Session 3

I just wanted to share some thoughts to help you prepare for next weeks class.

• The Cortez article explores stereotypes and helps to differentiate betweeen generalizations and stereotypes. It looks at how stereotypes are created and helps to think about how these ideas might be introduced to children.
• The Reese article gives some background on Native American nations, introduces some important Native American authors, discusses stereotypes and texts with issues. Please be sure to take notes while you read and come to class with some key ideas or questions that you would like to bring to the discussion, as there won't the time to address all of this lengthy reading
• The Smith article is written by an author we will be looking closely at next week. It gives criteria to look at when choosing literature portraying Native Americans and addresses critical reviews of her work. We will be reading one of her books together in class next week.
• Remember that everyone needs to read Heart of a Chief next week, even though only group A is writing a questioning the text paper. Students from the other two groups should still be taking notes on their reading and coming to the book discussion with ideas they want to address. Those of you who are writing a questioning the text paper, be sure to pay careful attention the the guidelines of the assignment. Remember you will need to post your paper to the appropriate drop box by 6pm Tuesday evening and bring a hard copy to class to refer to during the book discussion.

I will address some blogging issues in a later post.