Books are unsettling, which is why they are often banned. But we need to be unsettled to get a handle on the chaos that confronts us.
Tag Archives: "Hill We Climb"
Thoughts on Book Bans
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Allison Bechdel, Amanda Gorman, Beloved, Better Living through Literature, Book banning, Circle, David Eggers, Forever, Fun Home, Judy Blume, Lord of the Flies, Robin Bates, Romeo and Juliet, Stephen Chbosky, To Kill a Mockingbird, Toni Morrison, William Golding, William Shakespeare Comments closed
In Censoring Gorman, We Censor Hope
Buckling to rightwing pressure, a school has banned Amanda Gorman’s “Hill We Climb” from elementary students. My 8-year-old grandson loved it.
March Madness Is Divinest Sense (Sort of)
Having a March Madness bracket for poems provided excitement for kids and enlightenment for this teacher.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Gate A-4", "Still I Rise", "Those Winter Sundays", "Two-Headed Calf", "World Is a Beautiful Place", Amanda Gorman, Laura Gilpin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, March Madness, Maria Konnikova, Maya Angelou, Naomi Shihab Nye, Robert Hayden Comments closed
The City on the Hill Requires Climbing
Amanda’s Gorman’s “Hill We Climb” provides an African American slant to Winthrop’s “city on a hill” image.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Mother to Son", Amanda Gorman, Biden inauguration, city on a hill, I Have a Dream speech, Langston Hughes, Martin Luther King Comments closed
