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By bringing these books and stories to my classroom, I hope to educate and connect with the students about the challenges refugees and immigrants face. These stories may be similar to things that they themselves or their families have experienced, or maybe to a friend’s experience. Learning about others is the first step to developing empathy, something we need more of throughout all aspects of our lives. It is difficult to develop empathy with a complete lack of understanding of what other people have experienced. In creating a positive classroom environment of acceptance and promoting empathy, the students will have a place to voice concerns and receive support. It will also help the students whose families have not had these experiences to relate to other students and people they will meet throughout their lives. The students will hopefully connect with the stories in some way, which can also be a motivating factor in student achievement. Many of the students do not connect to the traditional, school provided literature because it does not seem relatable to their lives. Their experiences have been so different than the lives presented in the stories that they are not motivated to read, which affects not only their reading development, but their writing development as well.

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By bringing these books and stories to my classroom, I hope to educate and connect with the students about the challenges refugees and immigrants face. These stories may be similar to things that they themselves or their families have experienced, or maybe to a friend’s experience. Learning about others is the first step to developing empathy, something we need more of throughout all aspects of our lives. It is difficult to develop empathy with a complete lack of understanding of what other people have experienced. In creating a positive classroom environment of acceptance and promoting empathy, the students will have a place to voice concerns and receive support. It will also help the students whose families have not had these experiences to relate to other students and people they will meet throughout their lives. The students will hopefully connect with the stories in some way, which can also be a motivating factor in student achievement. Many of the students do not connect to the traditional, school provided literature because it does not seem relatable to their lives. Their experiences have been so different than the lives presented in the stories that they are not motivated to read, which affects not only their reading development, but their writing development as well.

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