Happy Native American Heritage Month!

11/16/2016

In honor of our country’s first citizens, the students and I have been learning and reading about the Lummi, Crow, and Passamaquody tribes. The students really respond to the folktales from these different cultures, and it also provides an excellent opportunity to talk about the different geographical regions of our country. Also, we’ve heard snippets of each tribe’s language.

Our reading list: Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest by Gerald McDermott, Brave Wolf and Thunderbird by Joe Medicine Crow, and Thanks to the Animals by Allen Sockabasin.

Interested in reading more Native American folktales and stories? I highly recommend Gerald McDermott’s other books, which are a wonderful blend of text and images. Sherman Alexie, winner of the National Book Award, recently published a picture book called Thunder Boy Jr. It’s a great book about a young Indian boy proclaiming his own identity.

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Mrs. Burton

From the moment I learned to read, I was hooked. Books are magical, wondrous, and available to us all. They are the great equalizer, enlightener, and illuminator, and it’s my goal to spark that same love in all of my students.

After graduating with a BA in English from Georgetown University (Hoya Saxa!), I moved to New York where I worked as a magazine editor for three years. After a stint in Chicago as a book editor, my husband and I moved back to DC. I took a job as an editor at Reading Is Fundamental and my life was changed! I wrote and edited numerous pieces about the importance of early childhood literacy, and the more I researched and wrote about the issue, the more I felt that I needed to be a part of things at the ground level. So I went to the University of Maryland and got my MLS (Master of Library Science). For four years, I was the librarian at Eagle Academy PCS, and it is such a thrill to see that some of my former Eagle students are now at Ludlow-Taylor!

I live in Takoma Park, MD, with my husband, daughter (9), and son (5).

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