The Big Easy: Literary New Orleans and Intangible Heritage

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 11.04.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale for Unit
  3. Context and Relevance
  4. Objectives
  5. Unit Readings
  6. Classroom Strategies
  7. Sample Daily Lessons
  8. Assessment
  9. Appendix
  10. Annotated Bibliography (organized by sections referenced above)
  11. End Notes

Mind the Gap: Planting the Seeds of Cultural Awareness

Molly A. Myers

Published September 2011

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End Notes

  1. This quote is an internet favorite and various sources are claimed. I have known it for many years as a Talmudic quote but other sources credit Anais Nin.
  2. Deborah Tannen. You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversations. New York: Ballantine Books, 1991, p. 16.
  3. Viktor E. Frankl. Man's search for meaning: an introduction to logotherapy. 3rd ed New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984, p.
  4. H. Chad Lane. Metacognition and the Development of Cultural Competence. Workshop on Metacognition and SRL. AIED 2007 http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/iroll/aied07-metacognition/Metacognition%20and%20SRL%3A%20Program%20and%20Proceedings.html (Accessed on July 16, 2011), p. 1.
  5. Harm J. Blij, Erin Hogan Fouberg, Charles Fuller, and Alexander B. Murphy. Human geography: people, place, and culture.. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2010, p. 112.
  6. Margot Stern Strom and William S. Parsons. Facing history and ourselves: holocaust and human behavior. Watertown, Mass. (51 Spring St., Watertown 02172): Intentional Educations, Inc., 1982. pp. 2-7.
  7. Linda Wallace. "What tints your cultural lens on racial issues?" Christian Science Monitor. September 16, 2005
  8. Lynnika Butler. "Living on Tokyo Time." Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition. Longman: New York, p. 13
  9. Andrei Codrescu. "The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans" New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City. Algonquin: Chapel Hill, NC, p. 483 (Kindle version)
  10. Quoted in Harm J. Blij, Erin Hogan Fouberg, Charles Fuller, and Alexander B. Murphy. Human geography: people, place, and culture.. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2010, p. 195.
  11. Strom, p. 12.
  12. Dave Eggers. Zeitoun. New York: Vintage Books, 2009, p. 212.
  13. "Teaching Strategies" Facing History and Ourselves http://www.facinghistory.org/resources (Accessed July 18, 2011)
  14. The Second City. "Training Center - Chicago - Improvisation for Creative Pedagogy - The Second City - 50 Years of Funny ." The Second City. http://www.secondcity.com/training/chicago/coursecatalog/112/ (accessed August 5, 2011).
  15. "Teaching Strategies" Facing History and Ourselves http://www.facinghistory.org/resources (Accessed July 18, 2011)
  16. NCSS. National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies: A Framework for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment. NCSS 2010
  17. National Geographic Society. "Standard Six: How Culture and Experience Influence People's Perceptions of Places and Regions." National Geography Standards. Washington D.C. 1994 http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/standards/06/index.html (Accessed August 2, 2011)

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