First Impressions

This past Wednesday in class we really started to explore different types of diverse literature and what really made a piece of literature diverse. The class split up into groups and each got a different book to read. My group got an abc book that featured homosexual parents. When I first thought about diverse literature I thought of books about minority groups only based on race, religion, or culture. I never really thought much about gay and lesbian literature being diverse, but being introduced to this book I realized it fit in perfectly to diverse literature. I thought this specific alaphabet book took an interesting way to include diversity in a subtle way. Through out the book it never really addressed that the family units were gay and lesbian, but just had pictures and mentioned things such as my dads or my moms. This really opened my eyes to my view on diverse literature. Also there was another group who had a book on an Amish family, another group of people that have slipped my mind in the field of diversity. This class really broadened my view on diverse literature to more than just what I am used to as being considered as diverse!