Teach Out Project Proposal
Danielle Fonseca
FNED 502 (Summer Session I, May 2019)
The power of storytelling is well known to many, and provides the message an author wishes to share in such a creative and influential way. By choosing to design my very own Children’s Book to emphasize the social and racial injustices that continue to permeate our society, I make it my personal intention to shift mindsets in young children to observe and think with “new eyes” to accept and curiously inquire about all backgrounds and cultures.
The title of my Children’s Book is called “Using All the Colors in the Crayon Box : A 5-Year-Old’s Tale of Cultivating Rainbows.” Each page will be simple, yet paramount in its words and illustrations, to express the desire to change the status quo and build community among all of its members. Each page will talk about a different colored “crayon kindergartener’s” mini story shared during Morning Meeting, to show his or her culture/traditions and racial identity. Then, at the end of the book, all of the children come together to create a rainbow of acceptance and love for each other’s stories….as one crayon box family!
The two articles that I'll summarize and connect to this project are those by Lisa Delpit (culture of power, culturally relevant pedagogy) and Armstrong and Wildman (shifting the new racism of "colorblindness" by those with privilege to that of "color insight")
The two articles that I'll summarize and connect to this project are those by Lisa Delpit (culture of power, culturally relevant pedagogy) and Armstrong and Wildman (shifting the new racism of "colorblindness" by those with privilege to that of "color insight")
FYI - Drawing crayon children (or people in general) is not a talent of mine....so no poking fun at my illustrations!!!! I may even recruit my kindergartners to help!!
Love the idea of having your students do the drawings... and even if they don't I promise we will not laugh. THe content is more important! Don't go too big or too lofty here. Try to focus on a smaller message that you hope to teach with this book so you don't get tangled up in Kumbaya and lose track of the power issues we have been learning about. Let's talk more if you need help with the brianstorming!
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