Choice 2 Resources

Multi-cultural books:

• Amazing Grace
• Wonder- A boy with facial deficiencies, and is homeschooled until 5th grade. The story is about the boy's journey going to school and making friends
• Thank you, Mr. Falker- Girl with borderline learning disability with reading, gets bullied.
• Ragged Dick- Life in NY during the Industrial Revolution
• Chanda's Secrets- little girl in made up village in Africa- talks about how she's shunned for having HIV/AIDS (has movie called life above all)
• Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy- Poem from the perspective of a girl during the Holocaust
• Henry's Freedom Box- Slave and entire family was sold, main character tired of it so he got in a box and was literally shipped to freedom-land.
• Freak the Mighty- Two disabled students become friends and use each other's strengths to benefit 
• A Monster Calls- Mother has cancer- child's journey
• Tru Confessions- Girl's brother has a developmental delay and her dream is to cure it; journal of her life
• Mommy, Mama, and Me & Daddy, Papa, and Me
• Perks of Being a Wallflower- GLBTQ Book
• Brokeback Mountain- GLBTQ Book
• Sing You Home- GLBTQ Book
• Maniac Magee- Civil Rights and Segregation from a middle school student's point of view
• House on Mango Street- Spanish girl in Chicago that doesn't have a steady home; it's her dream to have a permanent home (Poetry-like style) Talks about being raped, and the drunk guy on the street talking to her and her friend- (short book, but for older students)
• The Seasons and Someone- About Alaskan Natives- In a "What If" format from an Eskimo girl's perspective; easy book, but critical thinking is important when reading
• American Born Chinese- Comic book form - 3 stories in one- stories discuss stereotypes of Chinese people
• The Diary of Anne Frank

Technology/Texts:

• Animoto- Videos
• Spicy Nodes-Interactive Slides
• Glogster-PinBoard
• Dipity-Online Timeline
• Flocabulary- Hip-Hop in the Classroom
• RAFT
• SPAWN
• MindMeister-Interactive Slides
• Prezi-Interactive Slides
• Tiki-Toki- Interactive Timeline
• Weebly- online blog/website
• Pixton- online comic strip (one for teachers)
• Linoit- online bulletin board with sticky notes
• Stormboard- online bulletin board with sticky notes