Connecting Students to Culturally Relevant Texts Article

The one quote that really struck me as important to students to is:
"Another important reason for using culturally relevant texts is that they help students understand who they are."

The reason I found this very important is because as an adolescent, it is very important to find out who you are. This is the prime time when students are trying to figure out just that like who they should hang out with and what they like best. This is the time when adolescents have many dreams of what they might want to do when they grow up. My dream as an adolescent was to become a famous soccer star and start that out by playing at the University of North Carolina. Even though I'm not doing that I still had a dream to do so. But all of those dreams they do have lead up to what they will eventually be doing. Also, having different cultured books in the classroom also helps other students learn about the different students in their own classroom. This helps with discrimination and other subjects like that. This one sentence was very strong to me because every student needs to eventually figure out who they are to themselves.