This unit asks students to engage with real and imagined transformations, monstrous and otherwise, and in so doing to master state-mandated learning objectives in literacy, as well as the use of modern communications technology. Students will create research projects that analyze and critique past, present, and future events that may have engendered unfairness and inequality, in order to become agents of progress and change….Continue Reading Monsters, Transformations, and Annihilations: Atwood, Garland, Kafka, Ishiguro, Okorafor, Shakespeare
Subject: ESL
Teaching Literacy through Native American Literature
I am writing this curriculum unit to create a meaningful approach for the introduction of Native American Literature to my 6th grade multilingual (ML) students. There are enormous pedagogical benefits from choosing books for their classrooms that are tribally specific (that name a specific tribal nation and accurately represent that nation), written by Native writers, and set in the present day……Continue Reading Teaching Literacy through Native American Literature