Literature to Discuss Learning Differences by Dana Cavin https://padlet.com/Dana_MiT/gv4d5aiwaiuh Please add you book suggestion (or video games or videos) and a brief description. en-us 2018-05-31 21:04:58 UTC 2024-12-16 04:27:52 UTC hello@padlet.com Wonder by R.J. Palacio Dana_MiT https://padlet.com/Dana_MiT/gv4d5aiwaiuh/wish/264890737 Read-aloud or book club for 4th-5th graders]]> 2018-05-31 21:07:30 UTC https://padlet.com/Dana_MiT/gv4d5aiwaiuh/wish/264890737 Armond goes to a party by Nancy Carlson and her friend Armond Isaak. https://padlet.com/Dana_MiT/gv4d5aiwaiuh/wish/264892419 K-1

]]> 2018-05-31 21:19:03 UTC https://padlet.com/Dana_MiT/gv4d5aiwaiuh/wish/264892419 Perfect Chao Dana_MiT https://padlet.com/Dana_MiT/gv4d5aiwaiuh/wish/264894967 Cinda brought this book to class]]> 2018-05-31 21:36:40 UTC https://padlet.com/Dana_MiT/gv4d5aiwaiuh/wish/264894967 The Reader adamgs https://padlet.com/Dana_MiT/gv4d5aiwaiuh/wish/264904864 2018-05-31 23:17:50 UTC https://padlet.com/Dana_MiT/gv4d5aiwaiuh/wish/264904864 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime lanneralyssa https://padlet.com/Dana_MiT/gv4d5aiwaiuh/wish/264917239 High School level
Novel about a boy with autism that investigates the mysterious death of a neighborhood dog.]]> 2018-06-01 00:50:21 UTC https://padlet.com/Dana_MiT/gv4d5aiwaiuh/wish/264917239 Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key mary_e_rigler https://padlet.com/Dana_MiT/gv4d5aiwaiuh/wish/264927768 Book about the daily life and challenges faced by Joey, a boy dealing with hyperactivity and ADHD. Recommended grades 3-6.]]> 2018-06-01 02:12:33 UTC https://padlet.com/Dana_MiT/gv4d5aiwaiuh/wish/264927768 Stuck in Neutral https://padlet.com/Dana_MiT/gv4d5aiwaiuh/wish/264935322 "Shawn McDaniel's life is not what it may seem to anyone looking at him. He is glued to his wheelchair, unable to voluntarily move a muscle—he can't even move his eyes. For all Shawn's father knows, his son may be suffering. Shawn may want a release. And as long as he is unable to communicate his true feelings to his father, Shawn's life is in danger.

To the world, Shawn's senses seem dead. Within these pages, however, we meet a side of him that no one else has seen—a spirit that is rich beyond imagining, breathing life."
https://www.harpercollins.com/9780064472135/stuck-in-neutral/

recommended grades 7 and up
]]> 2018-06-01 03:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/Dana_MiT/gv4d5aiwaiuh/wish/264935322 Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima yoder101 https://padlet.com/Dana_MiT/gv4d5aiwaiuh/wish/264941887 A thinly veiled fictionalizing of Mishima's own childhood, our protagonist Kochan grows up a "sickly," weak boy (unexplained physical disability) whose grandmother keeps him from the other boys because she's worried for his safety. Kochan comes of age in WW2/post-war Japan and realizes that his health is not the only thing that makes him different than the other boys. As he comes to terms with his sexuality and feels he can't possibly exist in his society, Kochan puts on a mask of being okay and straight while slipping into a deep depression.

This is a great book and has lots of applicability to students, especially LGBT and those struggling with mental health issues. But, Mishima captures depressive thoughts/fantasies about death pretty effectively so I'd only recommend for mature students, late HS.
-Chris ]]> 2018-06-01 04:10:56 UTC https://padlet.com/Dana_MiT/gv4d5aiwaiuh/wish/264941887 Marcelo in the Real World https://padlet.com/Dana_MiT/gv4d5aiwaiuh/wish/265129764 Marcelo Sandoval hears music no one else can hear--part of the autism-like impairment no doctor has been able to identify--and he's always attended a special school where his differences have been protected. But the summer after his junior year, his father demands that Marcelo work in his law firm's mailroom in order to experience "the real world." There Marcelo meets Jasmine, his beautiful and surprising coworker, and Wendell, the son of another partner in the firm.

He learns about competition and jealousy, anger and desire. But it's a picture he finds in a file -- a picture of a girl with half a face -- that truly connects him with the real world: its suffering, its injustice, and what he can do to fight.]]> 2018-06-02 06:50:41 UTC https://padlet.com/Dana_MiT/gv4d5aiwaiuh/wish/265129764