[ISLMA-Share] Alternative to To Kill a Mockingbird

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Oh...and they paired Monster with a non-fiction book The Other Wes Moore:
One Name, Two Fates.

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Our eighth graders read Monster by Walter Dean Myers.
>
> Michelle Harris
> Heyworth CUSD #4
>
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 9:50 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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>> The 8th grade reading teachers have traditionally taught *To Kill a
>> Mockingbird* as a unit in a context of civil rights and race relations -
>> past and present. One of the reading teachers would like to explore an
>> alternative to the novel— one that would not be told from a white male’s
>> perspective. Tall order, but definitely a valid point. I thought if anyone
>> had a brilliant idea, it would be from this group! Thank you for your
>> thoughts.
>>
>> Daphna Neirick
>> Library Information Specialist
>> Wilmette Junior High School
>> neirickd at wilmette39.org
>>
>>
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> Michelle Harris
> District Librarian
> Heyworth CUSD #4
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Michelle Harris
District Librarian
Heyworth CUSD #4
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