create brave

Public

Give out free wi-fi as a free mobile stuff

advertise: free wifi in 10 blocks

inside space: awesome wifi here!

put comfy seating by the outlets where folks plug in

For Staff:

90s - libraries paid for desk phone, why aren’t they paying for our mobile usage now?

Give staff secured wifi that isn't shared with the public 

Miracle's Boys

March

You Don't know me

Yummy

Malcom X

Bronx Masquerade

Non-fiction: Trayvon Martin - President Obama, and Cornel West's responses to the incident

Have kids explore diversity in collection.  Did this in a middle school in MN, and found the only contemporary fiction with an African American male was Monster.  !!!

What does it mean to be cool?

What does it mean to have power?

What are some assumptions people have about you?

What are some assumptions 

Then show this image:

  They deconstruct it: 

What does this say about being cool? Power?

Naked to waist (slavery), etc..

Then they show this: 

And then asks same questions.  What does this say about cool? Power?

Which do you see more often in media? (50 cent)  

Build on the figurative language that is found in the everyday life of African American youth (Hale, 2001)

Incorporate storytelling, spoken word, poetry, reader’s theater, and song into library programs (Hale 2001)

Utilize literature circules and book discussion formats that allow students to respond orally to texts (Lazer et al 2012)

Engage students in retelling stories and poems (Lazer et al, 2012)

Ideas: (Read Brave ideas…?)

Lunch time book club 

young men only, with male mentors

could read or listen to audio

book discussions focused on big questions

virtual author visit as culminating activity (Skype)

After school book club

students each read 2 books

students recorded their responses to each book suing an mp3 player

responses were guided by “big” questions

Spirituality: approaching life as essentially vitalistic and condign one’s life as though supreme forces govern it.

Affect: placing a premium on emotions/feelings

Harmony: viewing one’s fate as being interrelated with other elements of life

Oral Tradition: emphasizing oral and aural modes of communication and cultivating oral virtuosity

Social perspective of time: an orientation of time as passing through a social space

Expressive Individualism: the cultivation of a distinct personality and proclivity for spontaneous, genuine personal expression

Verve: preferring intense stimulation, variability, and action that is energetic, alive, and colorful

Communalism: a commitment to social connectedness being sensitive to interdependence of people and committing to social connectedness over individual privileges

Movement: interweaving of the ideas of rhythm and percussiveness often associated with music and dance into daily life.