Since January, students and I explored Reynold’s and Kendi’s remixed version of Stamped . If you told me in January that it would take two months to complete Stamped , I wouldn’t believe you. Of course, there were snow days and February break that impeded our time with the text, but even accounting for that, Stamped remained an exploration, one that exceeded my expectations each step of the way. As you make your way through the text, you might consider the following: Taking Your Time: Unlike other books like The Glass Menagerie or The House on Mango Street , Stamped required students to unpack their emotions and learn about the many diverse people in the text. I started to look at the Afterword of Stamped as my benchmark. At the end of the text when Reynolds addresses the readers about Angela Davis, James Baldwin and W.E.B DuBois, what will my students think at that moment? I didn’t want students simply to see a list of names. I want those names to mean something. The end result? Lots