Full Session class
11:00am - 1:30pm MTWR (MT in class, WR online hybrid)
https://kansasdiscovery.org/serious-fun-mondays/
A HICEP
Lit and Film: Food Insecurity
How do books help children? How does a partnership
Qualify for Poverty Studies Minor elective
Qualify for Community Service WTE hours
IS designation?
This HICEP is a collaboration with Kansas Children's Discovery Center's Serious Fun Mondays in Chesney Park. On Mondays, students will take on roles to help families with children: librarian (to handle the books), readers (to read to the children so parents / guardians can enjoy time and lunch), and greeters. Students will see themselves as collaborators and active participants in community, to see how food insecurity can affect anyone. On Tuesdays, students will view and discuss a film centered on food insecurity in America. Wednesdays and Thursdays are online days, with time spent on writing, research, and reflection.
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https://acfb.org/reading-and-film-lists
A Place at the Table -
Filmmakers explore the issue of hunger in the United States through
people struggling with food insecurity. The film explains the serious
implications hunger poses to America, but also presents hunger as a
solvable problem.
Soul Food Junkies –
“Filmmaker Byron Hurt looks at the past and future of soul food -- from
its roots in Western Africa, to its incarnation in the American South,
to its contribution to modern health crises in communities of color.
Soul Food Junkies also looks at the socioeconomics of the modern
American diet, and how the food industry profits from making calories
cheap, but healthy options expensive and hard to find.” (source:
ShopPBS.org)
Frontline: Poor Kids –
Documentary examining poverty through the eyes of children. Poor Kids
follows three families dealing with the aftermath of the Great Recession
highlighting the intersection of hunger and poverty.
The Garden –
Award winning documentary chronicling the fight to save a community
garden in South Central Los Angeles. Years of hard work and community
building are threatened when the property is sold to a developer.
Nominated for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
30 Days -
Created by Morgan Spurlock, 30 Days is the innovative TV show that
dares the viewer to take a walk in someone else’s shoes. In the season
opener, Spurlock and his fiancé try to make ends meet by working
minimum-wage jobs. (We recommend parental guidance for children under
13).
Hidden in America -
A father of two is downsized out of his job. He struggles to support
his children alone in a new city. Rated for All. A Citadel/As Is
Production in association with The End Hunger Network. (We recommend
parental guidance for children under 13).
Meaning of Food -
A wonderful documentary that explores all the different ways that food
creates meaning in our lives. Presented by PBS. Not Rated.
Brown, Marcia. Stone Soup. 1947. Based on
an old French tale, this story is about three hungry soldiers who
outwit the inhabitants of a village into sharing their food.
Bunting, Eve. Fly Away Home.
1991. A story about a boy and his father who live in a busy airport.
Both illustrator and author focus on giving the child’s-eye view of the
problem, and their skill makes this a first-rate picture book.
Cooper, Melrose. Gettin’ Through Thursday. 1998. A young boy in a family that is just making it paycheck-to-paycheck feels the richness of family love.
De Costa Nunez, Ralph. Our Wish.
Published by Institute for Children and Poverty, Inc. The workbook can
stand by itself as a teaching tool for small children. This book can be
ordered from Homes for the Homeless (212) 529- 5252. This is a story
about a family of rabbits that lose their home. They go to an animal
shelter and with help they find another home in an orchard.
DiSalvo-Ryan, DyAnne. Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen.
1991. The story of a young boy’s introduction to work in a community
kitchen. He learns from his Uncle Willie about how to help and support
those living in poverty in his community.
Hesse, Karen. Spuds.
2008. Ma is working late shifts but there doesn't ever seem to be
enough to eat. So one frosty night, Jack and Maybelle put little Eddie
in a wagon with some empty sacks and sneak into a farmer's field to
liberate the potatoes that are just lying there.
McBrier, Page and Lohstoeter, Lori. Beatrice’s Goat.
Published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. Page McBrier and Lori
Lohstoeter beautifully recount this true story about how one child,
given the right tools, is able to lift her family out of poverty. (2% of
publisher’s proceeds will be donated to Heifer Project International).
McGovern, Ann. The Lady in the Box.
1997. This is the story of two children who help and befriend a
homeless woman who lives in a box on their street. It is a wonderful
book to introduce children to the concepts of service and compassion. It
is also a wonderful tool to address some of the myths that prevail
about who is homeless and why we have homelessness in this country.
Noble, Trinka Hakes. The Orange Shoes. 2007.
Delly Porter enjoys the feel of soft dirt beneath her feet as she walks
to and from school, but after a classmate makes her feel ashamed of
having no shoes she learns that her parents and others, too, see value
in things that do not cost money.
Nunez, Ralph Costa, and Schrager, Willow. Cooper’s Tale.
Published by Institute for Children and Poverty, Inc. When two fat cats
take over the cheese shop, Cooper the pink mouse suddenly finds himself
homeless. The friendship he develops with three homeless children
changes all of their lives in ways they never expected.
Rosen, Michael J. The Greatest Table.
Published by Harcourt Brace and Company. This is a book that unfolds
into a 12-foot long accordion book, showing the various ways people eat
together and the variety of foods people eat. This book lends itself to a
number of art projects for children. This book is out of print but does
have limited availability through some book stores and Amazon.com.
Thank you so much!
Hello Kris and Rick,
I
hope your summer is going well! I am teaching a first five-week online
course, so I spend a lot of the day on the computer. This brings me to
an idea for next summer.
I
have been discussing a possible HICEP and wonder if it could qualify
for any designation as a Poverty Studies Minor elective, Community
Service WTE hours, an IS designation (I'm not sure which designation I
could use), and anything you see would fit.
The course would be listed as EN192 / 392 Lit and Film: Food Insecurity. This planned HICEP is a collaboration with Kansas Children's Discovery Center's
Serious Fun Mondays in Chesney Park. On Mondays, students will take on
roles to help families with children: librarian (to handle the books),
readers (to read to the children so parents / guardians can enjoy time
and lunch), and greeters. Students will see themselves as collaborators
and active participants in community, to see how food insecurity can
affect anyone. On Tuesdays, students will view and discuss a film
centered on food insecurity in America. Wednesdays and Thursdays are
online days, with time spent on writing, research, and reflection.
More about Serious Fun Mondays: https://kansasdiscovery.org/serious-fun-mondays/
What
are your thoughts? As the request for possible summer teaching comes so
soon, I thought I would get this conversation going.
