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I‘ve been doing pretty good resisting the temptation of the free book table at work, but today I succumbed 😆 #BookHaul

Today's reading

“Black boys play with building blocks, are fascinated by clocks“

This book uses rhythm and alliteration. Alliteration is the repetition of identical initial consonant sounds in successive or closely associated syllables within a group of words.

This book consists of poems about Black boys and young men depict thirteen views of everyday life: dressed in Sunday best, running to catch a bus, growing up to be teachers, and much more. Each of Tony Medina‘s tanka is matched with a different artist—including recent Caldecott and Coretta Scott King Award recipients.

Written by a brilliant children‘s book author, scholar, history professor and Connecticut sheepherder, this concise, eloquent lecture of a book was meant to instill values in high schoolers that would steer them toward writing succinctly, testing fluidly, learning avidly and thinking well. But as the popularity of this work attests to, adults who read Armstrong are all the better equipped too, in facing life‘s demands after academia.

Revisit to one I studied in teachers‘ college (my choice!) years ago. Still relevant: students aren‘t empty vessels, there shouldn‘t be a split between “leaders” and “followers” when organizing for social justice, the political left can be just as guilty as the right for self-righteously neglecting to include everyone in work for change, space for love and creativity is needed.
#ReadingTheAmericas2023 #Brazil
#Nonfiction2023 #MasterofPuppets

The essential elements of witness include consistency between words and actions; boldness, which urges the witnesses to confront issues of permanent risk; radicalization, not sectarianism; courage to love, which doesn‘t accommodate an unjust world, but transforms that world on behalf of the increasing liberation of humankind; and faith in the people. Witness which has not borne fruit under certain conditions can still bear fruit tomorrow.