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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Notes

April Baker-Bell, Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy.

2 Ibid.

3 R. Tolteka Cuauhtin et. al, Rethinking Ethnic Studies.

4 Ibid.

5 Bettina Love, We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and The Pursuit of Educational Freedom.

6 Sidney Lens, The Forging of the American Empire: From the Revolution to Vietnam: A History of American Imperialism.

7 Juan Gonzalez, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America.

8 Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 89.

9 Aimee Riechel, “Our Oral History Narrative Project,” 109.

10 Eric Bullard, “Oral Tradition.”

11 Zanneta Kubajak, “Freedom Dreaming: Critical Thought Through Imagination.”

12 April Baker-Bell, Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy, 64.

13 https://www.ethnologue.com/insights/how-many-languages/

14 Madhu Suri Prakash and Gustavo Esteva, Escaping Education: Living as Learning within Grassroots Cultures, 8.

15 Ibid

16 April Baker-Bell, Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy, 65.

17 Geneva Smitherman, Word from the Mother: Language and African Americans, cited in April Baker-Bell, Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy, 65.

18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7FIky7wplI

19 Fred Robinson, “The History of English and Its Practical Uses.”

20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7FIky7wplI

21 Ibid.

22 Lisa Green, African American English: A Linguistic Introduction, 74.

23 https://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/AAVE/worldscollide/#:~:text=Debate%20about%20language%20origins%20and,from%20Africa%20to%20North%20America.

24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7FIky7wplI

25 April Baker-Bell, Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy, 75

26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7FIky7wplI

27 April Baker-Bell, Quoted in Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy, 101.

28 Ibid, 67.

29 https://vpm.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/hidden-messages-in-spirituals-video-gallery/underground-railroad-the-william-still-story/

30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7FIky7wplI

31 Eric Bullard, “Oral Tradition.”

32 R. Tolteka Cuauhtin et. al, Rethinking Ethnic Studies, 27.

33 Ibid.

34 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7FIky7wplI

35 Robert W. Maloy and Irene S. LaRoche. We, The Students and Teachers: Teaching Democratically in the History and Social Studies Classroom, 19.

36 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxrGHH7ns4w&t=2s

37 Ibid.

38 Ibid

39 Tiearea J. Robinson. “The Healing Element of the Spirituals.”

40 https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/sahel-sunjata-stories-songs

41 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9wrTasaln8

42 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxrGHH7ns4w&t=2s

43 Ibid.

44 Ibid.

45 Ibid.

46 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/bob-kaufman

47 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/amiri-baraka

48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxrGHH7ns4w&t=2s

49 Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 81.

50 https://storycorps.org/discover/

51 https://storycorps.org/discover/brightness-in-black/

52 Ibid.

53 Ibid.

54 Ibid.

55 Cliff Mayotte. The Power of the Story: The Voice of Witness Teacher’s Guide to Oral History, 102.

56 Aimee Riechel. “Our Oral History Narrative Project,” in Rethinking Ethnic Studies, 111.

57 https://www.blackmusicproject.com/artists/2pac#:~:text=Born%20Lesane%20Parish%20Crooks%2C%20he%20was%20renamed,him%20to%20know%20he%20was%20part%20of

58 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tupac-Shakur

59 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb1ZvUDvLDY

60 Santi E. Holley. “How Afeni Shakur Put Black Women First In the Fight for Liberation.” https://time.com/6282004/afeni-shakur-black-women-liberation-legacy/

61 https://freedomarchives.org/the-political-thought-of-afeni-shakur/

62  April Baker-Bell, Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy.

63 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF4MCdb2Pso

64 Elisabeth Burgos-Debray and Ann Wright. I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala.  

65 Ibid.

66 Ibid, 1.

67 Ibid, 2.

68 Cliff Mayotte. The Power of the Story: The Voice of Witness Teacher’s Guide to Oral History, 105.

69 https://storycorps.org/animation/mi-abuela-panchita/

70 Felicia R. Chavez. The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom. 34.

71 Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, et. al. “What is Ethnic Studies Pedagogy?,” in Rethinking Ethnic Studies, 20.

72 Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 69.

73 Ibid, 54.

74 Felicia R. Chavez. The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom.

75 Ibid.

76 April Baker-Bell, Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy, 42.

77 Felicia R. Chavez. The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom, 32.

78 Ibid, quoted in 33.

79 Ibid, 34.

80 Aimee Riechel. “Our Oral History Narrative Project,” in Rethinking Ethnic Studies.

81 Cliff Mayotte. The Power of the Story: The Voice of Witness Teacher’s Guide to Oral History.

82 Verlyn Klinkenborg. Several short sentences about writing, 50.

83 Felicia R. Chavez. The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom, 129.

84 https://www.readwritethink.org/

85 Felicia R. Chavez. The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom, 157-158.

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