Literature, Life-Writing, and Identity

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 17.02.04

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Background
  4. Content Objectives
  5. Teaching Strategies
  6. Activities
  7. Annotated Bibliography
  8. Implementing District Standards
  9. Endnotes

Finding Me, Knowing You: Exploring and Expressing Identity through Language Arts

Tharish Harris

Published September 2017

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Endnotes

  1. Janet Mock, Redefining Realness, xviii.
  2. Hilde Lindemann Nelson, Damaged Identities, Narrative Repair, 6.
  3. Erik Erikson, Identity: Youth and Crisis, 23.
  4. Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics,” 140.
  5. Christine Emba, “Intersectionality,” The Washington Post, September 15, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2015/09/21/intersectionality-a-primer/?utm_term=.c393dc830a98, (accessed August 17, 2017).
  6. Sailor Holladay, “Filling,” in Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class, 75.
  7. Elizabeth Alexander, “Butter,” in The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food & Drink, ed. Kevin Young (New York: Bloomsbury, 2012), 54.
  8. J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, 79.
  9. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me, 12.
  10. Booker T. Washington, “An Address on Abraham Lincoln,” February 12, 1909, http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/an-address-on-abraham-lincoln/, (accessed August 8, 2017).
  11. James Baldwin, “Many Thousands Gone,” in Notes of a Native Son, 25-26.
  12. James Baldwin, “Many Thousands Gone,” in Notes of a Native Son, 27-28.
  13. Claudia Rankine, Citizen, 59.
  14. James Baldwin, “A Letter to My Nephew,” The Progressive, January 1, 1962, http://progressive.org/magazine/letter-nephew/, (accessed August 8, 2017).
  15. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me, 11-12.
  16. Nas, “The World Is Yours,” from Illmatic, 1994.
  17. Janet Mock, Redefining Realness, 65.
  18. Kelly Gallagher, Write Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling & Mentor Texts, 16.

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