The #cyberPD book this year is Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension.
The last chunk we read was chapters 5 ("Finding Humanity in Ourselves and Others") and 6 ("Facing Crisis Together").
My response in the first week was gratitude for the opportunity to build another classroom community through the art of teaching. In the second week, books I was reading aligned with the concepts in Being the Change.
One book stands out at the connection to this last chunk:
Harbor Me
by Jacqueline Woodson
Nancy Paulsen Books (August 28, 2018)
(my review on Goodreads)
Amazing book.
So beautifully written.
So needed for this country, our classrooms, our children, all our citizens RIGHT NOW.
So powerful...the power of talk, of getting to know others ("Others").
So honest about race and privilege and ability (dis- and otherwise) and family and grief and loss and prison and immigration. It's all there, but it's not too much. Because it really is all there, all the time.
I can’t wait to get my hands on this book!!!
ReplyDeleteI echo what Michelle said. ❤️ your Goodreads review. I’m feeling the need to push back against the “this book has too much going on” narrative in middle grade book reviews—not specific to Harbor Me, but in general. There is too much going on in LIFE. Books that don’t reflect that miss the mark, in my opinion.
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