LibGuides: Summer Reading 2021: BCS Extra-Credit Summer Assignments

Good Reads

This extra-credit assignment is required for high school students, but is extra-credit for middle school students!

Create an account on Goodreads using your BCS email.
Add five books you've read, either this summer or in the past.
Follow the BNS/BCS Library on Goodreads!

Stamped

Listen to STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO RACIST IDEAS IN AMERICA by Ibram Kendi and write a review on Goodreads.

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Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
SOME AMERICANS cling desperately to the myth that we are living in a post-racial society, that the election of the first Black president spelled the doom of racism. In fact, racist thought is alive and well in America - more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, if we have any hope of grappling with this stark reality, we must first understand how racist ideas were developed, disseminated, and enshrined in American society.

1619

The 1619 Project is an ongoing project developed by The New York Times Magazine in 2019 with the goal of re-examining the legacy of slavery in the United States and timed for the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans in Virginia.

Explore the New York Times 1619 Project here and listen to the 1619 podcast here.

Podcasts

Jumbies

Jumbies Field Guide PDF

Antiracist Picture Book Suggestions -- For All Ages!

All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold
Follow a group of children through a day in their school, where everyone is welcomed with open arms.
IntersectionAllies by Chelsea Johnson, et. al.
"A celebration of solidarity, allyship, and community...A welcoming resource for conversations about equality and social justice that shows readers how identities are made up of myriad influences."
Not My Idea by Anastasia Higginbotham
"An honest explanation about how power and privilege factor into the lives of white children, at the expense of other groups, and how they can help seek justice."
Separate Is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh
"Tonatiuh offers an illuminating account of a family’s hard-fought legal battle to desegregate California schools in the years before Brown v. Board of Education."
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
The Undefeated, this poem is a love letter to black life in the United States. It highlights the unspeakable trauma of slavery, the faith and fire of the civil rights movement, and the grit, passion, and perseverance of some of the world's greatest heroes.

New York Times

Enter the 11th Annual New York Times Summer Reading Contest

Everything you need to know about how to enter, you can find HERE. Submit your entry to the NYT and send a copy to amandac@bcs448.org in the Library. We will choose our own winners at the end of the summer.

Summer Reading 2021: BCS Extra-Credit Summer Assignments