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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Teacher Resources

1. Teaching Tolerance:

Having sensitive multicultural conversations with students where we must confront problems, challenges, disagreements, and perhaps dissent, it is important to set a framework for these conversations. Teaching Tolerance is a great resource. One such lesson can be found at: http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/my-multicultural-self. There are also links to other great resources for having these conversations in your classroom in a safe, successful way.

2. Additional Voices:

  • Latino Stories: “Woman Hollering Creek,” short story by Sandra Cinceros; “Being Indian, A Candle Flame, and So Many Dying Starts,” short story by Anna Castillo; “The Chosen Ones,” poem by Pablo Neruda
  • Stories of Native America: “Every Little Hurricane,” and really any other short story by Sherman Alexie; Sliver of a Full Moon, play by Mary Katherine Nagle; “Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings,” poem by Joy Harjo; “It Has Always Been This Way,” poem by Luci Tapahonso

3. Links to important videos and texts (also found in the Bibliography section):

  • Adichie’s “The Danger of a Single Story”: https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story
  • The text of Adichie’s “Olikoye”: https://medium.com/matter/olikoye-b027d7c0a680
  • Text of DiAngelo’s “White Fragility”: http://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/viewFile/249/116
  • Geena Rocero’s “Why I Must Come Out”: https://www.ted.com/talks/geena_rocero_why_i_must_come_out

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