The book The House on Mango Street is about a Mexican-American or Chicana girl, her family, her friends, and her values. My seventh grade students come from culturally diverse backgrounds and need literature with characters that look like them, talk like them, and live like them. My students who are not of color need books like this, too, so they can learn to walk in someone else's shoes.
Seventh graders need to study culturally diverse literature so they can empathize with people from different backgrounds. Students in seventh grade are especially impressionable and curious; this is a very special year in their lives when they become more self-aware and more conscious of the world around them. They pay particular attention to injustice, whether it be over age (theirs, in particular), race, gender, or sexual orientation.
Books like The House on Mango Street offer a diverse and unique voice from which students can learn. It is a book that will open rich and honest discussions among my students and allow me, as their caring teacher, to guide them toward understanding, acceptance, and empathy that can be applied toward their peers in our very own classroom!
This book will help my students strengthen their own character through reading about Esperanza Cordero, the main character.
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The book The House on Mango Street is about a Mexican-American or Chicana girl, her family, her friends, and her values. My seventh grade students come from culturally diverse backgrounds and need literature with characters that look like them, talk like them, and live like them. My students who are not of color need books like this, too, so they can learn to walk in someone else's shoes.
Seventh graders need to study culturally diverse literature so they can empathize with people from different backgrounds. Students in seventh grade are especially impressionable and curious; this is a very special year in their lives when they become more self-aware and more conscious of the world around them. They pay particular attention to injustice, whether it be over age (theirs, in particular), race, gender, or sexual orientation.
Books like The House on Mango Street offer a diverse and unique voice from which students can learn. It is a book that will open rich and honest discussions among my students and allow me, as their caring teacher, to guide them toward understanding, acceptance, and empathy that can be applied toward their peers in our very own classroom!
This book will help my students strengthen their own character through reading about Esperanza Cordero, the main character.
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