Projects,+Consumables,+Events

Here are the assignments we decided on at our last meeting:
 * Events**

Rachel - Multicultural Reading Bee Darsi - Work with local multicultural groups to bring in guest speakers, share books, crafts, and culture Jo - Different types of clothing and houses Laura - Compare fairytales of different cultures Gail - Set up a display of multicultural cookbooks and organize a food fair

Here is what I have so far for the Reading Bee. It is mostly finished, although I would like to add something to the end about reflection on the process, or how to evaluate success of this one particular program. Feel free to read it and let me know what you think.
 * Rachel's Event - Multicultural Reading Bee**



I haven't done the titles in citation form yet.
 * Gail's Event - Food Fair and Multicultural Books Display**



Hello All, I had mentioned the possibility of bringing in guest speakers as an event. I was thinking if we set our hypothetical project within Knoxville we could talk about the possibility of getting in touch with some cultural student associations on campus and see if some of the members would be interested in doing a presentation for the students. I thought this might be a good idea because it would probably be relatively cheap (we might pay for travel expenses and a meal perhaps).

Perhaps we could even ask the students to bring in one of their favorite childhood books that represents their culture and discuss it with a group of students, or maybe even a book that they feel is stereotypical of their culture and explain to children why the images/representations in the book are hurtful to them culturally.

A link that lists several of the international/diversity organizations on campus is below:

http://www.utk.edu/diversity/

I was also looking at the Eastern Band of Cherokee's website and found some craftspeople that we might invite as guests as well (though they would probably cost more.) The weblink is below:

http://www.cherokee-nc.com/artists-detail.php?page=116&prg=4

I think bringing in the special guests could also count as a way of sustaining interest.

Darsi

For the upper elementary kids we can also organize book clubs (or just one book club) in which the students read and discuss a multicultural chapter book.

Rachel

On the right hand side of this page, there are links to descriptions of different facets of a Multicutural Reading Bee. Just another underlying activity to think about.

https://umdrive.memphis.edu/jcscott/www/aari/index.html

Rachel

Ideas for different activities: http://wilderdom.com/games/MulticulturalExperientialActivities.html

Rachel