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  • Dillard Drive Middle School
  • Raleigh, NC
  • Half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Utilizing these novels will allow our students to engage with a unit about heroism and mythology. We typically read "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief." However, we so often read novels from the perspective of a white male protagonist, and while this is representative of some of our students, it is not the majority. It is doing the students a disservice to only hear from one perspective and is an equity issue. Students deserve to have representation in their learning, and in the literature that they are reading. While there is an increased amount of novels that contain diverse characters, they are often historical fiction or focus on the stereotypical circumstances that individuals may face coming from that background. We believe that it is important that students see themselves in a novel that is not focusing on the negative aspects of life but also portrays these characters as heroes, and as people who can change the world, as all our students are world changers themselves. Also, reading this novel incorporates West African mythology and African American folk tales. By reading this novel they will be gaining another perspective or point of view that is not typically discussed. This will allow our students to become more global citizens.

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Utilizing these novels will allow our students to engage with a unit about heroism and mythology. We typically read "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief." However, we so often read novels from the perspective of a white male protagonist, and while this is representative of some of our students, it is not the majority. It is doing the students a disservice to only hear from one perspective and is an equity issue. Students deserve to have representation in their learning, and in the literature that they are reading. While there is an increased amount of novels that contain diverse characters, they are often historical fiction or focus on the stereotypical circumstances that individuals may face coming from that background. We believe that it is important that students see themselves in a novel that is not focusing on the negative aspects of life but also portrays these characters as heroes, and as people who can change the world, as all our students are world changers themselves. Also, reading this novel incorporates West African mythology and African American folk tales. By reading this novel they will be gaining another perspective or point of view that is not typically discussed. This will allow our students to become more global citizens.

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