Rooted in examples from their own and others’ classrooms, the authors offer discipline-specific practices for implementing antiracist literature instruction in White-dominant schools. Each chapter explores a key dimension of antiracist literature teaching and learning, including designing literature-based units that emphasize racial literacy, selecting literature that highlights voices of color, analyzing Whiteness in canonical literature, examining texts through a critical race lens, managing challenges of race talk, and designing formative assessments for racial literacy and identity growth.Book Features:Specific classroom scenarios and transcripts of race-related challenges that teachers will recognize to help situate suggested strategies.Sample racial literacy objectives, questions, and assessments to guide unit instruction. A literature-based unit that addresses societal racism in A Raisin in the Sun. Assignments for exploring Whiteness in the teaching of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Questions teachers can use to examine To Kill a Mockingbird through a critical race lens. Techniques for managing difficult moments in whole group discussions. Collaborative glossary and exploratory essay assignments to build understanding of race-based concepts and racial identity development.
✔ Author(s): Carlin Borsheim-Black,Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides,Timothy J. Lensmire
✔ Title: Letting Go of Literary Whiteness: Antiracist Literature Instruction for White Students (Language and Literacy Series)
✔ Rating : 4.6 out of 5 base on (129 reviews)
✔ ISBN-10: 0807763055
✔ ISBN-13: 9780807763056
✔ Language: English
✔ Format ebook: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, HTML and MOBI
✔ Device compatibles: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle
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