Nicholas Allen | April 15, 2020
Through their ongoing collaboration across world areas, CLASP is able to provide teachers and librarians recommendations for diverse books across world areas for the classroom and access to award-winning authors of children’s and young adult literature. The Américas Award will sponsor the webinar on May 11 featuring author Francie Latour and her work, “Auntie Luce’s Talking Paintings” a 2019 Américas Honor Book.
Diverse Books for the K-12 Classroom
February – June 2020 – All webinars are 6 PM CST
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Once a month, the World Area Book Awards (Américas Award, Africana Book Award, Freeman Book Award, Middle East Book Award, and the South Asia Book Award) will sponsor a 60-minute webinar on a book recognized by one of the awards. Each webinar features a presentation by an award-winning author with discussion on how to incorporate multicultural literature into the classroom. Please read along with us this spring as we explore the world through these award-winning books. We encourage all readers to join in on the conversations each month and ask the author your own questions live.
Be sure to join the conversation with our webinar hashtag #2020ReadingAcrossCultures. Visit www.internationalizingsocialstudies.blog for more information and to register for free. All webinars are archived and available on the same website if you miss it live.
LATIN AMERICA – MAY 11, 2020 – Américas Award
“Auntie Luce‘s Talking Paintings” by Francie Latour
ASIA – JUNE 23, 2020 – Freeman Book Award
“Girl of the Southern Sea” by Michelle Kadarusman
All sessions are free and open to the public. Register by visiting internationalizingsocialstudies.org. Sponsored by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs, the South Asia National Outreach Consortium, the Middle East Outreach Council, the African Studies Outreach Council, and The National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. Additional sponsorship is provided by Florida International University, Stanford University, The Ohio State University, UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Florida, University of New Mexico, University of Texas at Austin, University of Utah, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Tulane University and Vanderbilt University.