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From the ORC Collection
More Resources for Addressing Classroom Diversity Through Literature
Below is a list of instructional resources from the ORC collection related to this
issue's theme, Addressing Classroom Diversity Through Literature. In addition, for
this issue, we would like to direct your attention to the AdLIT Sample Unit Plan:
Exploring the Life and Literature of Africa, which you can access at
http://www.ohiorc.org/adlit/units/units_each.aspx?unitID=5.
Quest for the American Dream in A Raisin in the Sun Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: People of all backgrounds live in America and come to America dreaming of social, educational, economical opportunities as well as political and religious freedoms. In this extended lesson, students read and analyze the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry....
Making Connections to Myth and Folktale : The Many Ways to Rainy Mountain Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In The Way to Rainy Mountain, N. Scott Momaday links the survival of his people to their ability to remember, preserve, and pass on stories....
Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Critical Discussion of Social Issues Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 5–7 Professional Commentary: This lesson uses picture books to invite students to engage in critical discussions of such complex issues as race, class, and gender. Students gain insight into some of the social barriers that separate people from one another as they examine examples of prejudice and inequality....
Seeing Integration from Different Viewpoints Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grade 6 Professional Commentary: This lesson uses The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles, which describes the court-ordered desegregation of an all-white school in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1960, as a basis for a Directed Reading–Thinking Activity. A prereading strategy captures students' interest and provides an opportunity to make predictions about the story....
Making Personal and Cultural Connections Using A Girl Named Disaster Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This lesson is intended to help students experience both "efferent" (reading for information) and "aesthetic" (reading as a personal, emotional experience) responses to the story A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer. Students work as a whole class and with partners to explore the main character Nhamo as she struggles to survive in her extended family...
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