Poetry: "All the World"

The book I chose is called "All the World" by Liz Garton Scanlon and Illustrated by Marla Frazee. 

"All the World" takes the reader on a beautiful journey of the vast amounts of sounds, sights, smells, tastes and touches of the world, representing the variety of cultural customs and norms that make up our world. 

This book is a poem that includes content that is both interesting and understandable. Intended readers are able to understand the meaning of the book because author Liz Garton Scanlon uses innovative and careful word choice and rhymes that allows the reader to create the senses smell, feel, hear, touch and sights of the world. The repetition of the words "All the world..." every other page emphasis on the significance of togetherness and similarity of each aspect of the world. In addition, the illustrations are not only beautiful drawings, but they also allow the reader to truly visualize the content that is on each page.

According to the Six Elements of Social Justice Curriculum, the themes covered in this book include respect for others, where student's learn about other student's culture norms and customs around the world and self-love and knowledge, where student's can find themselves, their culture, and their family's in this book. 

This book would be of wonderful use during the possible topic of "All about me", where student's can learn about themselves, their culture, and their history as well as their classmates'. This book would be a good way to introduce this topic and show students that even though we each have our own cultural norms and customs, we also have similarities with one another and that is pretty amazing. I think by reading this book and then being able to analyze each sense that is represented through different cultures will allow students to find themselves, learn about their classmates, and find similarities and differences between one another. An activity to follow this book and analyzation could be to each create their own books about themselves and figure out where their cultures overlap or differ with their classmates. 

~ Samantha Kiser ~