Wide Reading Part Two:
The books shown above all deal with the topic of "the other", and differences and how to classify things and people in ways that "make intuitive" sense. In Tili y el muro by Leo Lioni, all of the rats are afraid of what is on the other side of the wall. As a result of hearing how terrible it is, and how the "other" is different and thus wrong or worse, Tili becomes curious and decides to go over the wall. La otra orilla is another text with a similar story line. A mother tells her daughter not to go across the water because different and "other" people live over there. The girl does go across the water, makes a friend and learns about humanity, joining her village to her new friend'svillage. The book, Pero, ?Donde esta ornicar? is about trying to classify a platapus (un ornicorico) because he is a mammal who lays eggs, he is neither like a bird nor like a mammal, so where does he fit? Finally the book "No te metas conmigo" talks about bullying at school and using differences not as strengths but as sources for division and misunderstanding.
Students, a traves de estos libros, can develop a sense of purpose behind our need to classify ourselves into groups of like and different, as well as our unity as living things, and as humanity.
All of these books are in your CCSS collection in your library. Ask Marlene at Banting how she plans to use them :)
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