Final Post: Reflection on the class

I was so excited to take this course and I heard awesome things about it. I learned that there was a lot of criteria that needed to be looked at and considered when looking for and picking out diverse literature for your classroom library. I learned a lot about insiders and outsiders and who is "allowed" to write a story about a specific culture. I have learned that the author does not need to be from that specific culture and I have found that interesting. While doing my final project, I noticed how little children's literature there is on all the different cultures in the world. I think that for the most part, I learned a great deal about diverse children's literature. I would have liked to discuss the books in more depth and what made them diverse literature. I loved all of the books that we read. There was so much to each of them that I looked at while reading them and our discussion group had so much to talk about when it came to these novels. The novels were ones that I think children and young adults could relate to. I liked how books were brought into the classroom for us to look at and browse. It gave me a lot of ideas to look for when I go to create my classroom library filled with diverse literature books. Overall, I think back on everything we have talked about in this course and I learned a lot. I liked the topics that we covered in class and enjoyed learning about all of the different cultures there are out there that are portrayed in children's literature and I am excited to start getting different books in my growing library for my future students and library. I really enjoyed the content that was covered in this course.