lot of different iterations because it reinforced that STEAM/maker mindset that they’ve been learning at school about the evolution of your design,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith is a biochemist and is familiar with the traditional ways of teaching science because she lived it. She doesn’t think that model capitalizes on young students' natural curiosity and energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the reality is that students remember experiences,” Smith said. “They retain what they learn through experience much better than what they retain through lecture and note taking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s been true for her son, Whitman, who acknowledges he likes science and does well in science classes, too. But even years after the Harry Potter camp, he remembers mixing chemicals to make dragon fire and using blow torches to make his own galleons (the money from Harry Potter).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think school’s learning system is pretty good, but I think if we incorporated more of that hands-on learning it would make it: a) more understandable, and b) we learn more,” Whitman said. He’s a kid with an active imagination and love for fantasy, as well as an interest in science, and he thought blending the two was a great idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ed Kang hopes that as more educators focus on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nextgenscience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Next Generation Science Standards\u003c/a>, which emphasize the engineering, problem-solving and thinking skills embedded in the experiences he creates, that more teachers will want to partner with him. He’d love to help coach other teachers so that they can bring this teaching approach to kids from every socioeconomic background in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really difficult for me to think about adding art, all this imagination, and literature into my lessons,” Kang admitted. “I never thought that should drive science.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he can’t deny that his passion for science wasn’t enough to interest the kids he worked with in traditional classrooms. They weren’t doing that much better, they still tuned him out, and no matter how interesting he thought his examples were, they didn’t. His experiences designing for The Laboratory have made him a convert to the power of storytelling to draw students into science. And he stresses that teachers can take small steps toward this kind of interdisciplinary learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The science knowledge is not the most important part here,” Kang emphasizes to elementary school teachers who may not have his background. “We’re trying to get teachers to understand they don’t have to be ginormous experiments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many opportunities for interdisciplinary learning exist in elementary school classrooms that aren’t nearly as involved or elaborate as what The Laboratory does. Teachers just need a little more space and time, and a little less test score pressure, to tap into their inventive sides.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"By exploring the science in stories kids love, these Chicago teachers are creating an interdisciplinary learning experience that's working with students. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1530858165,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":1847},"headData":{"title":"Applying the Power of Stories to Excite Students About Science | KQED","description":"By exploring the science in stories kids love, these Chicago teachers are creating an interdisciplinary learning experience that's working with students. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"51555 https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=51555","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2018/07/05/applying-the-power-of-stories-to-excite-students-about-science/","disqusTitle":"Applying the Power of Stories to Excite Students About Science","path":"/mindshift/51555/applying-the-power-of-stories-to-excite-students-about-science","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ed Kang loved science growing up and ended up earning a Ph.D. in neuroscience. But he left academia to teach high school over 10 years ago, believing one of the reasons students at neighborhood schools (non-magnet) in Chicago dislike science is that they don’t have teachers who are passionate about the subject. While teaching at a high-poverty school on Chicago’s South Side, Kang met his future wife, Amy Schwartzbach-Kang, an English teacher. Amy grew up in a family full of scientists, but found the subject dull, rote and uninspiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so many cool things you can do [with science],” Amy said, “and I always wondered if you approached it differently, if someone like me would want to be involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One year, Amy and Ed taught the same group of high school students and decided to experiment with an interdisciplinary unit. In her English class, Amy taught “Chew on This,” a book about fast food and its influence on kids. While the students discussed nutrition science and how it related to their lives, Ed was teaching them in science class about macromolecules in food and how the body absorbs proteins and carbohydrates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we were able to do that type of learning we realized it was really helpful, so we were interested in doing more things like that,” Amy said. They noticed that students who were often checked out in class paid more attention, bringing up things they’d learned in science during the English discussion, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the schedule and structure of traditional high school makes those types of collaborations difficult. Many teachers and administrators are overwhelmingly focused on test scores because of the consequences of poor performance. The type of inventive, cross-disciplinary teaching Amy and Ed wanted to do didn’t seem to fit into those priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>STARTING THE LABORATORY\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many teachers around the country, Amy and Ed started a side hustle, although rather than working for someone else in another field, they wanted the freedom to teach how they believed kids learn best. At \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelaboratorychi.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Laboratory\u003c/a>, Amy and Ed used their unique strengths to develop a science camp based on the stories kids love. Their first creation immersed kids in the world of Harry Potter, weaving in science and engineering along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_51556\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-51556\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp1-e1530297826104.jpg\" alt=\"Students learn survival skills during the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Zombie Apocalypse camp.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1188\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students learn survival skills during the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Zombie Apocalypse camp.\u003cbr>They use math, calculating and measuring to make their own soap. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Amy Schwartzbach-Kang/The Laboratory)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Everything we do, they feel like they’re immersed in the word,” Amy said. “We really try to make them feel like they’re a character in the book and then we use the science and math to support what they’re doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On day one of camp, kids between the ages of 8 and 12 enter The Laboratory through a brick wall -- like wizarding students on their way to the Hogwarts train. They don wizarding robes, are sorted into houses, and spend the first day designing their wands and using circuits to make them light up. They even learn spells based in Latin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our philosophy is that we’re trying to attract those who could really care less about science and chemistry, but they really love these books,” Kang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students are often attracted to the camp for the immersive world and creative play, but stay for the science. As the week progresses they talk about genetics and try to breed their own \u003ca href=\"http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Pygmy_Puff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pygmy Puffs\u003c/a>, like the Weasley twins. Or they are given engineering wizarding challenges to solve in teams, like to design a net to catch an array of Harry Potter creatures -- each a different size and with different magical abilities -- falling from an established height.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re given these scenarios based on the world that they’re going to use engineering to problem-solve,” Amy said. While the two teachers prefer to let the kids tinker, they try to lay out some basic steps so the frustration point isn’t too high. This is supposed to be fun -- and educational -- after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me a long time to embrace this way of teaching,” Ed said. “I’m starting to realize, especially when parents embraced it, that this is actually a great way of teaching.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even now, Ed has a tendency to put too much content into his demonstrations. But that’s where his wife provides a good balance, reminding him to let the story lead and to get students working with their hands sooner rather than later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair started with Harry Potter camp and soon began expanding into Choose Your Own Zombie Apocalypse camp, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Jackson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Percy Jackson\u003c/a> camp and others. As demand grew, Ed decided to quit his teaching job and work on designing experiences for the camp full time. Amy still teaches high school, but finds The Laboratory work essential for her sanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_51558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-51558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2.jpg\" alt='During \"On Training Your Dragon\" camp, students learn about the Vikings and the science behind dragons and magical species. They used Newton’s laws of motion and design-thinking to create a better Viking boat, testing it out in racing challenges against other clans.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1187\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-800x475.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-768x456.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-1020x605.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-1200x712.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-1180x700.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-960x570.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-240x142.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-375x223.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-520x309.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">During \"On Training Your Dragon\" camp, students learn about the Vikings and the science behind dragons and magical species. They used Newton’s laws of motion and design thinking to create a better Viking boat, testing it out in racing challenges against other clans. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Amy Schwartzbach-Kang/The Laboratory)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was getting very burnt out, but this has invigorated me and has helped me see again why I’m doing what I’m doing,” she said. She’s even trying to bring some of what works so well at The Laboratory back to her classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year she worked with students who have special needs, co-teaching in a trigonometry class. She’s constantly trying to relate the material back to the real world and encourages students to rewrite the backstory of their “story problems” into something more interesting. It’s a small step, but she’s seeing it make a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really do want to bring this into the classroom because most of the kids who come to our camp have the means to come to our camp,” Ed said. “You don’t really need to have a Ph.D. to have these lessons. It’s the idea of integrating science within your curriculum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, using stories to get kids excited about everything from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/39949/could-storytelling-be-the-secret-sauce-to-stem-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">computer coding\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/48289/a-literacy-based-strategy-to-help-teachers-integrate-science-skills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">engineering\u003c/a> is gaining popularity with educators around the country. Amy and Ed hope some of that creativity will reach the disadvantaged kids Amy still teaches in Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SPREADING THIS IDEA TO CHICAGO SCHOOLS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of The Laboratory’s best ambassadors to the schools are the kids and parents who have participated during spring, summer and winter breaks. Erica Smith’s son, Whitman, attended Harry Potter camp several summers ago and loved it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_51559\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-51559\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4.jpg\" alt=\"Amy and Ed curate a specific collection of books for each camp: fiction, graphic novels, picture books, non-fiction of varying levels. Reading has become one of the most popular activities at this science camp.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1188\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-800x475.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-768x456.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-1020x606.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-1200x713.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-1180x701.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-960x570.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-240x143.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-375x223.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-520x309.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amy and Ed curate a specific collection of books for each camp: fiction, graphic novels, picture books, nonfiction of varying levels. Reading has become one of the most popular activities at this science camp. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Amy Schwartzbach-Kang/The Laboratory)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He talked about it for weeks; he told all of his teachers about it,” Smith said. When he told his art teacher about the projects he’d done, she got excited, too, eventually writing a grant to integrate science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) within the K-8 curriculum schoolwide. She then used some of the money to fund a field trip to The Laboratory for the whole class. Erica Smith went along as a parent chaperone and was impressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ed Kang designed an experience tailored to the curriculum Whitman’s class was studying about the pilgrims. He explained to the students how the Mayflower wasn’t a well-designed ship and actually had to head back to port for repairs when it set off. He described some of the physics behind seaworthy boats, and tasked them with designing a better model, using only limited supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a lot of different iterations because it reinforced that STEAM/maker mindset that they’ve been learning at school about the evolution of your design,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith is a biochemist and is familiar with the traditional ways of teaching science because she lived it. She doesn’t think that model capitalizes on young students' natural curiosity and energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the reality is that students remember experiences,” Smith said. “They retain what they learn through experience much better than what they retain through lecture and note taking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s been true for her son, Whitman, who acknowledges he likes science and does well in science classes, too. But even years after the Harry Potter camp, he remembers mixing chemicals to make dragon fire and using blow torches to make his own galleons (the money from Harry Potter).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think school’s learning system is pretty good, but I think if we incorporated more of that hands-on learning it would make it: a) more understandable, and b) we learn more,” Whitman said. He’s a kid with an active imagination and love for fantasy, as well as an interest in science, and he thought blending the two was a great idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ed Kang hopes that as more educators focus on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nextgenscience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Next Generation Science Standards\u003c/a>, which emphasize the engineering, problem-solving and thinking skills embedded in the experiences he creates, that more teachers will want to partner with him. He’d love to help coach other teachers so that they can bring this teaching approach to kids from every socioeconomic background in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really difficult for me to think about adding art, all this imagination, and literature into my lessons,” Kang admitted. “I never thought that should drive science.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he can’t deny that his passion for science wasn’t enough to interest the kids he worked with in traditional classrooms. They weren’t doing that much better, they still tuned him out, and no matter how interesting he thought his examples were, they didn’t. His experiences designing for The Laboratory have made him a convert to the power of storytelling to draw students into science. And he stresses that teachers can take small steps toward this kind of interdisciplinary learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The science knowledge is not the most important part here,” Kang emphasizes to elementary school teachers who may not have his background. “We’re trying to get teachers to understand they don’t have to be ginormous experiments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many opportunities for interdisciplinary learning exist in elementary school classrooms that aren’t nearly as involved or elaborate as what The Laboratory does. Teachers just need a little more space and time, and a little less test score pressure, to tap into their inventive sides.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/51555/applying-the-power-of-stories-to-excite-students-about-science","authors":["234"],"categories":["mindshift_20697"],"tags":["mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040","mindshift_21088","mindshift_20564","mindshift_20946","mindshift_20947","mindshift_391","mindshift_21083"],"featImg":"mindshift_51557","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_50640":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_50640","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"50640","score":null,"sort":[1521440920000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-reading-novels-in-math-class-can-strengthen-student-engagement","title":"How Reading Novels in Math Class Can Strengthen Student Engagement","publishDate":1521440920,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every January, Nashville teacher \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/joelbezaire\">Joel\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/joelbezaire\">Bezaire\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> reads \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/09/09/books-teachers-share-jose-luis-vilson-and-the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">aloud to his students. Sounds pretty standard, right? It would be — for an English class. But Bezaire teaches math. The novel is part of a unit on number sense.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While it’s easy to envision using math picture books in elementary school classrooms, literature for older grades poses a bigger challenge. Can reading fit into the curriculum as the books get longer and the math gets more complex? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bezaire thinks it can, and so does another teacher, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://samjshahresume.weebly.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sam Shah\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, of Brooklyn. The two occupy opposite ends of the secondary math spectrum — seventh-grade pre-algebra and 12th-grade calculus, respectively — and both have found ways to strengthen student engagement through reading.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50798\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 656px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-50798\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire2.png 656w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire2-160x161.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire2-240x242.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire2-375x378.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire2-520x525.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire2-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire2-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire2-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire2-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire2-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire2-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joel Bezaire and class read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Joel Bezaire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Novel study in pre-algebra\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During Bezaire’s \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Curious Incident \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">unit, each period begins with a typical 20-minute math lesson, followed by a 15-minute discussion of the previous day’s reading. For the rest of the 55-minute period, he reads a new chapter aloud. As he reads, Bezaire often pauses to dig deeper into the story’s math. Sometimes, the concepts align directly with the day’s pre-algebra lesson. For example, on the day when they learn about prime numbers, the class also reads why the main character, Christopher, chose primes as his system for labeling chapters.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The literary hook for this lesson is strong, and kids are really into learning more about primes thanks to the context of the story,” said Bezaire. “The lessons don't always line up this nicely, but so much of what Christopher writes about regarding mathematics is about flexibility with numbers that it's a really nice match.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-50801\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire1.jpg 200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire1-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire1-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire1-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire1-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire1-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">After class students complete written reflections about the book, with different types of questions serving multiple pedagogical goals.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mathematical questions, which often relate to puzzling out the novel’s two mysteries, allow students to practice problem-solving strategies in a context with more buy-in than the usual practice worksheets. They also encourage deeper thinking about the reasoning behind a math strategy. For example, after students test Christopher’s method for mental math with large multiplication, they are asked how easy or hard it was and when it might be most useful.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Questions related to plot and language, Bezaire said, help his less confident math students. “Students who more easily self-identify as ‘English types’ immediately get a little more comfortable in math class if they experience those types of (literary) questions regularly.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Others questions invite students to connect personally with the text. For instance, one question asks students to share the meaning of their name. Another asks them to consider how it might affect their interactions if they could not read facial expressions, like Christopher, who has autism. These questions allow Bezaire to learn about his students in ways that equations cannot. They also improve students’ patience and understanding with each other, he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/joelbezaire/status/950720362031042560\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Context and prior knowledge are critical components in fostering comprehension, regardless of the topic,” according to Faith Wallace, co-author of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.abc-clio.com/LibrariesUnlimited/product.aspx?pc=A2453P\">Teaching Math Through Reading\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/50593/10-books-to-spark-a-love-of-math-in-kids-of-all-ages\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reading literature\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is one of several ways to build that context and background knowledge. “When math is integral to the story students can learn the concepts in a natural way, become inquisitive, engage in thoughtful conversation, and more,” said Wallace.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The combination of mathematical, literary and personal reflection, along with students’ genuine interest in the story, leads to higher student engagement, Bezaire said. Year after year, his students who previously kept quiet raised their hands during discussions of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Curious Incident\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “Very often, this continues into the rest of the year after our novel study is done,” he said. “Often when middle school students get momentum in a certain class, they are hardy enough to allow it to continue even when the unit of study changes.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Calculus Book Club\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two years ago, when a schedule change created extra periods in Sam Shah’s multivariable calculus course, he instituted a class book club. The students started with the satirical science fiction novel \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/433567.Flatland?from_search=true\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Flatland\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">by Edwin Abbott and later read several nonfiction texts about mathematicians and mathematical ideas. Book club meetings took place during a block of 30 to 40 minutes a few times per month, with a rotating pair of students leading each discussion.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the first year, Shah said, his biggest challenge was deciding how much to chime into the discussions. It’s as important to create a relaxed atmosphere for the meetings as it is to keep students focused on the text, he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-50799 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Sam-Shah3-e1521228844641.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"377\">During the second year of book club, he made an effort to intervene less often. “When I reflected upon what my goal was ... it wasn't to teach kids how to do close readings and feel like drudgery. The readings were picked to inspire kids to think, to have strong feelings about, to be curious about something mathematical that showed up, to see and think about math differently.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s what the readings did.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“What I appreciated most is how humanizing our conversations were of mathematics — in terms of who was doing it — and how much curiosity students brought to the mathematical ideas they were exposed to.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One student, for example, used \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6017518-the-calculus-of-friendship?ac=1&from_search=true\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Calculus of Friendship\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">by Steven Strogatz as the model for \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">her final course project\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, in which she explored her identity and mathematical experiences using calculus concepts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although another schedule change this year forced Shah to drop book club from calculus, he has continued the club outside class with interested students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If you have the time, it's a magical way to get kids to see mathematics through a number of different lenses,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50800\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Discussion-Questions.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"772\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Discussion-Questions.png 772w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Discussion-Questions-160x87.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Discussion-Questions-768x420.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Discussion-Questions-240x131.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Discussion-Questions-375x205.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Discussion-Questions-520x284.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 772px) 100vw, 772px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shah created a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/11SBRGwo8bj1uPYKeezNia8FOST1MZbBRK8dtp3ONwFU/edit?usp=sharing\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">list of titles\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that would work well in a math book club, and \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bezaire’s curriculum for \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">is \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://prealgebraone.wordpress.com/novel-studies/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">available on his website\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. MindShift asked the two teachers to share their advice for educators who want to try incorporating literature into their own math classrooms.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tips for \u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003ci>Curious Incident\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lay the groundwork for the unit by communicating with parents, other teachers, administrators, students before diving in. There may be resistance: the book has been \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbooks/books/curiousincident.asp\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">removed from some schools\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> because of profanity.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stock up on throat lozenges or tea with honey. “I speak out loud in front of classes for a living, and it's still a stretch for me to read the book out loud four times per day,” Bezaire said.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pre-read each day's reading passage to find teachable moments: clues, red herrings and math worth expanding on. Make notes in your copy of the novel to make things easier the second year.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tips for math book club\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bring snacks and drinks. Make the class feel like it is embarking upon something special and different.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Don't grade anything. Let it be fun and non-stressful.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Don't talk too much.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Have all kids come with two to four discussion points to share at the start of each book club. This allows everyone to know what others found interesting and see if there were any topics that the discussion leaders should definitely address.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Plan and lead the first book club to set an example of the structure and style.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Integrating stories with math class in middle and high school can help students see the relevance and excitement of problem-solving. 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","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"50640 https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=50640","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2018/03/18/how-reading-novels-in-math-class-can-strengthen-student-engagement/","disqusTitle":"How Reading Novels in Math Class Can Strengthen Student Engagement","path":"/mindshift/50640/how-reading-novels-in-math-class-can-strengthen-student-engagement","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every January, Nashville teacher \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/joelbezaire\">Joel\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/joelbezaire\">Bezaire\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> reads \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/09/09/books-teachers-share-jose-luis-vilson-and-the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">aloud to his students. Sounds pretty standard, right? It would be — for an English class. But Bezaire teaches math. The novel is part of a unit on number sense.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While it’s easy to envision using math picture books in elementary school classrooms, literature for older grades poses a bigger challenge. Can reading fit into the curriculum as the books get longer and the math gets more complex? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bezaire thinks it can, and so does another teacher, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://samjshahresume.weebly.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sam Shah\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, of Brooklyn. The two occupy opposite ends of the secondary math spectrum — seventh-grade pre-algebra and 12th-grade calculus, respectively — and both have found ways to strengthen student engagement through reading.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50798\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 656px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-50798\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire2.png 656w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire2-160x161.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire2-240x242.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire2-375x378.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire2-520x525.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire2-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire2-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire2-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire2-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire2-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire2-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joel Bezaire and class read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Joel Bezaire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Novel study in pre-algebra\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During Bezaire’s \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Curious Incident \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">unit, each period begins with a typical 20-minute math lesson, followed by a 15-minute discussion of the previous day’s reading. For the rest of the 55-minute period, he reads a new chapter aloud. As he reads, Bezaire often pauses to dig deeper into the story’s math. Sometimes, the concepts align directly with the day’s pre-algebra lesson. For example, on the day when they learn about prime numbers, the class also reads why the main character, Christopher, chose primes as his system for labeling chapters.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The literary hook for this lesson is strong, and kids are really into learning more about primes thanks to the context of the story,” said Bezaire. “The lessons don't always line up this nicely, but so much of what Christopher writes about regarding mathematics is about flexibility with numbers that it's a really nice match.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-50801\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire1.jpg 200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire1-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire1-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire1-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire1-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire1-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Joel-Bezaire1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">After class students complete written reflections about the book, with different types of questions serving multiple pedagogical goals.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mathematical questions, which often relate to puzzling out the novel’s two mysteries, allow students to practice problem-solving strategies in a context with more buy-in than the usual practice worksheets. They also encourage deeper thinking about the reasoning behind a math strategy. For example, after students test Christopher’s method for mental math with large multiplication, they are asked how easy or hard it was and when it might be most useful.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Questions related to plot and language, Bezaire said, help his less confident math students. “Students who more easily self-identify as ‘English types’ immediately get a little more comfortable in math class if they experience those types of (literary) questions regularly.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Others questions invite students to connect personally with the text. For instance, one question asks students to share the meaning of their name. Another asks them to consider how it might affect their interactions if they could not read facial expressions, like Christopher, who has autism. These questions allow Bezaire to learn about his students in ways that equations cannot. They also improve students’ patience and understanding with each other, he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"950720362031042560"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Context and prior knowledge are critical components in fostering comprehension, regardless of the topic,” according to Faith Wallace, co-author of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.abc-clio.com/LibrariesUnlimited/product.aspx?pc=A2453P\">Teaching Math Through Reading\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/50593/10-books-to-spark-a-love-of-math-in-kids-of-all-ages\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reading literature\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is one of several ways to build that context and background knowledge. “When math is integral to the story students can learn the concepts in a natural way, become inquisitive, engage in thoughtful conversation, and more,” said Wallace.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The combination of mathematical, literary and personal reflection, along with students’ genuine interest in the story, leads to higher student engagement, Bezaire said. Year after year, his students who previously kept quiet raised their hands during discussions of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Curious Incident\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “Very often, this continues into the rest of the year after our novel study is done,” he said. “Often when middle school students get momentum in a certain class, they are hardy enough to allow it to continue even when the unit of study changes.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Calculus Book Club\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two years ago, when a schedule change created extra periods in Sam Shah’s multivariable calculus course, he instituted a class book club. The students started with the satirical science fiction novel \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/433567.Flatland?from_search=true\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Flatland\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">by Edwin Abbott and later read several nonfiction texts about mathematicians and mathematical ideas. Book club meetings took place during a block of 30 to 40 minutes a few times per month, with a rotating pair of students leading each discussion.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the first year, Shah said, his biggest challenge was deciding how much to chime into the discussions. It’s as important to create a relaxed atmosphere for the meetings as it is to keep students focused on the text, he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-50799 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Sam-Shah3-e1521228844641.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"377\">During the second year of book club, he made an effort to intervene less often. “When I reflected upon what my goal was ... it wasn't to teach kids how to do close readings and feel like drudgery. The readings were picked to inspire kids to think, to have strong feelings about, to be curious about something mathematical that showed up, to see and think about math differently.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s what the readings did.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“What I appreciated most is how humanizing our conversations were of mathematics — in terms of who was doing it — and how much curiosity students brought to the mathematical ideas they were exposed to.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One student, for example, used \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6017518-the-calculus-of-friendship?ac=1&from_search=true\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Calculus of Friendship\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">by Steven Strogatz as the model for \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">her final course project\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, in which she explored her identity and mathematical experiences using calculus concepts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although another schedule change this year forced Shah to drop book club from calculus, he has continued the club outside class with interested students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If you have the time, it's a magical way to get kids to see mathematics through a number of different lenses,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50800\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Discussion-Questions.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"772\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Discussion-Questions.png 772w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Discussion-Questions-160x87.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Discussion-Questions-768x420.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Discussion-Questions-240x131.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Discussion-Questions-375x205.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/03/Discussion-Questions-520x284.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 772px) 100vw, 772px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shah created a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/11SBRGwo8bj1uPYKeezNia8FOST1MZbBRK8dtp3ONwFU/edit?usp=sharing\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">list of titles\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that would work well in a math book club, and \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bezaire’s curriculum for \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">is \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://prealgebraone.wordpress.com/novel-studies/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">available on his website\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. MindShift asked the two teachers to share their advice for educators who want to try incorporating literature into their own math classrooms.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tips for \u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003ci>Curious Incident\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lay the groundwork for the unit by communicating with parents, other teachers, administrators, students before diving in. There may be resistance: the book has been \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbooks/books/curiousincident.asp\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">removed from some schools\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> because of profanity.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stock up on throat lozenges or tea with honey. “I speak out loud in front of classes for a living, and it's still a stretch for me to read the book out loud four times per day,” Bezaire said.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pre-read each day's reading passage to find teachable moments: clues, red herrings and math worth expanding on. Make notes in your copy of the novel to make things easier the second year.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tips for math book club\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bring snacks and drinks. Make the class feel like it is embarking upon something special and different.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Don't grade anything. Let it be fun and non-stressful.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Don't talk too much.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Have all kids come with two to four discussion points to share at the start of each book club. This allows everyone to know what others found interesting and see if there were any topics that the discussion leaders should definitely address.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Plan and lead the first book club to set an example of the structure and style.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/50640/how-reading-novels-in-math-class-can-strengthen-student-engagement","authors":["11487"],"categories":["mindshift_193"],"tags":["mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040","mindshift_21088","mindshift_20564","mindshift_392"],"featImg":"mindshift_50785","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_45834":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_45834","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"45834","score":null,"sort":[1469691845000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-robots-in-english-class-can-spark-empathy-and-improve-writing","title":"How Robots in English Class Can Spark Empathy and Improve Writing","publishDate":1469691845,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>Mention robots to many English teachers and they’ll immediately point down the hall to the science classroom or to the makerspace, if they have one. At many schools, if there’s a robot at all, it’s located in a science or math classroom or is being built by an after-school robotics club. It’s not usually a fixture in English classrooms. But as teachers continue to work at finding new entry points to old material for their students, \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/16/sphero-teaches-kids-to-code\" target=\"_blank\">robots are proving to be a great interdisciplinary tool\u003c/a> that builds collaboration and literacy skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For someone like me who teaches literature by lots of dead white guys, teaching programming adds relevance to my class,” said Jessica Herring, a high school English teacher at Benton High School in Arkansas. Herring first experimented using \u003ca href=\"http://www.sphero.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Sphero\u003c/a>, essentially a programmable ball, when her American literature class was studying the writing of early settlers. Herring pushed the desks back and drew a maze on the floor with tape representing the journey from Europe to the New World. Her students used class iPads and an introductory manually guided app to steer their Spheros through the maze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herring, like many English teachers, was skeptical about how the Sphero robot could be a useful teaching tool in her classroom. She thought that type of technology would distract students from the core skills of reading, writing and analyzing literature. But she decided to try it after hearing about the success of another English teacher across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_45836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-45836 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-1440x1440.jpg\" alt=\"Students experiment with the Spheros, learning how to manipulate them through a maze representing the journey from Europe to the New World.\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students experiment with the Spheros, learning how to manipulate them through a maze representing the journey from Europe to the New World. \u003ccite>(Jessica Herring)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The conversation we had afterwards about those explorers coming to the New World was really amazing,” Herring said during a presentation on her experiences at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference. Because students had struggled to keep their Spheros in the maze, they understood in a personal way how frustrating it must have been for early settlers who got lost, backtracked and eventually made it to a new land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They went from piloting these robots to talking about these bigger ideas and having this empathy for people in history,” Herring said. Students commented that they could understand why the Puritans had to believe in a higher power while making the journey, and expressed respect for their tenacity. Herring began to see how the Spheros could give students a more visceral point of connection to themes in the books they were studying, and began scheming more ways to connect programming to reflection and writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/AxsZouCwnPc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PROGRAMMING MIRRORS WRITING PROCESS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her students had that initial experience exploring with the Spheros, Herring decided to increase the complexity. For the next Spheros project, students chose a character from Mark Twain’s classic novel \u003cem>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c/em> and programmed their Spheros to represent the personality, emotions and journey of that character. To do this, students had to go back to the text and use close-reading strategies to find textual evidence that would back up their interpretation of the setting, motivations and feelings of the character. Then they had to decide how the Spheros, a simple round ball that can light up, could represent those qualities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, one group chose “drunk Pap” as their character. They programmed their Sphero to zigzag across the river (marked out on the floor with tape), stop at the house, and then shake and turn red. As students went through the process they soon realized their graphic organizers of ideas were more like hypotheses; they had to adjust and add detail as they tried things in the programming language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_45838\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45838\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/Sphero-17-of-60-e1469588894594-400x283.jpg\" alt=\"Students filled in graphic organizers to justify their programming choices with textual evidence.\" width=\"400\" height=\"283\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students filled in graphic organizers to justify their programming choices with textual evidence. \u003ccite>(Jessica Herring)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The programming process models the writing process,” Herring said. Many of her students struggle to see writing as an iterative process -- they prefer to dash something off and never look at it again. But as they collaboratively planned their storylines, tried programming different representations into the Spheros and modified their approaches, they began to see the importance of revision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they could make that connection between writing and programming, it really changed their approach to writing,” Herring said. “It made them more open to that process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her honors class, Herring used the Spheros for a project on \u003cem>Beowulf\u003c/em>. Together the class studied the three different battles between Beowulf and Grendel. Then students split into groups and chose different battles to represent. They had to code their Spheros to not only represent the actions of their character in the battle, but also collaborate with the group representing their opponent so that the interactions in the battle matched up. “The alignment of the two programs was really challenging and they liked it,” Herring said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herring tried the Spheros activities with both her honors British literature class and an on-level class. The two groups of students reacted differently to the assignment. The honors students were more reluctant to jump into the project, seeing it as “playing around,” not serious work. They wanted to continue doing what they were used to -- analyzing text and writing papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we think about higher-level kids, we think they’re really reflective and understand how they’re learning,” Herring said. “But sometimes they’re so overwhelmed by all these highly rigorous courses that demand a lot of them that they don’t have time to think.” As their teacher, she could see that they were digging into the text, closely reading, listening to one another, articulating their opinions and collaborating, but she had to actively point out these aspects to students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, the on-level group was more engaged than Herring had ever seen them. “On-level kids were just so excited that someone let them get out of a desk,” Herring said. “They really saw it as impacting their understanding of the text. They saw this deep connection and change in their learning experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these students had struggled to care about English class, but when Herring let them show their thoughts in a different way and discuss before writing, their ideas flowed on paper more easily. And Herring is intentional about allowing students to revise work for a new grade to make sure her grading policies for writing mirror the kind of growth mindset she seeded with the Spheros programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herring admits that she likes to keep her assignments fairly open, and that lack of structure can fluster students who have been told exactly how to complete assignments in the past. But Herring tells them she’s giving them freedom because she believes in their ability to impress her, that they can come up with far more creative approaches if she doesn’t give them a framework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45839\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-1440x771.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7930\" width=\"640\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-1440x771.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-400x214.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-800x428.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-768x411.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-1180x632.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-960x514.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so incredible to see how that freed them up to see that ‘my brain has value. I’m a creative person,’ \" Herring said. She also found that when students got out of their desks and worked together, different students tended to shine. She saw leadership and innovative ideas out of students who previously seemed checked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it changed their perspective of themselves as learners,” Herring said. “They felt more confident. They were more willing to take risks.” Some of the students in her on-level class are now planning to take honors classes next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the year Herring experimented with different programming apps of various complexity to scaffold her students in their programming skills, as well as their literary analysis. She started them out on the manual app, which isn’t really programming, but gave students a chance to play with the technology and get over its novelty. For the next project she asked students to use \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=orbotix.draw&hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Sphero Drive N Draw\u003c/a>, an app that takes a step toward block-based programming by letting students draw the path the Sphero will follow. Most of Herrings projects used the free app \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sphero.sprk&hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">SPRK Lightning Lab\u003c/a>, a block-based coding app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For students who want more control over the code, \u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/sphero-macrolab/\" target=\"_blank\">Sphero Macrolab\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orbotix.orbbasic&hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">orbBasic for Sphero\u003c/a> require the user to actually write code. Herring didn’t use these two apps because she worried if the coding got too complicated and challenging, it would distract from the literature focus of the project. Herring herself had almost no experience with coding when she launched this project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really didn’t go in with me as an expert,” she said. “I think that might have ruined it.” When she was learning alongside her students it gave them a chance to become the experts, to show her things they had figured out, and to reinforce the playful nature of trying something, improving on the design and working toward an ultimate product that made them all proud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LEARNING FROM OTHER EDUCATORS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Herring introduced the Spheros experiment it was her first year teaching high school after several years at the local middle school. She first learned about \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/robotic-adventures-in-english/id1053472110?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\">Spheros in the classroom\u003c/a> from another educator teaching in New York state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veteran teacher Richard Perry was frustrated that his upper-level AP English students weren’t connecting with the heart of John Steinbeck’s novel \u003cem>The Grapes of Wrath\u003c/em>. They weren’t having trouble analyzing text, but he could see that they didn’t seem to have much empathy for the experiences of the Joad family. He hypothesized that there was too much distance between students’ privileged socioeconomic backgrounds and the experience of the Joad family; instead of empathy for the characters, students felt annoyed that so many bad things happened to them throughout the book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry decided to build a mountain and assign student groups a Sphero that represented their family traveling over the mountain. “The whole idea was to make sure the kids understood you can be a good, hard-working person and sometimes the situation is still going to be aligned against you,” Perry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/a0N7-lYW8Us?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry gave student groups a few class periods to get familiar with the Spheros, then he brought out the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0N7-lYW8Us\" target=\"_blank\">mountain he had made\u003c/a> out of cardboard and AstroTurf. Students got a few class periods to work on programming their Sphero to get over the mountain and were expected to document their successes and failures. Finally, each group got five minutes to try to navigate their “Joad family” over the mountain. Perry had built in traps and at times the Sphero would cut out, as the Joad family car had done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first year none of the families succeeded,” Perry said. But students had gained a lot of empathy for the Joad family, which showed up in their writing. The second year, Perry used the same activity, which was also an inclusion class. Perry said one of the students in that class was blind, and although incredibly bright, struggled with being seen as “disabled” by peers. He explored the mountain by touch and ended up identifying some of the tricks for his group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He became the hero for the entire unit,” Perry said. His group was the only one to successfully cross the mountain. Students saw the student’s blindness as an asset in this situation; he had the tools to understand the world around him in different and necessary ways. “That had an impact on me, too,” Perry said. “He beat me at this task because he had this ability that I don’t have, and it impressed the hell of me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry took the Spheros activity to the next level when his 10th-grade students were reading \u003cem>Lord of the Flies\u003c/em>. In discussions, it was clear that students were having a hard time connecting with the themes of the book. They didn’t believe humans would act the way the boys on the island did, and had no perception of what survival would have been like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry \u003ca href=\"https://padlet-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/prod/118719535/459c2c745bb168359e3ea3300609925f37e1ddc7/f4effeb28c5c19fcab85b1b92e70c178.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">designed three challenges\u003c/a> to represent surviving on the island: a shelter challenge, fire challenge and a pig hunt. He then assigned each student a character and doled out \u003ca href=\"https://padlet-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/prod/118719535/dbb1a3bb576a98e376edd51c4d50cc83154da6db/68a45f57179878ff1048b382e19a21ff.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">different abilities and resources\u003c/a> depending on the character’s personality. For example, the Sphero representing Piggy was programmed to go half as fast as the fastest boy’s Sphero, but because he is a resourceful, smart character he had more tools to complete the challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/KRYv0DW4rZU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We gave them the chance to really step into the shoes of those kids,” Perry said. And when it came to the pig hunt, a culminating scene in the book, the students “went all \u003cem>Lord of the Flies\u003c/em> on each other,” ganging up on the weakest among them in order to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had that moment when the light came on,” Perry said. Students had unwittingly acted exactly as the characters did in the book. Suddenly all the theoretical arguments they made before the activity fell flat. To improve the project next year, Perry plans to have students set the parameters for the different characters based on textual analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Herring and Perry are excited at how such a simple robot like the Sphero could activate student thinking, discussion, excitement and empathy in their classrooms. They’re thinking about how they might have their classes collaborate and learn from one another, especially because Herring’s students are more ethnically and socioeconomically diverse than Perry’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like what we’re doing is really transformative and can be applied to other classes that are not literacy,” Herring said. She sees history as a natural application, but also realizes her students were using geometry and physics, among other disciplines, when programming their Spheros. The interdisciplinary nature of the project is part of its strength in her mind. She hopes more teachers will be open-minded about letting students have a kinesthetic experience that gets them out of their desks to grow into more confident learners.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"English teachers are finding hands-on interdisciplinary approaches for teaching literature that get kids empathizing with characters and excited to show off their best work.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1469692377,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://www.youtube.com/embed/AxsZouCwnPc","https://www.youtube.com/embed/a0N7-lYW8Us","https://www.youtube.com/embed/KRYv0DW4rZU"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":40,"wordCount":2389},"headData":{"title":"How Robots in English Class Can Spark Empathy and Improve Writing | KQED","description":"English teachers are finding hands-on interdisciplinary approaches for teaching literature that get kids empathizing with characters and excited to show off their best work.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"45834 http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=45834","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/07/28/how-robots-in-english-class-can-spark-empathy-and-improve-writing/","disqusTitle":"How Robots in English Class Can Spark Empathy and Improve Writing","path":"/mindshift/45834/how-robots-in-english-class-can-spark-empathy-and-improve-writing","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Mention robots to many English teachers and they’ll immediately point down the hall to the science classroom or to the makerspace, if they have one. At many schools, if there’s a robot at all, it’s located in a science or math classroom or is being built by an after-school robotics club. It’s not usually a fixture in English classrooms. But as teachers continue to work at finding new entry points to old material for their students, \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/16/sphero-teaches-kids-to-code\" target=\"_blank\">robots are proving to be a great interdisciplinary tool\u003c/a> that builds collaboration and literacy skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For someone like me who teaches literature by lots of dead white guys, teaching programming adds relevance to my class,” said Jessica Herring, a high school English teacher at Benton High School in Arkansas. Herring first experimented using \u003ca href=\"http://www.sphero.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Sphero\u003c/a>, essentially a programmable ball, when her American literature class was studying the writing of early settlers. Herring pushed the desks back and drew a maze on the floor with tape representing the journey from Europe to the New World. Her students used class iPads and an introductory manually guided app to steer their Spheros through the maze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herring, like many English teachers, was skeptical about how the Sphero robot could be a useful teaching tool in her classroom. She thought that type of technology would distract students from the core skills of reading, writing and analyzing literature. But she decided to try it after hearing about the success of another English teacher across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_45836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-45836 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-1440x1440.jpg\" alt=\"Students experiment with the Spheros, learning how to manipulate them through a maze representing the journey from Europe to the New World.\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students experiment with the Spheros, learning how to manipulate them through a maze representing the journey from Europe to the New World. \u003ccite>(Jessica Herring)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The conversation we had afterwards about those explorers coming to the New World was really amazing,” Herring said during a presentation on her experiences at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference. Because students had struggled to keep their Spheros in the maze, they understood in a personal way how frustrating it must have been for early settlers who got lost, backtracked and eventually made it to a new land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They went from piloting these robots to talking about these bigger ideas and having this empathy for people in history,” Herring said. Students commented that they could understand why the Puritans had to believe in a higher power while making the journey, and expressed respect for their tenacity. Herring began to see how the Spheros could give students a more visceral point of connection to themes in the books they were studying, and began scheming more ways to connect programming to reflection and writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/AxsZouCwnPc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PROGRAMMING MIRRORS WRITING PROCESS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her students had that initial experience exploring with the Spheros, Herring decided to increase the complexity. For the next Spheros project, students chose a character from Mark Twain’s classic novel \u003cem>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c/em> and programmed their Spheros to represent the personality, emotions and journey of that character. To do this, students had to go back to the text and use close-reading strategies to find textual evidence that would back up their interpretation of the setting, motivations and feelings of the character. Then they had to decide how the Spheros, a simple round ball that can light up, could represent those qualities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, one group chose “drunk Pap” as their character. They programmed their Sphero to zigzag across the river (marked out on the floor with tape), stop at the house, and then shake and turn red. As students went through the process they soon realized their graphic organizers of ideas were more like hypotheses; they had to adjust and add detail as they tried things in the programming language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_45838\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45838\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/Sphero-17-of-60-e1469588894594-400x283.jpg\" alt=\"Students filled in graphic organizers to justify their programming choices with textual evidence.\" width=\"400\" height=\"283\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students filled in graphic organizers to justify their programming choices with textual evidence. \u003ccite>(Jessica Herring)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The programming process models the writing process,” Herring said. Many of her students struggle to see writing as an iterative process -- they prefer to dash something off and never look at it again. But as they collaboratively planned their storylines, tried programming different representations into the Spheros and modified their approaches, they began to see the importance of revision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they could make that connection between writing and programming, it really changed their approach to writing,” Herring said. “It made them more open to that process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her honors class, Herring used the Spheros for a project on \u003cem>Beowulf\u003c/em>. Together the class studied the three different battles between Beowulf and Grendel. Then students split into groups and chose different battles to represent. They had to code their Spheros to not only represent the actions of their character in the battle, but also collaborate with the group representing their opponent so that the interactions in the battle matched up. “The alignment of the two programs was really challenging and they liked it,” Herring said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herring tried the Spheros activities with both her honors British literature class and an on-level class. The two groups of students reacted differently to the assignment. The honors students were more reluctant to jump into the project, seeing it as “playing around,” not serious work. They wanted to continue doing what they were used to -- analyzing text and writing papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we think about higher-level kids, we think they’re really reflective and understand how they’re learning,” Herring said. “But sometimes they’re so overwhelmed by all these highly rigorous courses that demand a lot of them that they don’t have time to think.” As their teacher, she could see that they were digging into the text, closely reading, listening to one another, articulating their opinions and collaborating, but she had to actively point out these aspects to students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, the on-level group was more engaged than Herring had ever seen them. “On-level kids were just so excited that someone let them get out of a desk,” Herring said. “They really saw it as impacting their understanding of the text. They saw this deep connection and change in their learning experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these students had struggled to care about English class, but when Herring let them show their thoughts in a different way and discuss before writing, their ideas flowed on paper more easily. And Herring is intentional about allowing students to revise work for a new grade to make sure her grading policies for writing mirror the kind of growth mindset she seeded with the Spheros programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herring admits that she likes to keep her assignments fairly open, and that lack of structure can fluster students who have been told exactly how to complete assignments in the past. But Herring tells them she’s giving them freedom because she believes in their ability to impress her, that they can come up with far more creative approaches if she doesn’t give them a framework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45839\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-1440x771.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7930\" width=\"640\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-1440x771.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-400x214.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-800x428.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-768x411.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-1180x632.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-960x514.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so incredible to see how that freed them up to see that ‘my brain has value. I’m a creative person,’ \" Herring said. She also found that when students got out of their desks and worked together, different students tended to shine. She saw leadership and innovative ideas out of students who previously seemed checked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it changed their perspective of themselves as learners,” Herring said. “They felt more confident. They were more willing to take risks.” Some of the students in her on-level class are now planning to take honors classes next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the year Herring experimented with different programming apps of various complexity to scaffold her students in their programming skills, as well as their literary analysis. She started them out on the manual app, which isn’t really programming, but gave students a chance to play with the technology and get over its novelty. For the next project she asked students to use \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=orbotix.draw&hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Sphero Drive N Draw\u003c/a>, an app that takes a step toward block-based programming by letting students draw the path the Sphero will follow. Most of Herrings projects used the free app \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sphero.sprk&hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">SPRK Lightning Lab\u003c/a>, a block-based coding app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For students who want more control over the code, \u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/sphero-macrolab/\" target=\"_blank\">Sphero Macrolab\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orbotix.orbbasic&hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">orbBasic for Sphero\u003c/a> require the user to actually write code. Herring didn’t use these two apps because she worried if the coding got too complicated and challenging, it would distract from the literature focus of the project. Herring herself had almost no experience with coding when she launched this project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really didn’t go in with me as an expert,” she said. “I think that might have ruined it.” When she was learning alongside her students it gave them a chance to become the experts, to show her things they had figured out, and to reinforce the playful nature of trying something, improving on the design and working toward an ultimate product that made them all proud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LEARNING FROM OTHER EDUCATORS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Herring introduced the Spheros experiment it was her first year teaching high school after several years at the local middle school. She first learned about \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/robotic-adventures-in-english/id1053472110?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\">Spheros in the classroom\u003c/a> from another educator teaching in New York state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veteran teacher Richard Perry was frustrated that his upper-level AP English students weren’t connecting with the heart of John Steinbeck’s novel \u003cem>The Grapes of Wrath\u003c/em>. They weren’t having trouble analyzing text, but he could see that they didn’t seem to have much empathy for the experiences of the Joad family. He hypothesized that there was too much distance between students’ privileged socioeconomic backgrounds and the experience of the Joad family; instead of empathy for the characters, students felt annoyed that so many bad things happened to them throughout the book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry decided to build a mountain and assign student groups a Sphero that represented their family traveling over the mountain. “The whole idea was to make sure the kids understood you can be a good, hard-working person and sometimes the situation is still going to be aligned against you,” Perry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/a0N7-lYW8Us?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry gave student groups a few class periods to get familiar with the Spheros, then he brought out the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0N7-lYW8Us\" target=\"_blank\">mountain he had made\u003c/a> out of cardboard and AstroTurf. Students got a few class periods to work on programming their Sphero to get over the mountain and were expected to document their successes and failures. Finally, each group got five minutes to try to navigate their “Joad family” over the mountain. Perry had built in traps and at times the Sphero would cut out, as the Joad family car had done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first year none of the families succeeded,” Perry said. But students had gained a lot of empathy for the Joad family, which showed up in their writing. The second year, Perry used the same activity, which was also an inclusion class. Perry said one of the students in that class was blind, and although incredibly bright, struggled with being seen as “disabled” by peers. He explored the mountain by touch and ended up identifying some of the tricks for his group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He became the hero for the entire unit,” Perry said. His group was the only one to successfully cross the mountain. Students saw the student’s blindness as an asset in this situation; he had the tools to understand the world around him in different and necessary ways. “That had an impact on me, too,” Perry said. “He beat me at this task because he had this ability that I don’t have, and it impressed the hell of me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry took the Spheros activity to the next level when his 10th-grade students were reading \u003cem>Lord of the Flies\u003c/em>. In discussions, it was clear that students were having a hard time connecting with the themes of the book. They didn’t believe humans would act the way the boys on the island did, and had no perception of what survival would have been like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry \u003ca href=\"https://padlet-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/prod/118719535/459c2c745bb168359e3ea3300609925f37e1ddc7/f4effeb28c5c19fcab85b1b92e70c178.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">designed three challenges\u003c/a> to represent surviving on the island: a shelter challenge, fire challenge and a pig hunt. He then assigned each student a character and doled out \u003ca href=\"https://padlet-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/prod/118719535/dbb1a3bb576a98e376edd51c4d50cc83154da6db/68a45f57179878ff1048b382e19a21ff.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">different abilities and resources\u003c/a> depending on the character’s personality. For example, the Sphero representing Piggy was programmed to go half as fast as the fastest boy’s Sphero, but because he is a resourceful, smart character he had more tools to complete the challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/KRYv0DW4rZU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We gave them the chance to really step into the shoes of those kids,” Perry said. And when it came to the pig hunt, a culminating scene in the book, the students “went all \u003cem>Lord of the Flies\u003c/em> on each other,” ganging up on the weakest among them in order to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had that moment when the light came on,” Perry said. Students had unwittingly acted exactly as the characters did in the book. Suddenly all the theoretical arguments they made before the activity fell flat. To improve the project next year, Perry plans to have students set the parameters for the different characters based on textual analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Herring and Perry are excited at how such a simple robot like the Sphero could activate student thinking, discussion, excitement and empathy in their classrooms. They’re thinking about how they might have their classes collaborate and learn from one another, especially because Herring’s students are more ethnically and socioeconomically diverse than Perry’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like what we’re doing is really transformative and can be applied to other classes that are not literacy,” Herring said. She sees history as a natural application, but also realizes her students were using geometry and physics, among other disciplines, when programming their Spheros. The interdisciplinary nature of the project is part of its strength in her mind. She hopes more teachers will be open-minded about letting students have a kinesthetic experience that gets them out of their desks to grow into more confident learners.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/45834/how-robots-in-english-class-can-spark-empathy-and-improve-writing","authors":["234"],"categories":["mindshift_195","mindshift_193"],"tags":["mindshift_20646","mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040","mindshift_20797","mindshift_546","mindshift_20564","mindshift_434","mindshift_47"],"featImg":"mindshift_45835","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_44038":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_44038","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"44038","score":null,"sort":[1456536675000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"an-eleven-year-olds-quest-to-spotlight-black-girls-in-literature","title":"An Eleven-Year-Old's Quest To Spotlight Black Girls In Literature","publishDate":1456536675,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>Marley Dias is like a lot of 11-year-olds: She loves getting lost in a book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the books she was reading at school were starting to get on her nerves. She enjoyed \u003cem>Where The Red Fern Grows\u003c/em> and the \u003cem>Shiloh\u003c/em> series, but those classics, found in so many elementary school classrooms, were all about white boys or dogs ... or white boys and their dogs, Marley says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black girls, like Marley, were almost never the main character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What she was noticing is actually a much bigger issue: Fewer than 10 percent of children's books released in 2015 had a black person as the main character, according to a yearly analysis by the \u003ca href=\"https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/books/pcstats.asp\">Cooperative Children's Book Center\u003c/a> at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. And while the number of children's books about minorities has increased in the last 20 years, many classroom libraries have older books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Marley decided to do something about it. She set a goal of collecting 1,000 books about black girls by the beginning of February, and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/1000blackgirlbooks?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Ehashtag\">#1000blackgirlbooks\u003c/a> was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has far exceeded her goal, with almost 4,000 books and counting. Now, she wants to set up a black girl book club and pressure school districts to change what books are assigned to students. Morning Edition's David Greene spoke with Marley about her campaign and how she's handled her success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thing NPR Ed wanted to know? Her take on a subject she now knows well: books about black girls. Here are her top five picks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"float: LEFT;margin: 0 15px 5px 0\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.jacquelinewoodson.com/category/books-ive-written/middle-grade-titles/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44046\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44046\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/02/brown-girl-dreaming.jpg\" alt=\"brown girl dreaming\" width=\"300\" height=\"443\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brown Girl Dreaming:\u003c/strong> by Jacqueline Woodson\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Age Level:\u003c/strong> Grades 6-8\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Genre:\u003c/strong> Autobiography\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why Marley recommends it:\u003c/strong> \"It's definitely one of my favorites, mainly because I am a very avid reader and it was one of the first books I ever had a challenge reading. I know that sounds not really good because then you couldn't understand it. But it was like the first time that I ever fully had to wait and think through something and take my time, which I think is definitely something important because you have to be patient.\"\u003cbr>\n\"It's also a poetry book and I think that poetry is cool even though I don't really write poetry that much. I do think it's cool to read it. And it's a very important book and there's a lot of themes in the book. There's a lot of ways to interpret it, but it's about the '60s and '70s and Jim Crow laws in South Carolina and New York and how a girl talks about her family and racism and how they experience it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"clear: both;margin-bottom: 30px\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"float: LEFT;margin: 0 15px 5px 0\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.ritawg.com/one-crazy-summer/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44048\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44048\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/02/one-crazy-summer.jpg\" alt=\"one crazy summer\" width=\"300\" height=\"448\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One Crazy Summer:\u003c/strong> by Rita Williams-Garcia\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Age Level:\u003c/strong> Grades 3-5\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Genre:\u003c/strong> Historical Fiction\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why Marley recommends it:\u003c/strong> \"The black girls that I know ... thought that this was one of the best books about black girls. I haven't finished reading it yet. I know it's kind of disappointing that I haven't read one of the most popular books that we've been getting. It's about three girls who go to see their mother, who they haven't seen ever since they were babies babies. So, they go to visit the summer with her and they have a whole giant adventure.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"clear: both;margin-bottom: 30px\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"float: LEFT;margin: 0 15px 5px 0\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sherri-winston/president-of-the-whole-fifth-grade/9780316114332/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44049\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44049\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/02/president-fifth-grade.jpg\" alt=\"president fifth grade\" width=\"300\" height=\"441\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>President of the Whole Fifth Grade:\u003c/strong> by Sherri Winston\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Age Level:\u003c/strong> Grades 3-5\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Genre:\u003c/strong> Fiction\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why Marley recommends it:\u003c/strong> \"It's about a girl named Brianna Justice who runs for fifth-grade president.\" Marley explains the main character is following in the footsteps of her role model, \"who's a cupcake baker from the same town in Michigan that she's from. So, it's about her whole journey to become president of the whole fifth grade. It's a series and there's President of the Whole Sixth Grade as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"clear: both;margin-bottom: 30px\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"float: LEFT;margin: 0 15px 5px 0\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Roll-Thunder-Hear-My-Cry/dp/0142401129\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44051\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44051\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/02/roll-of-thunder.jpg\" alt=\"roll of thunder\" width=\"300\" height=\"420\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry:\u003c/strong> by Mildred D. Taylor\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Age Level:\u003c/strong> Grades 5-8\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Genre:\u003c/strong> Historical Fiction, classical\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why Marley recommends it:\u003c/strong> \"I like this one because it's a classic book in general and it's one of the most famous black girl books ever. The main character, she's very independent. She's very strong. She's very family-oriented and she protects her family. So, that's definitely one of the main things that the book is popular for. It has a very important life lesson: to be protective of the things you have, even though you might not be 100 percent grateful for it and to always stand up for what you believe in, even if you're the only one. So, I think those are definitely good themes that could help girls — and boys — learn how to represent their voices when there's a problem.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"clear: both;margin-bottom: 30px\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"float: LEFT;margin: 0 15px 5px 0\">\u003ca href=\"http://books.simonandschuster.com/Please-Baby-Please/Spike-Lee/9781416949114\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44052\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44052\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/02/please-baby-please.jpg\" alt=\"please baby please\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/02/please-baby-please.jpg 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/02/please-baby-please-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/02/please-baby-please-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/02/please-baby-please-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/02/please-baby-please-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/02/please-baby-please-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/02/please-baby-please-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Please, Baby, Please:\u003c/strong> by Spike Lee, Tonya Lewis Lee and Kadir Nelson\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Age Level:\u003c/strong> Ages 2-5\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Genre:\u003c/strong> Comedy\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why Marley recommends it:\u003c/strong> When it comes to books for little kids, Marley has a tie: Please, Baby, Please and Please, Puppy, Please. \"They're really funny and sweet little books about a baby who is being a little trouble maker and then about a dog who's being a little trouble maker. They're funny and they're sweet and kids enjoy them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"clear: both;margin-bottom: 30px\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. 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She enjoyed \u003cem>Where The Red Fern Grows\u003c/em> and the \u003cem>Shiloh\u003c/em> series, but those classics, found in so many elementary school classrooms, were all about white boys or dogs ... or white boys and their dogs, Marley says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black girls, like Marley, were almost never the main character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What she was noticing is actually a much bigger issue: Fewer than 10 percent of children's books released in 2015 had a black person as the main character, according to a yearly analysis by the \u003ca href=\"https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/books/pcstats.asp\">Cooperative Children's Book Center\u003c/a> at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. And while the number of children's books about minorities has increased in the last 20 years, many classroom libraries have older books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Marley decided to do something about it. She set a goal of collecting 1,000 books about black girls by the beginning of February, and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/1000blackgirlbooks?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Ehashtag\">#1000blackgirlbooks\u003c/a> was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has far exceeded her goal, with almost 4,000 books and counting. Now, she wants to set up a black girl book club and pressure school districts to change what books are assigned to students. Morning Edition's David Greene spoke with Marley about her campaign and how she's handled her success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thing NPR Ed wanted to know? Her take on a subject she now knows well: books about black girls. Here are her top five picks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"float: LEFT;margin: 0 15px 5px 0\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.jacquelinewoodson.com/category/books-ive-written/middle-grade-titles/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44046\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44046\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/02/brown-girl-dreaming.jpg\" alt=\"brown girl dreaming\" width=\"300\" height=\"443\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brown Girl Dreaming:\u003c/strong> by Jacqueline Woodson\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Age Level:\u003c/strong> Grades 6-8\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Genre:\u003c/strong> Autobiography\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why Marley recommends it:\u003c/strong> \"It's definitely one of my favorites, mainly because I am a very avid reader and it was one of the first books I ever had a challenge reading. I know that sounds not really good because then you couldn't understand it. But it was like the first time that I ever fully had to wait and think through something and take my time, which I think is definitely something important because you have to be patient.\"\u003cbr>\n\"It's also a poetry book and I think that poetry is cool even though I don't really write poetry that much. I do think it's cool to read it. And it's a very important book and there's a lot of themes in the book. There's a lot of ways to interpret it, but it's about the '60s and '70s and Jim Crow laws in South Carolina and New York and how a girl talks about her family and racism and how they experience it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"clear: both;margin-bottom: 30px\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"float: LEFT;margin: 0 15px 5px 0\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.ritawg.com/one-crazy-summer/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44048\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44048\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/02/one-crazy-summer.jpg\" alt=\"one crazy summer\" width=\"300\" height=\"448\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One Crazy Summer:\u003c/strong> by Rita Williams-Garcia\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Age Level:\u003c/strong> Grades 3-5\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Genre:\u003c/strong> Historical Fiction\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why Marley recommends it:\u003c/strong> \"The black girls that I know ... thought that this was one of the best books about black girls. I haven't finished reading it yet. I know it's kind of disappointing that I haven't read one of the most popular books that we've been getting. It's about three girls who go to see their mother, who they haven't seen ever since they were babies babies. So, they go to visit the summer with her and they have a whole giant adventure.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"clear: both;margin-bottom: 30px\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"float: LEFT;margin: 0 15px 5px 0\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sherri-winston/president-of-the-whole-fifth-grade/9780316114332/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44049\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44049\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/02/president-fifth-grade.jpg\" alt=\"president fifth grade\" width=\"300\" height=\"441\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>President of the Whole Fifth Grade:\u003c/strong> by Sherri Winston\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Age Level:\u003c/strong> Grades 3-5\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Genre:\u003c/strong> Fiction\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why Marley recommends it:\u003c/strong> \"It's about a girl named Brianna Justice who runs for fifth-grade president.\" Marley explains the main character is following in the footsteps of her role model, \"who's a cupcake baker from the same town in Michigan that she's from. So, it's about her whole journey to become president of the whole fifth grade. It's a series and there's President of the Whole Sixth Grade as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"clear: both;margin-bottom: 30px\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"float: LEFT;margin: 0 15px 5px 0\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Roll-Thunder-Hear-My-Cry/dp/0142401129\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44051\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44051\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/02/roll-of-thunder.jpg\" alt=\"roll of thunder\" width=\"300\" height=\"420\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry:\u003c/strong> by Mildred D. Taylor\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Age Level:\u003c/strong> Grades 5-8\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Genre:\u003c/strong> Historical Fiction, classical\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why Marley recommends it:\u003c/strong> \"I like this one because it's a classic book in general and it's one of the most famous black girl books ever. The main character, she's very independent. She's very strong. She's very family-oriented and she protects her family. So, that's definitely one of the main things that the book is popular for. It has a very important life lesson: to be protective of the things you have, even though you might not be 100 percent grateful for it and to always stand up for what you believe in, even if you're the only one. 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