6 Quick Ways to Get Started with Global Children’s Literature
Posted on September 16, 2020
“Can we start the new academic year with a more global perspective?”
9 Great Personal Essays for Fall
Posted on September 08, 2020
Looking for literature to get students talking and reflecting about their lives today? Below, we've listed 9 great personal essays to inspire that reflection, written by authors from around the globe.
From Russia and Mexico, 5 Stories and Poems at the Intersection of Race and Class
Posted on August 10, 2020
Navigating a Highly Visual World: The Importance of Helping Students Analyze Global Graphic Fiction
Posted on July 07, 2020
Students in Washington College’s Children’s and Young Adult Literature class are there because they enjoy reading, they want to write, or they want to teach about literature for younger readers. This year’s class contains seventeen students from a variety of majors, but mostly studying English, elementary education, or secondary English education; more than half intend to teach. These students recently applied what they had been learning about reading literature with pictures to analyze the international graphic works recommended in the WWB Campus blog post “Global Graphic Lit to Fire Up Your Students This Winter,” which caught my eye just as I was about to introduce illustrated texts to the class.
Quechua-Peruvian Journalist Marco Avilés on Racism, Bilingualism and More
Posted on June 29, 2020
An editorial in today's New York Times suggests that "Latin America Is Ready for Its Black Lives Matter Reckoning."