A History of Black People as Readers: A Genealogy of Critical Literacy

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 24.02.05

  1. Unit Guide
  1. School Background:
  2. Introduction and Teaching Situation
  3. Rationale and Content Objectives
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  7. Resources (Bibliography for Teachers)
  8. Notes

Through the Labor of Literacy

Tyriese Holloway

Published September 2024

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Resources (Bibliography for Teachers)

“Bible Gateway Passage: Matthew 10:29-31 - New International Version.” Bible Gateway, www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+10%3A29-31&version=NIV. Accessed 2 Aug. 2024. This is a simple and easy way for students to be on the same page when it comes to having access to the Bible verse.

Brooks, Arthur C. “The Kind of Smarts You Don’t Find in Young People.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 7 Apr. 2022, www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/03/older-workers-silicon-valley-business/623880/. While this is angled as more or less as another business book chapter, I think that this can help students to help get a better understanding of the expectations and standards of intelligence set by the business world. This would be a great supplementary reading to what was presented by Carol Dweck, and students can compare and contrast the lessons based in the supplementary text to what they have read by Dweck.

Dunbar , Paul Laurence “The Sparrow.” Poets.Org, Academy of American Poets, 24 July 2020, poets.org/poem/sparrow-0. This is the poem that is supplementary to Angelou's anchor text. The goal of this reading is to expand the metaphor of the sparrow and to help improve student's creative thinking around metaphor and symbolic images.

“The Life of Frederick Douglass.” YouTube, YouTube, 1 Sept. 2020, www.youtube.com/watch?v=prf5I0_R23s. A relatively quick and accessible summary of the life of Frederick Douglass. This may prove to be useful for students to complete a KWL chart.

Muller, Derek, and Petr Lebedev. “The Biggest Myth in Education.” Edited by Trenton Oliver, YouTube, Veritasium , 9 July 2021, www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhgwIhB58PA. This resource will prove useful to both students and teachers alike. This video challenges the "useful myth" of learning styles through means of face of face interviews and substantiated research.

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