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Week of January 10
Class Focus: Teaching About Racism through Literature in White Schools

What you need: Just yourself

"The Danger of a Single Story" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • If we think about this talk as a call to action for ELA teachers, what is it asking us to do?

  • How does this look different from what we may have experienced in our own ML ELA classes?

  • What do we need to focus on in this class to answer this call to action?​​

"I've always felt that it is impossible to engage properly with a place or a person without engaging with all of the stories of that place and that person. The consequence of the single story is this: It robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar..."

“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”

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Class Guest: Sarah Bonner

Thank you to Sarah for assisting in our listening circle!
 
For Next Class
Open Book
To Read

  1. Chapters 1 & 2 of Letting Go of Literary Whiteness

  2. All of Ain't Burned All the Bright

Doing Homework
To Do

1. Familiarize yourself with our course site

2. Slack me a link to your portfolio & your bio information if you have not already done so

3. Review the syllabus

4. Check out the book options and submit your preferences by Sunday, Jan. 16 at 5pm

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