This word “healing” has been used multiple times and I cherish and am humbled by that word. In talking to adults who were able to review the book in advance, I’ve heard that this book was a healing book for them. I wrote this book specifically for the person you’re describing. JT-B: I’d say: READ MY BOOK! Run out and buy it NOW! I’m joking, but then again… I’m not.
TFB: If you were speaking directly to someone right know who had suffered any kind of microagression or traumatic experience regarding their name-or anything specific to their cultural identity-what would you want to say to them? I also think this is a book that could launch a school year practice of celebrating and learning about identity and diversity.
I think reading this book aloud could be used to underscore that commitment and to also have discussions about how to ensure everyone feels like their identities are validated in the classroom. I say this as a former classroom teacher there are multiple ways to take attendance without doing the embarrassing first-day-of-school roll call. Don’t make your first interaction with a student be you loudly taking attendance if that means loudly saying their name wrong. And then, they need to do the work to get their names right and to not embarrass them. Have they made jokes about certain kinds of names? I think they need to make a commitment to respecting and saying the names of their new students correctly, and they need to state this explicitly to students from the very first day of school.
I feel first that teachers themselves may want to read and sit with Your Name is a Song and reflect on how they have treated students with names they found hard to pronounce in the past. This is especially important in US classrooms that are taught predominantly by white teachers while the children in those classrooms are increasingly populated by Black children and children of color. JT-B: For the same reasons I just stated: because it can empower and create empathy.
Send us feedback.TFB: Why is YNIAS an important book to use in classroom settings? Do you have any professional advice for educators on how they could or should use it with their students? These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'folk song.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 18 Jan. 20 folk song is associated with Irish artists, like The Dubliners, and U2. 2021 Evans rose to viral fame earlier this month after posting TikTok videos performing traditional sea shanties, which are a type of folk song originally sung by sailors on large merchant ships. 2021 Russia’s wish to use a patriotic Soviet-era folk song as a replacement anthem for the Tokyo Olympics was rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Geneva in further fallout from a years-long doping scandal.ī, 12 Mar. 2021 Russia's wish to use a patriotic Soviet-era folk song as a replacement anthem for the Tokyo Olympics was rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Friday in further fallout from a years-long doping scandal.
2020 The setting for the recording of the song befits the folk song, with its campfire harmonies and romantic sway.Īlthea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. Tammy Kim, The New York Review of Books, 17 Dec. 2021 Song of Arirang takes its title from the most popular folk song in Korea-one that predates division by hundreds of years and remains a unifying cultural artifact.Į. 2021 As an encore, Chen offered his own rendition of Waltzing Matilda - the familiar Australian folk song - that alternated between somber nostalgia and lighthearted cheer. Recent Examples on the Web Zoe Sarnak with traditional Mexican folk song arrangements and additional score by George Sáenz.įrank Rizzo, Variety, 1 Oct.