Critical Literacy for Young Citizens
As I was reading this weeks reading, I couldn't help but think about what we did in school right before Thanksgiving break. In my fourth grade class, we did not even go into the big talk of what is Thanksgiving. We gave each student a parts of speech turkey and they had to color it in according to the part of speech. As they were doing this, we had a virtual field trip playing on the promethean board where they talked about the Indians and described what they wear. Most of the students were too concentrated on their turkey to worry about what was playing. After they finished their turkey, we asked them to write a letter to someone telling them why they are thankful for them. I was in my placement class for two hours, then I was pulled in to help 5th grade with their celebration. When the students are in fifth grade they have one day where they get to dress up like pilgrims and they rotate to do activities related to what pilgrims use to do back then. The very first stat...