Eyes That Kiss in the Corners

Illustrator: Dung Ho

Blurb from Amazon

A young Asian girl notices that her eyes look different from her peers. They have big, round eyes and long lashes. She realizes that her eyes are like her mother’s, her grandmother's, and her little sister's. They have eyes that kiss in the corners and glow like warm tea, crinkle into crescent moons, and are filled with stories of the past and hope for the future.

Drawing from the strength of these powerful women in her life, she recognizes her own beauty and discovers a path to self-love and empowerment. This powerful, poetic picture book will resonate with readers of all ages.

Identities

How will your teaching help students to learn something about themselves and/or others?

Students will

see beauty in all different shapes and sizes of eyes
admire the shape of their own eyes
learn how their eyes reflect their cultural background

Skills

What skills and content learning are you teaching?

Students will

to make inferences using stated and implied ideas from the texts as evidence
to ask questions for clarification
to engage in relevant dialogue through an exchange of ideas
to restate important details of a narrative
to connect ideas to other multicultural texts

Intellect

What will students become smarter about?

Students will become smarter about

having a positive self-image
cultural stories and histories
various family formations
using metaphors and similes
positive representation of all cultures

Criticality

How will you engage your thinking about power, equity, anti-oppression in the text, in society, and in the world?

We will

engage in conversation about the necessity for a book about eyes that kiss in the corner
discuss dominant culture and and its effect on racialized groups
look at literature for depictions of racialized groups
identity cultural authenticity and cultural appropriation

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