Literature, Life-Writing, and Identity

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 17.02.08

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Background
  3. Rationale
  4. Objectives
  5. The Stories of Others, the Making of Ourselves: Teaching Strategies for Multicultural Learning
  6. Classroom Activities
  7. Teacher Resources
  8. Appendix: Satisfying Standards
  9. Bibliography
  10. Endnotes

American Born Readers: A Multicultural, Multimedia Attempt to Challenge Perspectives and Inspire Reading

Robert McKinnon Schwartz

Published September 2017

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Endnotes

  1. Maya Angelou, “Human Family,” All Poetry, Accessed July, 2017, https://allpoetry.com/Human-Family.
  2. Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, (New York: Atria, 2014), pp. xvi
  3. David Denby, Lit Up: One Reporter, Three Schools, Twenty-Four Books That Can Change Lives, (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2016), pp. 2
  4. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “The Danger of a Single Story,” TED Talk, 2009, Accessed July, 2017, https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.
  5. Hilde Lindeman Nelson, Damaged Identities, Narrative Repair, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001), pp. 6
  6. Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric, (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2014), pp. 55
  7. Hilde Lindeman Nelson, Damaged Identities, Narrative Repair, pp. 6
  8. Ibid, 6
  9. David Denby, Lit Up, pp. 9
  10. Jill Campbell, “Violence, Visibility, and Voice.” (Lecture at the Yale National Initiative to Strengthen Teaching in Public Schools Intensive Session, New Haven, CT, July, 2017).
  11. Ibid
  12. Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric, pp. 18
  13. Robin DiAngelo, “White Fragility.” International Journal of Critical Pedogogy 3, Vol. 3, (2011): pp. 55
  14. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “The Danger of a Single Story” TED Talk
  15. Ibid
  16. Ibid
  17. Ibid
  18. Ibid
  19. Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese, (New York: Square Fish, Re-print edition, 2008), back cover
  20. Jiahong Wang, “Between Realism and Genre Fiction: American Born Chinese and Strange Fruit,” Midwest Quarterly, 58:2, (Winter 2017): pp. 220
  21. Jerry Spinelli, Maniac Magee, (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2015), pp. 58
  22. Maya Angelou, “Human Family”

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