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Identifying Bias, Omission and Stereotypes in Thanksgiving Literature

Help me give my students books about Thanksgiving so they can practice reading critically.

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My Students

When walking into my classroom, you will see a racially and economically diverse group of students, working together, talking, sharing ideas and challenging each other to learn and grow. The group is academically mixed, with some children performing well above grade level, some for whom academic learning is difficult. Children with learning differences are fully integrated into the life of the classroom and an outside observer would not be able to tell who is struggling academically and who is not.

Because students have different strengths and learn in different ways, opportunities are created for students to both learn and express their knowledge in multiple ways.

Cooperative learning is valued and children work together on projects to expand and demonstrate their knowledge. At any time, there may be children working independently, with teachers or with paraprofessionals.

My Project

I believe it is essential to teach children how to think about the world critically. Rather than passively receiving information, students need to develop the skills to investigate and critique the source and quality of information.

“Critical literacy is not a teaching method but a way of thinking and a way of being that challenges texts and life as we know it.

Critical literacy focuses on issues of power and promotes reflection, transformation, and action. It encourages readers to be active participants in the reading process: to question, to dispute, and to examine power relations.” Paolo Freire in Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

Using these materials, students will learn about different perspectives of the story of Thanksgiving in social studies and then analyze a variety of texts (picture books, nonfiction texts and even board books) looking for bias, omission and stereotypes within each text. By empowering students with this language, I hope to empower them to think more critically about the representation of facts and stories in history as well as in present day.

Ms. Kaelin The Brooklyn New School at PS 146 Grades 3-5

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More than a third 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

30 students impacted 13donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving (National Geographic) • Amazon Business $7.95 4 $31.80
The First Thanksgiving (Picture Puffin Books) • Amazon Business $6.99 4 $27.96
The Pilgrims' First Thanksgiving • Amazon Business $6.64 4 $26.56
The Pilgrims of Plimoth (Aladdin Picture Books) • Amazon Business $8.51 3 $25.53
What Was the First Thanksgiving? • Amazon Business $5.99 4 $23.96
The First Thanksgiving: A Lift-the-Flap Book • Amazon Business $5.99 4 $23.96
The First Thanksgiving (Step-Into-Reading, Step 3) • Amazon Business $3.99 6 $23.94
If You Were a Kid at the First Thanksgiving • Amazon Business $7.95 3 $23.85
Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving • Amazon Business $5.90 4 $23.60
The Thanksgiving Story • Amazon Business $7.59 3 $22.77
My First Thanksgiving • Amazon Business $5.38 4 $21.52
Pilgrims: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #27: Thanksgiving on Thursday • Amazon Business $6.99 3 $20.97
Little Critter: Just a Special Thanksgiving • Amazon Business $4.99 4 $19.96
T is for Turkey: A True Thanksgiving Story • Amazon Business $4.99 4 $19.96
Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving • Amazon Business $6.48 3 $19.44
This First Thanksgiving Day: A Counting Story • Amazon Business $6.38 3 $19.14
The Mayflower and Thanksgiving History | Pilgrims Edition | 2nd Grade U.S. History Vol 1 • Amazon Business $9.42 2 $18.84
Thanksgiving (First Step Nonfiction ― American Holidays) • Amazon Business $6.71 2 $13.42
One Little, Two Little, Three Little Pilgrims (Picture Puffin Books) • Amazon Business $6.64 2 $13.28
Thanksgiving Counting (First Celebrations) • Amazon Business $6.14 2 $12.28
Pilgrims of Plymouth (Rise and Shine) • Amazon Business $5.95 2 $11.90
The Story of the Pilgrims (Pictureback(R)) • Amazon Business $3.59 3 $10.77

Materials cost

$455.41

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.83

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$492.24

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$86.87

Total project goal

$579.11

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $579.11

12 Donors

-$531.91

Donations toward project cost

-$460.37

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$71.54

match offer

-$37.50

Match offer toward project cost

-$31.88

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$5.62

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$9.70

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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