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I let out a little Marxist squeal when I saw this on the charity table at the supermarket. Who the hell else in my sadly staunch Tory stronghold of a village is reading Freire?!
I'm all the more encouraged to read it because of a one-star GR review that begins, "This book is Marxist indoctrination of poor people dressed up as a revolutionary education theory," which they've shelved as "Not to be read". Sounds right up my street! ✊?

This book was SO much fun. If you‘re a teacher, journaler, artist, writer, or looking for any interdisciplinary course content, this is the book. She has her students drawing, reading, writing, remembering poems and creating their own books in composition books. It‘s just wonderful!

What else can you come up with?!?

I‘ve been doing pretty good resisting the temptation of the free book table at work, but today I succumbed 😆 #BookHaul

Today's reading

“Black boys play with building blocks, are fascinated by clocks“

This book uses rhythm and alliteration. Alliteration is the repetition of identical initial consonant sounds in successive or closely associated syllables within a group of words.

This book consists of poems about Black boys and young men depict thirteen views of everyday life: dressed in Sunday best, running to catch a bus, growing up to be teachers, and much more. Each of Tony Medina‘s tanka is matched with a different artist—including recent Caldecott and Coretta Scott King Award recipients.

Written by a brilliant children‘s book author, scholar, history professor and Connecticut sheepherder, this concise, eloquent lecture of a book was meant to instill values in high schoolers that would steer them toward writing succinctly, testing fluidly, learning avidly and thinking well. But as the popularity of this work attests to, adults who read Armstrong are all the better equipped too, in facing life‘s demands after academia.