The Art of Writing and Revision

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 25.02.04

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Background Knowledge & Content
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Annotated Bibliography
  7. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  8. Notes

Remembering, Retelling, Reclaiming Stories: Decolonizing Storytelling

LJ Delao

Published September 2025

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Annotated Bibliography

Baker-Bell, April. Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy. New York: Routledge, 2020. This is a crucial text on Anti-racist Black Language Pedagogy.

Burgos-Debray, Elisabeth and Wright, Ann. I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian woman in Guatemala. New York: Verso, 1992. This text is an oral account by Indigenous human rights activist, Rigoberta Menchú about her life which was edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray and translated by Ann Wright.

Chavez, Felicia Rose. The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom. Chicago: Haymarket, 2021. This nonfiction text informs on approaches and strategies to develop an anti-racist practice for all students, students of color in particular, to thrive in a reading and writing class.

StoryCorps. https://storycorps.org/. This is a website and platform focused on oral storytelling.

Tolteka Cuauhtin, R., et al. Rethinking Ethnic Studies. Milwaukee, Wi, Rethinking Schools, 2019. This is an anthology by many Ethnic Studies scholars and educators on the theory and practice of ethnic studies pedagogy as well as stories by teachers on integrating Ethnic Studies in their classrooms and schools.

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