Meier-"Why Can't She Remeber That?"

The article, "Why Can't She Remember That?" by Meier connects to the beginning of the TED talk, "The Danger Of A Single Story" by Chimamanda Adichie. (The following is the link for the TED talk) https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story?language=en. They connect because in the article, as well as in the TED talk, Meir and Chimamanda discuss how important it is to be able to relate to a story. Chimamanda would always read stories as an African American little girl and the stories would never be relatable. The stories would be of little white girls with blonde pony tails who drank ginger beer and talked about the weather. Meanwhile, where Chimamanda was from, the little girls were black with curly black hair that was hard to fit into pony tails and they did not know what ginger beer was and did not find it important to talk about the weather. So because Chimamanda could not relate to the books she was not able to grow, use her imagination, communicate, and learn life lessons through the books. Maybe if the books had characters that fit Chimamanda she would have been able to connect and learn through the stories. Meier addresses the same problem. She discusses how books can be a great lesson and teaching tool but only if they can be applied. The first, most important rule about teaching using books is making sure the characters are connectable to the students. When the students feel like they are a character in the book they become engaged. Books are a great resource to teach children about life including topics on; relationships, adventure, education, decisions. Ultimately, it all starts with the student being able to relate and connect with the book and characters. Then they will be comfortable, trustworthy, and engaged.
This is a picture of Chimamanda Adichie.
I would like to bring up in class how Adichie's point of view connects with our class.