Poetry comes in many distinctive forms, so I can’t say I am a fan or not a fan. Poetry makes my heart smile, laugh and even cry. I believe poetry is just another form of literature that can touch people in diverse ways and at different times according to their life experience.

The homepage of Brod Bagert, author of Giant Children and many other books of poetry for kids.
Known as one of America's most popular performing children's poets, Brod Bagert travels the country, giving hundreds of poetry presentations every year.
http://www.poetry4kids.com/modules.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=viewlink&cid=1

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Chapter 4

Chapter 4,

Chapter 4 integrates many strategies in ways of boosting comprehension of literature. Chapter 4 is about assessing and encouraging the reader to achieve better comprehension and to educate teachers to anticipate their students’ needs, and generate discussions about the material. I believe it helps to teach how the cultural diversity needs to be handled in every classroom.



ELIJAH of BUXTON written by Christopher Paul CurtisElijah was the first free baby born in Buxton, Canada and the first person there who had never been owned by a slave master. Christopher Paul Curtis confronts powerful issues in his books. Racism, family, love, and hope are recurring themes in novels such as the Newbery Honor-winning The Watsons Go To Birmingham—1963, Bud, Not Buddy, for which he was awarded both the Coretta Scott King Award and Newbery Medal, and Elijah of Buxton, also a Newbery Honor winner and Coretta Scott King Award winner.

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/collection.jsp?id=49 check it out!!!!This website has Lesson plans, discussion guides, and extension activitieshttp://www.powells.com/authors/curtis.htm is an interview with Christopher Paul CurtisThe author wants to help people understand our differences by writing powerful literature that opens up discussions. In his books, Curtis has incorporated Bloom’s Taxonomy in questions he provides in the back of the book.

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chapter 2 Culturally responsive classroom was quite an eye opener. It scares me to think that I would offend one of my students, by not being sensitive to their culture and this could in turn, have that student learn less than they would if I had been more sensitive the culture. I think that it is important to be culturally responsible without going overboard. I like the idea of home visits or even a meeting with parents/caregivers before school has started so that you can mess tighter a learning environment that is inviting the first day of school.





A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children
Seale, Doris (Santee/Cree), and Beverly Slapin,
http://www.oyate.org/aboutus.html

This book is on the Oyate website. Oyate is a Native organization working to see that the Native people’s lives and histories are portrayed honestly. They are like any group of people they want their children to know their heritage. A Broken Flute and its companions to Through Indian Eyes, both are books to help Native Indians children get a better understanding of their heritage. This websites tries to dispel myths and get to the real history.