https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo Consider the text in students’ hands, specifically the section they will be reading today. Are there forms of bias in this text? If yes, so now what? en-us 2017-08-27 18:25:24 UTC 2026-03-17 05:44:17 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183719469 Linguistic bias- students may not have been exposed to how the text is structured as poetry and a diary from Jack's perspective. In addition, the vocabulary in some poems might be outside of students' background knowledge.

Visibility bias- all of the poets Jack is introduced to throughout the story except two are white males, would be more inclusive to include a variety of ethnicities and genders. ]]> 2017-08-30 15:47:42 UTC https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183719469 https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183720339 Stereotyping: Muslim men are militant (visually only show adult men as taliban soldiers) 

Rose Colored glasses: only Nasreen's father was taken. not talkign about how more men were against the Taliban.

Stereoptying: students may think all muslim woman wear Hijabs. 

Parts of the whole: Doesn't fully go into why the Taliban revolution. Doesn't go into that Taliban is am extremely violent subset of Islam- not the norm]]> 2017-08-30 15:49:54 UTC https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183720339 https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183722140 Fragmentation: Perspectives of striking workers, there is a little bit of knowledge is touched upon. The story is focused on Esperanza but the perspectives of those she interacts with like landowners, workers, are only shown in one sided fashions.

Imbalance: History of forced repatriations (deportations) is touched on lightly, but was a forced measure affecting some half a million people. The effects of the Great Depression and its causes of migration - could leave readers with the impression that the Mexicans just wanted to come to the U.S. because it is great and not because of economics.

]]> 2017-08-30 15:54:53 UTC https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183722140 ecallahan2 https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183722680 After reading this story with a critical and close sense, I have yet to find a true bias presented in the text. It seems that the story is quite simplistic and cheerful without any true inferences towards racial, cultural, religious and/or sexual bias. I am curious to know if any other team members have extracted any bias from this text. 
 On second thought there is a quote which states Llama Llama misses mama, which might infer that everyone has a mother.

On that note, in order to address that, I might open up a discussion to develop a community understanding of different family dynamics. 

]]> 2017-08-30 15:56:33 UTC https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183722680 https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183723227 I'm not sure if I saw any biases in the text. Maybe some other members of the team did. Seems like there was no racial diversity amongst the characters, but it was difficult to tell with the illustrations. ]]> 2017-08-30 15:58:11 UTC https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183723227 https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183723369 Imbalance and selectivity- A lot of pictures from third world countries and communities that look "poor" ]]> 2017-08-30 15:58:38 UTC https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183723369 https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183723508 I didn't feel there were biases in this story]]> 2017-08-30 15:59:07 UTC https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183723508 jgrant51 https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183723548 2017-08-30 15:59:15 UTC https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183723548 rmcclain13 https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183723652 TOOLS (grade 1)
The biased I noticed was that most (all?) of the people working with tools were people of color and they appeared to be poor]]> 2017-08-30 15:59:39 UTC https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183723652 jgrant51 https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183723739 Invisibility- no representation of students with different abilities

Linguistic Bias- characters saying 'i can't' do something, when there are students who actually might not be able to do things because of physical abilities.]]> 2017-08-30 15:59:56 UTC https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183723739 https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183723812 Invisibility:  I noticed that individuals with disabilities are not depicted in this story
Stereotyping: This story also takes place in a suburban neighborhood. They seem to live in a single family house that has easy access to food and toys. Also, the book seems to imply that everyone has a mother and mothers are in charge of childcare and domestic activities such as cooking and sewing]]> 2017-08-30 16:00:14 UTC https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183723812 https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183723916 I did not see any biases! Yay The Dot! Yay Vashti!]]> 2017-08-30 16:00:38 UTC https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183723916 https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183724326 After reading this story with a more critical lens looking for bias' I'm wondering if skin color will be brought up. Nelly has darker skin so I wonder if someone would feel like llama didn't want to play with her because she has darker skin. Not sure if that is reading into it to much. Also, this book has  a household family dynamic where playdates are run
 ]]> 2017-08-30 16:02:18 UTC https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183724326 https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183724444 2017-08-30 16:02:45 UTC https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183724444 https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183724447 Not sure if there are any bias, not very many characters in the story. ]]> 2017-08-30 16:02:47 UTC https://padlet.com/msidiropoulos/ezryl2e3dhdo/wish/183724447