Amanda Gorman has a new poetry book coming out named after her poem, The Hill We Climb. https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0593465067/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?dchild=1&qid=1611172894&refinements=p_27%3AAmanda+Gorman&s=books&sr=1-2&text=Amanda+Gorman
Possibly The Giver By Lois Lowry. The snow and death thing is spot on.
> Here is a left leaning news outlet covering the fact CRT is in fact being taught, if a lefty news org saying it won't convince you nothing will
Lol, that's MSN.com, not MSNBC. It's a news aggregator that just collects articles from different news sources. This particular one is a story from the Washington Examiner, which is absolutely, hilariously not a lefty news outlet.
What's more, the Examiner is just relaying the claims of Christopher Rufo, the same guy I linked to in the previous comment, who openly admitted that they deliberately turned CRT into a more generalized fear-mongering term than what Critical Race Theory actually is. And if you look at Rufo's chart, it shows that most of the complaints were just about schools having a certain offensive book on a recommended reading list, or reading some portion of it (potentially not even the part that's offending conservatives) to the class. It's not a Critical Race Theory textbook that is used as the basis of the curriculum, it's a children's picture book (this is the book that Rufo objected to, and here is a discussion between the author and someone critical of it, in which the author repeatedly says, "nobody wants white kids to feel bad about being white").
And anyway, I don't just dogmatically assume that something is true because a left-leaning news outlet says so. Why, is that what you do with right-leaning sites?
garbage editorial in a right wing rag
why not just quote Greg Abbott
>https://www.amazon.com/Not-My-Idea-Whiteness-Ordinary/dp/1948340003
doesn't look like either a school curriculum or a book about critical race theory
Read the book... seems like a positive curriculum that we all need....
https://www.amazon.com/Not-My-Idea-Whiteness-Ordinary/dp/1948340003
It was designed for children by the way.
People trying to reimagine us history to fit a narrative that at its root level is a theory and has no proof or documentation throughout history. It tells black children they are oppressed and white children they are oppressors, it tells black children they cant succeed because of systemic racism. It's all bs and based around lies and manipulation... hence why they are going after the kids.
I would highly suggest pulling your kid out of any school that would even think about teaching this divisive shit.
https://www.amazon.com/Not-My-Idea-Whiteness-Ordinary/dp/1948340003
This book was being taught to children in a public school with no parents knowing. This book is specifically designed for children. This shit is next level crazy, another fun thing to look up is for the adults. Go on to youtube and look up what corporations force employees to take a class on this crt based model. It is mind blowing that people legit aren't just standing around shocked lol.
The idea that white men are suppressors because of the color of their skin. The moment you're forming a world view focused on skin colour you've lost the plot.
There are no laws requiring RCMP officers to take people on starlight tours based on their skin colour. Those officers and their superiors should be held accountable. But you'll have trouble gaining support from a large portion of our population if you tell them their skin colour is problematic.
I have a white male friend who got in trouble for marijuana possession, just because you got lucky doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Police will leave you alone if you don't draw attention to yourself. And sure, there are some who specifically target individuals based on skin colour and they should be held accountable.
I asked you for policies in place that our country uses to prop up whites, you can't present any.
But teaching our children books such as:
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1948340003/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_i_CSSP4AVNFZE48P058JE8
is unacceptable.
It was an objectively bad poem, filled with clichés and neoliberal clap-trap about American exceptionalism, unity, etc. I've spoken to a few friends about this. They all agree, but are too afraid to say anything on social media for fear of backlash.
But Gorman has a pretty sweet grift going on. She just started a preorder for a forthcoming book of poetry that's gonna come out in September 2021. Gotta strike while the iron is hot...
The Giver (Lowis Lowry) é bem tranquilo de vocabulário e curto
https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/0544336267/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_I.qoFbGGMH2KG
Não-ficção sugiro os livros do Randall Munroe, valem muito a pena, como What if e principalmente no seu caso o Thing Explainer, onde ele explica como várias coisas funcionam usando apenas as 1000 palavras mais usadas e comuns do inglês
https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/0544668251/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_t8qoFb2TH7P2T
I mean, you could argue that A Brave New World kind of eluded to it in a way. You could also see the beginnings of social with creations like Max Headroom. You could also kind of see social as part of tons of scifi in the sense that people know where you are and what you are doing. My phone automatically checks me in to certain places and I have tracking on for my family so they know where I am.
For more contemporary scifi, The Uglies is a young adult series from like 2006ish??? that really nailed social before social was a huge boom.
Definitely Feed by M.T. Anderson. It's told from the perspective of an adolescent living in a future where we have colonized other planets, and everybody has brain implants that basically fulfill the roles of Facebook, Amazon, Grooveshark, etc. Kids can even download viruses into their brains which get them high like drugs would.
The protagonist finds himself having to navigate a glamorous world of instant gratification where everybody talks in Youtube comments, and the unplugged "real world" of a poor but well-educated teacher's daughter that he likes. Published in 2002, it has a lot of spot-on predictions about the social role the internet is fulfilling. Simple language, but challenging themes. Should be required reading for all kids these days, but it's the kind of book a 14-year old would completely get into. The first sentence:
"We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck."
Divergent by Veronica Roth, or the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Both feature strong female protagonists; both have action galore; both were devoured by my fiance who denies he has the ability to read. I think Divergent's better, but all three Hunger Games books are out and the second in the Divergent series won't be out till May.. :'(
Feed by M.T. Anderson can prove otherwise. With knowledge closer than your fingertips, people would no longer care to learn. They would rather be entertained. Imagine Reddit and Wikipedia in your head. Would you rather read Wikipedia or Reddit? Reddit, because the knowledge is there permanently to be discovered, briefly played with, and put back in its place, never to be thought about again.
I thought that was just the plot to the best-selling book, The Giver.
Edit: Dammit, that was already said....I guess there's at least a link to the book on this comment.
While it's a nice gesture, your selection of books might have the opposite effect and turn her off sci-fi forever. If someone is "curios" about getting into something, you probably shouldn't start with the classics. It should probably start with lighter fare and more pop modern sci-fi. Especially seeing (from your other comments) that she is 12 years old and likes Harry Potter and Erragon. Some might argue that Hitchhikers might fit this bill - but a lot of the humor is spoof. Ever watch a "spoof" movie and have no idea what the movie scene reference is? Yeah it's kinda like that.
Perhaps something like Uglies by Scott Westerfield which from it's synopsis sounds like a far left dystopia (twist on eugenics) series written for a teenage audience. It seems to have a ton of great reviews and is in the top 100 bestselling young adult fiction.