Introduction

I am a senior at Michigan State University majoring in Elementary Education and Language Arts. I am creating this blog for a class I am taking about diverse adolescent literature. I am very excited to be taking this class, as I love learning about other cultures different from my own. In my future classroom one of my main priorities will be to provide a comfortable and welcoming environment for my students. In order to provide this type of environment I strongly feel that I must educate myself and my students about other cultures. I think that learning about other cultures through literature is a great experience because the reader can empathize with the characters and hopefully have a better understanding of different view points. I am looking forward to this course and discovering how to find good literature that I can use in my future classroom and for my own personal benefit!