I wonder if Pasqualin felt pressure from school or family expectations when learning to read/write, since he hints at challenges.
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I really like how Pasqualin connects personal experience with a larger idea of literacy. It makes the essay feel relatable rather than academic.
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- Sep 2025
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“The process of storymaking leads us along our inner path, to find the places where stories live. There are many ways to begin and no one way works for everyone every time. What is always required is acceptance—of ourselves and our stories” (p. 16).
I highlighted this because it emphasizes that storytelling is personal and unique to each person. It’s important since it reminds us that acceptance of ourselves and our stories is necessary for authentic expression.”
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Learning logs kept throughout a storytelling unit allow both teacher and students to write about the thinking that goes into choosing a story, mapping its scenes, coming to know its characters, deciding on detail to include or exclude.
I highlighted this because it shows how learning logs make the process of storytelling more thoughtful and intentional. It’s important since both teachers and students can reflect on choices and better understand how stories are built.”
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“This shortchanging of the story has deep and lasting consequences. It deprives our students of developing critical key writing skills, it weakens their agency, and it silences their voices” (p. xii)
“This shortchanging of the story has deep and lasting consequences. It deprives our students of developing critical key writing skills, it weakens their agency, and it silences their voices” (p. xii).
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One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, or we are also living the stories we planted—knowingly or unknowingly—in ourselves. We live stories that either give our lives meaning or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives”
I highlighted this because it shows how much influence the stories we carry have on our lives. It’s important because it suggests that changing those stories could also change how we experience life.”
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When telling stories, there are questions to consider. As educators, it is important to ask our students about how a story operates. In Storytelling for Social Justice: Connecting Narrative and the Arts in Antiracist Teaching, Bell (2010) suggests we ask listeners of the stories: What stories are erased, trivialized, or concealed by the dominant story? How does this happen? What kinds of stories can support our ability to speak out and act where instances of racism occur?
These questions are important because they encourage us to think critically about which stories are heard and which are left out. They help us recognize how dominant stories shape understanding, and they open space for other perspectives that can lead to awareness and action.
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