Hello everyone and welcome to my blog! This is my first time blogging so I hope you enjoy my words and I look forward to your response!
My name is Jenna and I am a senior in the College of Education at Michigan State University. I am an elementary education, language arts major. I am enjoying every second of my time in the field and look forward to applying what I learn about diverse literature to my own classroom and others in the future.
When I think of diverse and multicultural literature I think of all the possibilities of learning about others and their cultures. Diversity encompasses many different aspects whether it be race, religion, background, interests, gender, learning abilities, or socio-economic status. This is just a sample of ideas of diversity over a large spectrum. I believe it is very important to have a wide variety of diverse literature in a classroom. As a college student, I have been exposed to many different books on cultures that I knew very little about. They tend to fascinate me and always leave me wanting more! I now realize that my education on diversity would have been more interesting and beneficial if I had been introduced to a greater variety of multicultural and diverse literature as a younger student.
This class is giving me the opportunity to expand on my ideas of why diverse literature is important to everyone. I hope to learn what types of diverse literature make up a quality collection and how to identify which books are "quality". I look forward to hearing questions posed by my classmates because I am sure they have crossed my mind at one point or another.
"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same" - Anne Frank
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