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From: Monica Edinger <monicaedinger_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:01:19 -0400
I had someone write me privately concerned about my final statement, " "My suggestion is to just not expect them to know much or anything and take it from there." And so just let me clarify that this was meant to encourage an openness to children, to get away from blaming teachers for what their charges learned or didn't learn, know or don't know. Kids know tons, but my feeling is Tony and any author coming into a wide variety of schools cannot be certain of the specifics and be prepared to provide the background they need if necessary. If I were Tony I might begin by asking, "What can you tell me about Martin Luther King Jr?", "Rosa Parks?" (Just because these are the most likely familiar names to them as a starting point.) Their answers would help me to know where to go next. That is, maybe they'd give a sense they did know something of Jim Crow and then I might ask them about that. Or if they knew little, I'd fill in the necessary information to then go on to talk more specifically about *Lunch-Box Dream*
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Monica
-- Monica Edinger 600 West 111th Street Apt 2A New York NY 10025 educating alice _at_medinger on twitter My Huffington Post Blog
Received on Sun 31 Jul 2011 11:01:19 AM CDT
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:01:19 -0400
I had someone write me privately concerned about my final statement, " "My suggestion is to just not expect them to know much or anything and take it from there." And so just let me clarify that this was meant to encourage an openness to children, to get away from blaming teachers for what their charges learned or didn't learn, know or don't know. Kids know tons, but my feeling is Tony and any author coming into a wide variety of schools cannot be certain of the specifics and be prepared to provide the background they need if necessary. If I were Tony I might begin by asking, "What can you tell me about Martin Luther King Jr?", "Rosa Parks?" (Just because these are the most likely familiar names to them as a starting point.) Their answers would help me to know where to go next. That is, maybe they'd give a sense they did know something of Jim Crow and then I might ask them about that. Or if they knew little, I'd fill in the necessary information to then go on to talk more specifically about *Lunch-Box Dream*
.
Monica
-- Monica Edinger 600 West 111th Street Apt 2A New York NY 10025 educating alice _at_medinger on twitter My Huffington Post Blog
Received on Sun 31 Jul 2011 11:01:19 AM CDT
