Girls Can! Determination Succeeds.
A storytime for grades K-3 encouraging girls and boys to go beyond their comfort zones,
to take risks and make history!
Featuring women who overcame gender, racial, and religious prejudice and even powered through disability to do things that they were told they couldn’t.
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
(Grace loves acting out stories. Told by her classmates that she can’t play the part of Peter Pan because she’s a girl & black, she learns that she can do anything she puts her mind to.)
“Grace is a fictional character (book in Picture Book/Easy Fiction section) but many real women overcame prejudice…(the next books all in the Biography section – non-fiction (true))”
Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors? The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell by Tanya Lee Stone
(Elizabeth Blackwell gets 28 rejection letters but perseveres and when a medical school accepts her, overcomes the teasing of her classmates and hostility of the townspeople, studies hard and graduates first in her class -- becoming the first female physician in America!)
Asked how many have a woman doctor? (about 1/2)
“next book is about a girl who would have to have many encounters with doctors…”
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman by Kathleen Krull
(Splendidly written inspiring story of a tiny, sickly black girl stricken by polio who overcame her disability and ended up winning 3 gold medals in track at the 1960 Olympics!)
“Wlima made her mark on the race course. Ruth has made it in the court house…”
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsberg Makes Her Mark by Debbie Levy
(Debbie Levy’s wonderfully-written new biography of America’s first Jewish woman Supreme Court Justice vividly shows young readers how Ruth’s early exposure to racial, religious, ethnic and gender prejudice made her decide to become a lawyer and become a lifelong trailblazer and leader in the courts to fight for those rights. It also notably includes Ruth’s lifelong friendship with Antonio Scalia and how their deep disagreements over legal issues did not keep them from talking about these issues and traveling together around the world. It is a message of talking tolerance deeply needed in these divided times.)
(Over the course of a day, a little girl pretends to be Sally Ride, Annie Oakley, Rosa Parks, Marie Curie, Elizabeth Blackwell, and her own Mommy – concluding “It’s me Isabella, the kindest, smartest, bravest, fastest, toughest, greatest girl that ever was”…dreaming about who she would be…tomorrow.)
Great book to use to see which of these women the kids recognize – and as a lead in to a show and tell of other biographies for them to read themselves.
More ideas for Women’s History Month: http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Women%27s%20History%20Month
3.2018 Bedm.
G My Name Is Girl: A Song of Celebration from Argentina to Zambia
ReplyDeleteAuthor/Illustrator: Dawn Masi
Girls all around the world do amazing things! In this alliterative alphabet picture book, girls from 26 countries from Argentina to Zambia celebrate the character traits that make them special, from adventurous Alba and Ayelen to inventive Indu and Ishani, to zealous Zahra and Zena. As young readers learn about these diverse and empowered girls, they'll also develop a new appreciation for countries around the world — and the way that we are all connected, even though we seem different on the surface. Endpapers with a map showing all the girls' faces will encourage kids to imagine themselves traveling all over the world! This is a joyful celebration of girlhood and diversity.