Why Cant She Remember That?
By Terry Meier
Quotes:
1. “Marisa transformed her Original threat into a game by playfully naming all of the family members she supposedly would hit.”
· A lot of kids do this type of thing. They turn what ever it is that they said into a game so they don’t get into trouble for it. I have a six year old brother and he does this type of thing all the time. Kids will do what ever it takes to get out of trouble.
2. “Many children who are unused to books and being read to find it difficult to sit still for the time it takes the teacher to read even a fairly short picture book.”
· On top of children having difficulty paying attention, if there not read to at home they will be behind the other kids learning wise as well as not understanding they have to sit there, quietly and pay attention. It is very important to teach them at home as well as in school the basic learning techniques for entering school.
3. “As an African American child, I have never saw my face pr the lives of my family, friend and neighbors in the books that I read.”
· This quote is very true. I have seen very few books about people of color or of different races. Most books are about rich white people or just white people in general. This is not right how are we suppose to teach these kids that its not ok to be racist when the material we use to teach them doesn’t show it as well.
Overall this article was a very easy read for me. I like how there are a lot of real life examples in it. Like allthe other articles we’ve read they point out stuff that I have never noticed before. This article goes to show you how much we have to change so racism changes too.
Your comment to your first quote is funny to me because you said that kids transfor their threats into games. Its funny to me because people I work with do that all the time. Especially the cooks when they get aggrivated. Apparently they havent left thir childish side.
ReplyDeleteI agree that usually we dont see main charaters as colored in most the books in mainstreem society. This is very true of the schools I went to when i was younger. I can only think of maybe three books where a different race besides white was the lead character. And I stretching a few characeters becasue there werent really main characters.