Why Literature Matters

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 16.02.09

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Background
  3. Rationale
  4. Why Culturally Relevant Literature
  5. Identity and Selfhood
  6. Otherness in the Context of American Identity
  7. Issues of Identity in Catfish and Mandala 
  8. Strategies and Activities
  9. Appendix A: Teacher Resources
  10. Appendix B: Teacher Resources
  11. Appendix C: Teacher Resources
  12. Appendix D: Teacher Resources
  13. Appendix E: Teacher Resources
  14. Appendix F: Teacher Resources
  15. Appendix G: Implementing Common Core State Standards
  16. Bibliography
  17. Notes

Who Am I?: Culturally Relevant Text and American Identity

Mark Holston

Published September 2016

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Notes

  1. School Profile,” Mount Pleasant High School, Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Report 2013-2014
  2. Ibid.
  3. Christina Vischer Burns’ Why Literature?: The Value of Literary Reading and What It Means for Teaching, 12
  4. Carol Jago, With Rigor for All, 7
  5. Iliana Alanis, “Developing Literacy through Culturally Relevant Texts”, 30.
  6. Christina Vischer Burns’ Why Literature, 15.
  7. Gloria Ladson-Billings “But That’s Good Teaching! The Case for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy” 162.
  8. Jean S. Phinney “Ethnic Identity: Developmental and Contextual Perspectives”, 7.
  9. Ibid,
  10. Christina Vischer Burns Why Literature?,19.
  11. Johnathan Culler “What is Literature Now?”,178.
  12. Ibid
  13. Gloria Ladson-Billings “But That’s Just Good Teaching!,” 161.
  14. Cristina Vischer Bruns Why Literature?, 28-29.
  15. Iliana Alanis “Developing Literacy through Culturally Relevant Texts,” 32.
  16. Andrew Pham Catfish and Mandala, 125.
  17. Andrew Pham Catfish and Mandala, 7.
  18. Farah Qureshi “School Climates, Suicide and Gay and Lesbian Students, 2.

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