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This weeks discussion topics:

Seeing yourself and others

Representation, misrepresentation, lack of representation

Racist and Stereotyping images

Personal Response to Books

Point of View

A "Library of the Future"

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Think about them or comment thoughts and ideas that we can contribute to our discussion on Thursday!

How have you been represented in literature? How does that make you feel?

What books fit into the Mirror, Window, and Sliding Glass door categories?

What considerations influence how you view The Snowy Day's authenticity?

How do you respond to seeing racist or stereotypical images?

What books and reading experiences do you remember vividly from your childhood?

Have you reread a children's book as an adult and have a very different response to it from the response you remember as a child?

How do the points of view of individual librarians influence the books that are available to children?

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Topics

Key take aways from professional reading

inclusion in the classroom

diversity

starfish ending

choosing diverse books

word storm explanations

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What did you find surprising after analyzing your text after watching the videos from Dr. Youngs?

Where do the books that you have chosen for the week fall within the Continuum? Did you have more of one category over the others? Why do you think that is?

Starfish

Why do you think Ellie wants to be a storyteller or a poet?

What other power structures exist in the book?

What did you think of Ellie's "Fat Girl Rules"?

How do things change for Ellie when she goes to Diana’s store (p. 37)? What does she notice that makes her act and feel differently?

How did you feel when you read about Ellie having to hide food (p. 56) and not being allowed to learn to play piano (p. 51)?

What is it like for Ellie when Catalina’s siblings let her sit in the front of the minivan (p. 75)? This could seem like a small action; does it feel that way to Ellie?

Why doesn’t Ellie feel better when she does things that can be seen as ways of standing up for herself, like insult her classmates back (p. 81) or steal the photo card from the tourists (p. 110)?

What does it mean for Ellie to invite Catalina to swim with her (p. 134)? How does it represent the changes in their friendship and in Ellie?

How would you have handled the situation with Marissa and Kortnee? What do you think Ellie did right?

How did you feel when Ellie finally confronted her mom? What events in the book made Ellie ready to do this?

In what ways in your life do you “starfish”? What does it mean and look like for you?

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(For some reason it didn't record us in one frame)

This week our group discussed the professional reading and inclusion in the classroom. We went over the our discussion questions on padlet and we shared our key takeaways from the ending of Starfish. We also shared our wordstorm ideas and how we related our words to Starfish.