Poems about Works of Art, Featuring Women and Other Marginalized Writers

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 18.02.05

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale and Objectives
  3. History of Segregation in Chicago
  4. Chicago Neighborhoods of Focus  
  5. Poetry About Works of Art, Ekphrastic Poetry
  6. Activism in Art
  7. Strategies that Create Transcending Poems and Authentic and Extensive Interpretations About Works of Art
  8. Poems in Action
  9. Classroom Activities
  10. Notes
  11. Teacher Resources
  12. Student Resources
  13. Appendix

Activism and Cultural Identity Through Works of Art in Chicago Neighborhoods

Laura Michelle Gillihan

Published September 2018

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Teacher Resources

Davis, Matt. "How Collaborative Learning Leads to Student Success." Edutopia. Accessed July 16, 2018. https://www.edutopia.org/stw-collaborative-learning-college-prep.

Fernandez, Lilia. Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Genova, Nicholas De, Nicholas DeGenova, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, and Ana Yolanda. Ramos-Zayas. Latino Crossings. London: Routledge, 2003.

Innis-Jiménez, Michael. Steel Barrio the Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915-1940. New York: New York Univ. Press, 2013.

JANKOV, Pavlyn; CAREF, Carol. Segregation and inequality in Chicago Public Schools, transformed and intensified under corporate education reform. education policy analysis archives, [S.l.], v. 25, p. 56, june 2017. ISSN 1068-2341. Available at: <https://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/2631>. Date accessed: 02 aug. 2018. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.25.2631.

Ling, Huping. Chinese Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration, and Community since 1870. Stanford: California, 2012.

Moore, Natalie Y. The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation. New York, NY: Picador, 2017.

Moser, Whet. "How Redlining Segregated Chicago, and America." Chicago Magazine. Accessed August 03, 2018. http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/August-2017/How-Redlining-Segregated-Chicago-and-America/.

Pattillo, Mary E. Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

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