Please Don't Say An X Word

Artfully designed in black and white using abstracted portions of enlarged letterforms, Please Don’t Say An X Word offers a jumping off point for that all-important discussion about verbal abuse and bullying with upper elementary and middle school students. But first, what is an x word? In math, “x” stands for a missing quantity, as in the equation 2(x) = 4, where x equals 2. And so it is in this book, where “x words” stand for all the “bad, angry, hurtful words” we use to denigrate others ...