While I truly enjoyed the book, the articles from this week really got thinking about some things. Simi Linton's article on "Claiming Disability" was incredibly powerful. I knew that there are a lot of terms to refer to people with disabilities, but I never realized how many different connotations these words had. It made me realize that some words that I thought were more politically correct were actually slightly offensive. After reading the article, however, I was left slightly confused. I don't really know what terms are appropriate and I am now more self-conscious on the terms that I do use. According to the text, it seemed like all terms were slightly offensive in one way or another and now I really do not know what is ok and what is not.
The article on Children's Literature Collection also gave some great tips on books to use in the classroom. Rolling Along with Goldilocks and the Three Bears seems like it would be a great book to have in a lower elementary classroom. Since it is a story that the students would already be familiar with, I feel that they would be more receptive to the story and it might be able to grab their attention.
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