Changing the English Curriculum and Cannon

Hello!

My name is Cole Fitzgerald and I am an English Secondary education major. For this project, I wanted to tackle issues with the English curriculum and the lack of diversity in the books being taught. My goal is to find ideas that can help me in my future classroom and help others who want to change their curriculum. I would like to diversify the books in the curriculum the most. What this means is to diversify the authors that are taught in school. I believe we should move away from the current canon of books which is mostly straight, white, male authors, and move on to authors who offer different backgrounds such as different sexualities and different ethnicities. I hope my project is enlightening and helpful for everyone in the education system!