Declassifying Disney: Jane and Esmeralda's Acorn Adventure

Freckles39--
I enjoyed having the paper copy to read --with all that glitter on the acorn!-- and will leave it in the box outside my office tomorrow morning, so you can retrieve it. I like very much your notion that the sort of ideas we have been talking about in class need to be introduced to young children, "targeting the age group with the most hope for change." This would certainly make college teaching easier, not to have to un-do all that is learned before hand ;)

Where I'd nudge you to do more thinking/re-framing/re-drawing is in the concrete particularity of this story, which is essentially about different people learning to work together; two brains are better than one, this story says .... and/but is there a way to focus it more particularly on the idea you describe in your introduction: street smarts vs. academic education? And/or more on the differences that people who are positioned differently, class-wise, might bring to a collaborative endeavor? How is class visible to children? When do they begin to make discriminations around that axis? (What are your own earliest memories in this regard, and how might you re-tell such a story?)