The Danger of a Single Story
- She is so right about kids writing about what they see in book, she says a lot of important points
- Saved her from having a single story of what books are.
- this is so eye opening to what our kids have gone through. I am lucky to work with teachers that have made change in the curriculum before it was the norm!
- A single story of ____ -
- we can’t not make preconceived notions about our students, their cultures, home life, religion, and even past behaviors.
- Different versions of the same story
- Kids must see as well in their lives, the same things happening over and over again but with different people or teachers and nothing changes. However, they might just think nothing will ever change.
- We can’t not make single stories of students, we have the power they don’t, so we control their stories. We tell the story of kids.
- This makes me first think of behavior kids – I mention a example in my last post
- Stereotypes are incomplete – so true