This poster is based on the Book-Head-Heart framework that Kylene Beers and Robert Probst developed and published in their book Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters.

As I’m student teaching at a Middle School with multilingual learners who speak Spanish or Portuguese natively I included translations for them. Here are some examples of how a student could use this framework. The first two examples are from Sandra Cisneros’s novel The House on Mango Street:

Here is an example from Jaqueline Woodson’s poetic memoir Brown Girl Dreaming:

Here are some more examples from Brown Girl Dreaming:

♥️ Ruby Bridges and James Baldwin are listed on p4. This seems to be a list of her heroes which makes my think about the list I put in my own memoir: Joan of Arc, Mary Dyer, Alice Paul, Felicia Elizondo, Marsha Johnson, and Sylvia Rivera. As she relates to her list from what I see as a black advocacy perspective I relate to my list from a transgender feminist perspective.

🧑‍🎓This is a book that’s clearly written using her “own voice” (p4).

♥️I didn’t realize Ruby Bridges was only 6 when she tried to attend school on the heels of desegregation (p6).

📘She wrote a whole poem about how her father would have named her Jack if it weren’t for her mother and aunt interfering (p7). What does she think of the name? It’s clear how she was named was important but was it because of the outcome or the process?