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Acknowledgements
Kindness makes the world go round!
Many thanks goes to the anonymous person who generously gifted me a copy of Vera Ahiyya’s Rebellious Read Alouds: Inviting Conversations About Diversity with Children’s Books. I am so grateful to you for being so considerate and I cannot wait to dive into this piece and to also pay your kindness forward to someone else.
Daniel Nayeri’s Everything Sad Is Untrue (a true story) Whole Class Novel Set
Thank you, Flipgrid for surprising my students and I at school with a massive package of…TEN VOICE PODS! I’m so happy to share these with my team to keep the magic of student voice going!
Daniel Nayeri’s Everything Sad Is Untrue (a true story) Whole Class Novel Set
Many thanks goes to my dear friend and Katy ISD Adopt-a-Teacher Sponsor as well as my department chair for supporting my multilingual learners with copies of this incredible book!
About: At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls “Daniel”) stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou’s stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the
moment his family fled Iran in the middle of the night with the secret police moments behind them, back to the sad, cement refugee camps of Italy…and further back to the fieldsnear the river Aras, where rain-soaked flowers
bled red like the yolk of the sunset had burst over everything, and further back still to the jasmine-scented city of Isfahan. Like Scheherazade in a hostile classroom, Daniel weaves a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. And it is (a true story).
Trevor Noah’s Born A Crime
Many thanks goes to my dear friend in all things ELA, Assistant Professor of English, Sara Fuller of Fuller Teaching Resources for gifting my multilingual learners an additional copy of this authobiography.
About: Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life.
Tehlor Kay Mejia’s We Set The Dark On Fire Book Club Set
Many thanks goes to my dear friend in all things ELA, Danielle of Nouvelle ELA for gifting my multilingual learners a club set of this novel.
About: In this daring and romantic fantasy debut perfect for fans of The Handmaid’s Tale and Latinx authors Zoraida Córdova and Anna-Marie McLemore, society wife-in-training Dani has a great awakening after being recruited by rebel spies and falling for her biggest rival.