New Kid by Jerry Craft is a graphic novel about a kid named Jordan and how he is the new kid at a prestigious private school known where Jordan is one of the few kids of color. Jordan tells his story and incorporates his own drawings. The author wants me to know about how hard it is for students of color to fit in and be treated respectfully in a school where they are the minority. One thing that surprised me about this book is how realistic it was, I did not think that the author would be so real with the reader. The fact that students really do pay attention to how their name is pronounced confirmed my thinking. The author of this book thinks I know about how life at a prestigious private school is. One thing I learned about myself with this book is how much I connected with Jordan and being a minority student. This text helped me learn that others have gone through a lot of the same struggles I went through as a kid and still continue to face those same struggles now. This book has helped me be a better teacher to my students and be conscious and careful about what I say to them. From making these connections, I learned how much deeper I can reflect and go into a book. Using the BHH strategy helped me to further reflect on what I read and how it connected to me.
The objective of the BHH strategy is to help students actively think about the text instead of being passive readers. The BHH strategy can be used to help students pay closer attention to the author's words and reflect on them. The BHH strategy can be used with almost any book. In a classroom, teachers can give students a designated readers response notebook where they reflect and write their thoughts about a book. The goal is to help students understand that they can implement the BHH strategy with any text on any piece of paper. Students will need help at first with tons of modeling and practice in order to be able to use the BHH strategy independently with texts they choose.
During read alouds, I would model my thinking and show how I write my BHH reflections to demonstrate how it can be done. From there, my students and I can work on these reflections together to be able to gradually release them to practice the BHH strategy independently. During the gradual release, I can narrow down one or two specific questions that I want my students to focus on reflecting. I would also provide my students with time to share and discuss their reflections in order to learn from each other and deepen their thinking of a text. Again, my goal would be to eventually see my students be able to use the BHH strategy with texts independently.
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