Week 10-Seedfolks

Reading Seedfolks this week was really enjoyable, but very interesting when you think about using this title in the classroom.  In working on my multigenre research paper I have been focused on changing pieces of writing to different genres based on the use of the information.  This book made me think about children writing from different perspectives.  This is not something that had been very prevalent in history education.  Normally the information disseminated to our students is from the American perspective when there are always other people involved.  Their views can be very different and I think that this is an important lesson for children.  The book Baseball Saved Us is a wonderful story Ken Mochiszuiki is a story of a boy and his father in a Japanese internment camp in California during World War II.  The perspective of a young child in this very difficult situation is very touching.  Although there are some pieces of literature out there like this one, they are not very prevalent.  It would be cool for the creation of documents from different perspectives to be an invitation!