Resources
Teacher Resources
Background Reading
Cole, Luella, and John J. B. Morgan. Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961.
Erikson, Erik H. Identity: Youth and Crisis. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1968.
Hammond, Zaretta & Yvette Jackson. Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, a SAGE Company, 2015.
Irwin, Judith L. Reading and the Middle School Student. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1998.
Kroger, Jane. Identity in Adolescence: The Balance Between Self and Other. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Marcia, J. E. “Development and Validation of the Ego-Identity Status.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 3, no 5 (1966): 551-558. doi:10.1037/h0023281
Nelson, Hilda Lindeman. Damaged Identities, Narrative Repair. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.
Thompson, Becky & Sangeeta Tyagi. Names We Call Home: Autobiography on Racial Identity. London: Routledge, 1996.
Names Reading List
Alvarez, Julia. “Names/ Nombres” from Beyond Expectations: Treasury of Literature. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1993. (Essay on how a Dominican immigrant experiences maligned names and the damage that does to identity)
How does the family react to the initial mispronunciation of their name by immigration? Describe the author’s reaction to her new names.
What is the significance of the Shakespeare quote about a rose?
What seems to be the author’s purpose in writing this piece?
Rau, Santha Rama “By Any Other Name” from Gifts of Passage: An Informal Autobiography. New York: Harper & Row, 1966. (Autobiographic sketch about her identity crises when her name is Anglicized by a teacher)
Why do you think the teacher changed her name from Santha to Cynthia?
In what other ways do you see Indian and British culture interacting in this essay?
Why does Santha become confused when asked her name?
Why does her sister leave school and never return and what does this say about her identity?
Tohe, Laura. “Our Tongues Slapped into Silence” from No Parole Today. Albuquerque, NM: West End Press, 1999. (Diné poem focuses on lack of access to Native languages and teacher’s mispronunciation of names)
What is ironic about the use of the “Dick and Jane” books in the poetry?
What can you infer is the reason the teacher used corporal punishment for students caught speaking in their native tongue?
Use words, phrases and evidence from the text to demonstrate that the poet has negative memories of her assimilation?
How are the cultural assumptions of another culture imposed and what similarities are there to “By Any Other Name”?
Speech Reading List
Anzaldua, Gloria. "How Not to Tame a Wild Tongue: Wanderwords in Theory." Wanderwords : Language Migration in American Literature. doi:10.5040/9781628927184.0007.
Baldwin, James. "If Black English isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?" The Black Scholar 27, no. 1 (1997): 5-6. doi:10.1080/00064246.1997.11430831. (persuasive essay)
Lyiscott, Jamila. “Three Ways to Speak English. Teen | TED Talk. Accessed July 26, 2017. https://www.ted.com/talks/jamila_lyiscott_3_ways_to_speak_english
Regan, Vera. “What your speaking style, like, says about you.” Teen | TEDxDublin. Accessed July 13, 2017. https://youtu.be/jAGgKE82034
Sedaris, David. “Go Carolina” excerpt from Me Talk Pretty One Day. London: Abacus, 2013. (lisp)
Sheinin, Dave and Krissah Thompson. “Redefining the Word” 2014 http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/11/09/the-n-word-an-entrenched-racial-slur-now-more-prevalent-than-ever/?utm_term=.37067b44a44f
Tan, Amy. “Mother Tongue” from The Threepenny Review. Berkeley, CA, 2001. http://theessayexperiencefall2013.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/files/2013/09/Mother-Tongue-by-Amy-Tan.pdf (essay on registers)
Widrich, Leo. “Which Words Matter The Most When You Talk” 4/4/13 https://www.fastcompany.com/3007821/which-words-matter-most-when-you-talk
Teenagers Reading List
Khalid. 8Teen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM-nqhPI7ho (Profanity! Song)
King, Ryan Caron. “What’s the Hardest Part of Being a Teen?” http://wnpr.org/post/what-s-hardest-part-about-being-teen
Martin, Michel. “Teenagers Are ‘Crazy’ But Expert Says Behavior is Vital to Development.” (cole n.d.)
http://www.npr.org/2014/01/28/267608451/teenagers-are-crazy-but-expert-says-behavior-is-vital-to-development
State Bar of California. “When you Turn 18.” http://www.calbar.ca.gov/Portals/0/documents/publications/Turn-18.pdf (superb resource that outlines the legal rights and responsibilities related to turning 18 including driving, renting, illegal substances and credit)
Vellekamp, Lily. Being a Teen | TED Talk | YouTube.com. June 03, 2016. Accessed August 04, 2017. https://youtu.be/L2iqczxkB-s. (A teenager speaks out about the hardships of being devalued and treated like a “kid” and how that brings on stress)
Willis, Judy, M.D. “What to Do About Your Teenager’s Eye-Roll” https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/radical-teaching/201305/what-do-about-your-teenager-s-eye-roll
Zhao, Emmeline. “Why Identity and Emotion Are Central to Motivating the Teen Brain.” 7/14
https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/12/10/why-identity-and-emotion-are-central-to-motivating-the-teen-brain/
Optional Student Resources
Alvarez, Julia. “Hair/Pelos” from Beyond Expectations: Treasury of Literature. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1993.
Benaji, Mahzarin, et al, Project Implicit. Accessed July 16, 2017. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/. (website, including self-test for unconscious prejudice)
Boyle, Father Gregory. Tattoos On the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion. New York, NY: Free Press, 2011. ( LA gangs, memoir)
Cara, Alessia, writer. Scars to your beautiful (remixes). EP Entertainment, LLC / Def Jam, 2016, CD. (feminist anthem)
Chua, Amy. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. (Culture clash between Chinese and Western values)
Coates, Ta-Nehisi, and Klaus Amann. Between the World and Me. Ditzingen: Reclam, Philipp, 2017. (Powerful book length letter to teenage black son about the history of race relations in America and the reality of the struggle)
Gorey, Elisabeth. “My Mother Tells the Story of Her Alabama Childhood” | A poem a day. Accessed August 19, 2017. http://exceptindreams.livejournal.com/322399.html (perception by outsiders)
Gregory, Richard and Robert Lipsyte. “Shame” from Autobiography of Dick Gregory. London: Allen & Unwin, 1965. (excerpt on poverty called “Shame” discuss image, prejudice, perceiving a situation from another perspective, and dignity)
India.Arie. I Am Not My Hair. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_5jIt0f5Z4 (song)
Lyon, George Ella. “Where I’m From” http://www.georgeellalyon.com/where.html (poem)
Macat. “An Introduction to Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks- A Macat Sociology Analysis.” You Tube | https://youtu.be/TR3hcm41Nb8.
McBride, James. The Color of Water. Brisbane: Queensland Braille Writing Association, 1999.
Moaveni, Azadeh. Lipstick Jihad: a Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran. Princeton, NJ: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, 2006. (memoir)
Mock, Janet. Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. (Autobiography on trans identity)
Murray, Pauli. Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family. Boston: Beacon Press, 1956. (Skin color and historical significance as an activist for women’s rights, civil rights and gay rights).
Pham, Andrew X. Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam. London: Flamingo, 2001. (travel memoir: returns to Vietnam and renounces his heritage)
Polanco, Julio Noboa. “Identity” http://www.conejousd.org/Portals/49/Departments/English/Burns/identity%20poem%20and%20song.pdf (poem)
Rene, Sonya. “Beautiful” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCcMXfrb8Iw
Rocero, Geena. Geena Rocero: Why I must come out | TED Talk | TED.com. Accessed July 19, 2017. https://www.ted.com/talks/geena_rocero_why_i_must_come_out. (Fashion model speaks about being trans)
Rose, Ruby. Transformation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyY7MY3R8Fs (XRATED! Video about being gender fluid)
Russell, Cameron. Cameron Russell: Looks Aren’t Everything. Believe Me, I’m a Model. | TED Talk. Accessed August 04, 2017. https://www.ted.com/talks/cameron_russell_looks_aren_t_everything_believe_me_i_m_a_model. (Image of women as a construction and building awareness of societal focus on outward appearance)
Santiago Baca, Jimmy. “Who Understands me, But Me” from Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems. New Directions Publishing Co., 1990.
Tan, Amy. “Fish Cheeks” from The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life. New York: Penguin Books, 2004. (parents and culture)
Tohe, Laura. “The Names” in No Parole Today. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. (Navajo poem remembers and honors the names of individuals)
Wright, Richard. Black Boy: (American Hunger): A Record of Childhood and Youth. New York ( N.Y.): Olive Editions/HarperPerennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2015. (poverty, race)
Young, Vershawn Ashanti. Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2007. (Students will be urged to consider the use of prose as Young uses sentence length and complexity as a stylistic device. Separating rhetorical strategies (such as repetition and altering sentence length) from content will assist students in beginning to better analyze argument and begin to understand style)
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