QUOTATION

"Words are merely words, but real literature for any age is words chosen with skill and artistry to give the readers pleasure and to help them understand themselves and others."



Lukens, J. Rebecca



Theme

The relationship between children and the elderly.

To engage students in the classroom in meaningful dialogue about diversity using the medium of the classroom blog and personal interaction with multicultural text.
To encourage students to share their own cultural stories and "border cross" from one world to another.


Multicultural Children's Literature Selections

  • Valerie and the Silver Pear, Benjami Darling
  • Year of Impossible Goodbyes, Sook Nyul Choi
  • The Patchwork Quilt, Valerie Flournoy
  • Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs, Tomie dePaola
  • Grandpa's Town, Takkaaki Nomura
  • Annie and the Old One, Miska Miles
Learn
tolerance, empathy, acceptance, understanding of and respect for cultural differences

Become
a culturally responsive student

Read
multicultural literature







Friday, December 2, 2011

Post # 12

Final Post:

Students are required to spend some time reading and reflecting on peer's comments to The Crayon Box that Talked. Please comment on at least two peer's comments . Please begin your comments/reflections with, " My response to (name of student) is..." and, " My response to (name of student) is...". Remember that you may also comment on our V.P.'s post.

Happy Posting.

25 comments:

  1. My Response to Connor is:

    I think that you have a good understanding of The Crayon Box that Talked. You are 100% right when you say that we are all unique. God created us all differently so we are all considered special. No one should be singled out because they are different no matter what race, culture or colour. The crayons symbolize the struggles that minority races have to endure. Overall I liked your post.

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  2. My Response to Michael Yousif is:

    I like how you compared this story to the other ones that have read in this unit. It is different because it uses inanimate objects to show racial barriers. I also like how you use a quote from the story. “We are a box of crayons, each one of us unique. But when we come together the picture is complete.” This shows that if we worked together we would make the world seem like a beautiful picture.

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  3. My response to Joseph is:

    From your post it seems that you have a proper understanding of the lesson that was trying to be taught by Shane DeRolf. In your post you say, "we have to put it aside and love one another passed all the differences we have." I agree with this statement because I think it is very important for all of us to put each other's differences aside and focus mainly on our similarities. God created us all equal for a reason. His intention was for everyone to live at par, just like the crayons in the story.

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  4. My response to Mario Zuliani is:

    In your post you give an example of racial discrimination represented within the story. “No one likes orange, but no one knows why.” I agree that this can be classified as racism because no one has a reason to hate orange, but they still do. This is a result of stereotypes being input in the minds of innocent people. Most children grow up thinking a particular way towards a race without even knowing why they're thinking it. As a global society, we must try to stop looking at the small bad things about a race, and try to focus on how the majority of them actually are.

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  5. My response to Sonia is:

    I think we all have the same opinions on the book how its not just about crayons. I agree with you that God made us all different but we are all equal. We all have that one image of a culture in our heads but we don't really know what that culture is all about. We have this one thought but that thought changes once we see how the other cultures are.

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  6. My resposne to Amanda is:

    I like how you started your post off with a little summary of the book. You compared the book at the beginning and then reflected on reality. We are all unique and we should not let a different culture get in our way your right. We are all equal in Gods eyes.

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  7. My response to Alex Molella is:

    I noticed that you talked about the book first before you started to talk about the meaning of it. I like how you said that we realize that we are all special. We are all different from each other but we all have our own special talents and our own way of viewing life and the environment around us.

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  8. My response to Connie Nanfara is:

    I agree with you that this book is very interesting and has an important message. The author definately wants us to see the diversity between cultures. It is true that working together you can accompolish something it not suppose to matter who you are.

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  9. My response to Andrew Citta is

    I agree when you say that the crayons represents different races in the world and the box represents the Earth. I can relate to this because we did an activity in careers class where a jar represented life and the objects inside represented values in your life. We should all see the bigger picture right away instead of having to not get along because of our differences. The world would be much more peaceful and people would not judge one another.

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  10. My Response to Connor is:

    You are absolutely right when you say that we need to forget our differences and we shouldn't hate each other. You are right that we are all unique. Even if we are different, we can still learn to tolerate each other and accept the differences in between. Good job.

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  11. My response to Mario Zuliani

    You are correct when you say that the story teaches us to live in harmony. If we all give people a chance before we judge, the world would have much less problems. Racism is a big part of this world but it could easily be eliminated and it should. Stereo types are something that should never exist in our lives because it hurts peoples feelings and could ruin somebody's life. I agree when you say this teaches children that everyone is unique in a good way. If children learn from their young years that racism is a horrible thing, maybe one day it will be eliminated from the world.

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  12. My response to Frances Gasbarro is:

    You are right about what you said, that looks don't count and that everyone is equal and special. This reminds me of the old saying, "Never judge a book by its cover." And the crayons sure did that, by judging one another. Being prejudice and ignorant of a person's race, religion or culture isn't right. I learned in careers this year that we should value each other's opinions than on judging. But many people forget this. Good job.

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  13. My response to Elisa Loschiavo is:

    I agree with your statement, “We shouldn't judge others by the way they look before we get to know who they really are”. I find that in today’s society, we pre judge others by their appearance and we don’t take the time to physically know the person. We are so caught in the false stories that we never find out the real stories. Put appearance aside, and focus on the inner beauty!

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  14. My response to Alyssia Pascuzzi is:

    Alyssia, you have a good understanding of the story. You did a good job exposing the message of the story. The crayons in the box definitely represent and symbolize humans in the world. It is also very important that you mentioned that the girl put the crayons on the page and they co-existed. This shows that one person can make a difference. Great mention!

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  15. My response to Mario Zuliani is:

    You used real-life examples of real-life situations to help support the message of the story. Good job using your knowledge to make a connection. You also used the message of the book to signify the importance of being one and getting along, accepting other cultures and traditions, and incorporating them into our own culture and traditions.

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  16. My response to Mario Zuliani is:

    I agree with your comment, “These are stereotypes implanted in everyone’s mind”. Everyone seems to be stereotypical towards different ethnic cultures. We should embrace other cultures differences and accept everyone for who they are. God’s purpose is for everyone to be unique, respected and accepted.

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  17. My response written by Amanda Sinapi:

    Amanda, I 100% agree with you when you said "Our differences are what make us all unique". Our differences distinguish who we are as an individual, if we were all the same we wouldn't learn about anyone. Also when you said "We shouldn’t be judging others of how they look, because they may be doing the same to us". That was also a well stated quote because before we make a comment about someone's insecurities we should stop and think if we would really want that to happen to us. We should put ourselves in the other person's shoes and understand how they would feel, hopefully after that's done you will realize that it's disrespectful. Your post was well written !

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  18. My response written by Francesca Lanza:

    Francesca i agree with you when you state "No matter how hard we try the world will always have people who will not like other people because of their culture". I understand that our world will always have judgemental people but if a big group of people stand up for this wrong doing we can make a change on how people feel. We are defiantley one race which is human and we shouldn't divide ourselves among cultures just because we are different. You understand the true meaning of the story ! Great post girl

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  19. My response to Conor
    I agree with you completely we need to forget our differences and start focusing on our similarities because in the end we are all our own person special and unique,just the way God intended. We all play an important role in society no matter what race, language,or culture we're from. I really enjoyed reading your post.

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  20. My response to Connie Nanfara
    I agree people will always continue to stereotype different cultures because,everyone has there own opinions. Although it is not right nor civil people comment with strong opinions about other cultures without even knowing anything about that specific culture or person. I enjoyed reading your post.

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  21. My response to post #11 written by Teodora Tockovska
    Teodora I really liked your post I can really tell you understand the meaning of the story. I really liked how you said that the girl was the catalyst, because that is so true if she didn’t use the crayons they would have never realized the truth about each other. Also I liked how you said the girl can represent God and he created us to complete the big picture. Good post!

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  22. My response to post #11 written by Alyssia Pascuzzi
    Alyssia I think you did a great job on your post, you really understood the meaning of the story. I liked how you said, “Although everyone is different around the world we have to learn to embrace and tolerate with our differences.” That is so true if we humans were to be able to do this then there would be world peace. Finally I liked how you said we control the future which is true and if we could get along the future will good.

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  23. My response to alyssia

    I think you did a great job as to interpreting the book. I really liked how you said although everyone is different, we have to learn how to tolerate each others differences. I strongly agree with that because, its true, not everyone you meet in life, are not going to like you , you just have to let it be and accept it

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  24. My response to connie

    I have nothing more to say than that you comment was excellent, i think you really grasped the understanding of this book.

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  25. My response to post #11 written by Mario Zuliani:

    Mario I like how you talked about the fact that green said everyone hated green but no one knew why and how you also talked about the stereotypes we have in our minds.

    My response to post # 11 written by Alex Molella

    Alex I completely agree with the fact that you said the crayons began to notice that each of them were unique and how they were all special.

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