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The Class Canon and Cancel Culture

When I read the article "Do Works by Men Implicated by #MeToo Belong in the Classroom" by Emma Goldberg I had lots of mixed emotions. First, I understand how she didn’t want to tell her class about the accusations made. The kids love the story and the words that were written out about the things they were going through personally. The connections we very powerful for those students and taking that away would just cause their world even more setbacks which they did not need. On the other hand, though I do understand how schools don't want to normalize the abuse aspects. I do think that banning them from the curriculum is not ok though. Students need to be able to know how to have hard conversation and be able to not just ignore the facts. In our current situation though they have full access to the internet so there for they can look up anything.

Second my reaction and thoughts about the video "The Problem with Cancel Culture" by Ayishat Akanbi talked about not always being right. This is the main part that stood out to me a lot because I believe it is important to base things on your own and not just agree. Having your own thoughts and way of thinking about culture is very valuable for those students. Then as a adult they are able to have their own biases and thoughts on the world not what someone else wants.

Third the article titled "How to Get the Most Out of a Diverse Classroom Library" by Don Vu talked about having book that are windows and mirrors. I think that the whole thought behind that is very awesome way to look at some important facts. If a book is a mirror, then the child sees them self and are relating to something within the book. Then if the book is window then the child is able to see the world around them and see the connections with the world to their world. As I read that I thought of three books I would like to include in my classroom first one is "The Proudest Blue". This is a book about the Somali tradition of wearing a hijab and talks about how the main character feels when she is wearing one into sixth grade. The second book that I thought about was "After the Fall" which is about a story of humpy dumpty. was scared to fall again but was determined to get back up. I could see students connecting to this book with facing something hard but having the determination to accomplish it. The last one that I thought about was "The Mitten" which shows how a child lost a mitten and the animals found it. This book would allow children to understand that they aren’t the only one who lost a mitten, but also relate to seeing the animals.


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