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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
View Full RecordAdd to My ORC CollectionORC# 4016
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RESOURCE URL: http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=449
RESOURCE TYPE: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice
DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts
STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 9 - 12
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....
PROJECTS: AdLIT, OhioWINS
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Making Connections to Myth and Folktale: The Many Ways to Rainy Mountain
View Full RecordAdd to My ORC CollectionORC# 3370
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RESOURCE URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=281
RESOURCE TYPE: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice
DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts
STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: 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....
PROJECTS: AdLIT, OhioWINS
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Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Critical Discussion of Social Issues
View Full RecordAdd to My ORC CollectionORC# 2769
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RESOURCE URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=86
RESOURCE TYPE: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice
DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts
STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 4 - 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....
PROJECTS: AdLIT
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Seeing Integration from Different Viewpoints
View Full RecordAdd to My ORC CollectionORC# 4797
RESOURCE INFORMATION
RESOURCE URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=816
RESOURCE TYPE: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice
DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts, English Language Arts
STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 6 - 7
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. In response to the text, students work together in postreading groups in an activity called The Five Decision Lenses, (adapted from Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono, Back Bay Books, 1999). Using "colored glasses" to encourage conversations from multiple perspectives, students consider the events of the story from different points of view....
PROJECTS: AdLIT
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A Study Guide for In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
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RESOURCE INFORMATION
RESOURCE URL: http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/in/intg.html
RESOURCE TYPE: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice
DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts
STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 4 - 6
PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: This instructional unit uses the novel In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson to explore the life of a Chinese immigrant living in New York City in the late 1940's. Students examine social issues like racism by comparing the novel's main character to Jackie Robinson....
PROJECTS: AdLIT, OhioWINS
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Making Personal and Cultural Connections Using A Girl Named Disaster
View Full RecordAdd to My ORC CollectionORC# 3810
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RESOURCE URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=166
RESOURCE TYPE: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice
DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts
STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: 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 and on her many travels alone....
PROJECTS: AdLIT
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