Native Author’s Book Builds Empathy and Knowledge for 4th Graders
Help me give my students an incredible novel to accompany our unit on local Northwest Tribes for the Since Time Immemorial curriculum.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Carly's classroom raised $476
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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Project
I’m asking for a class set of Christine Day’s incredible novel “I Can Make this Promise” to read aloud with our 4th graders. Christine Day is a local Native author and the book is set in our own community, which is exciting for our students to finally read a book set in our city . But the main purpose of reading this book together is to build empathy and a contemporary view on Native people and history to accompany our Since Time Immemorial state tribal curriculum. There is nothing like connecting to a main character’s journey (a girl their age searching for her Native roots) to build connection, empathy, and context for historical events that affect Native people to this day. When I read this last year to my students we laughed , cried, and had a transformative experience together we will never forget. I hope to recreate this powerful experience with my new 4th graders at my new school. It is even more powerful when they all have a copy of the book in their hands to read along and practice reading a book at grade level and discussing and writing about profound topics that connect to social and ethnic studies as well as critical 4th grade standards. I was shocked at what I didn’t know about the history of adoption with Native children and learned important history and current events from this book which has helped me be a better educator and citizen. This book gives students real life examples of how the history we are learning impacts kids like them today.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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