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Direct linkGercken-Hawkins, Becca – American Indian Quarterly, 2003
In this article, the author shares her experience teaching Native American and African American literature at a top public liberal arts college. Working with a large Native American student population and growing up in Montana, the author had both seen and experienced the racism Native Americans face in their culture. As a new faculty member, the…
Descriptors: African Americans, American Indian Literature, African American Literature, American Indians
Download full textFluellen, Jerry E., Jr.; Fluellen, Ingrid – Online Submission, 2006
150 students at McKinley Technology High School in Washington, DC have engaged the Harvard Model for creating a culture of thinking. This Tishman, Perkins, and Jay framework introduced them to four forces of enculturation and six dimensions of a thinking classroom in combination with African American Literature and Future Studies as specific…
Descriptors: African American Literature, African American Students, High School Students, Public Schools
Fluellen, Jerry E., Jr. – Online Submission, 2006
Preparing students for college and work in the Knowledge Age. That is the mission of this generic proposal. A counterpoint to Industrial Age mindsets marking most initiatives in the District of Columbia Public schools and described in the "fifth discipline" works of Peter Senge, Creating a Culture of Thinking in DCPS proposes a project…
Descriptors: African American Literature, African American Students, High School Students, Public Schools
Stiler, Gary; Allen, Lisa – Multicultural Education, 2006
The Carver Community Center in Evansville, Indiana, uses an academic enrichment program to support neighborhood students. The curriculum involves children in learning about African-American literary traditions and folk art. The Center's work is based on the premise that African-American children need to encounter the reality of history as in…
Descriptors: African Americans, United States History, Enrichment Activities, Academic Standards
Rowe, Deborah Wells, Ed.; Jimenez, Robert T., Ed.; Compton, Donald L., Ed.; Dickinson, David K., Ed.; Kim, Youb, Ed.; Leander, Kevin M., Ed.; Risko, Victoria J., Ed. – National Reading Conference, 2007
This publication offers the 56th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (NRC). This Yearbook begins with a preface and presents profiles of three awardees, Michael C. McKenna, Douglas K. Hartman, and Michael Kamil. Included in this Yearbook are the following papers: (1) What's It All About? Literacy Research and Civic Responsibility (Victoria…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Curriculum Development, Literacy, Popular Culture
National Council of Teachers of English, 2004
This issue of "Classroom Notes Plus" contains descriptions of original, unpublished teaching practices, and of adapted ideas. Under the "Ideas from the Classroom" section, the August 2003 issue (v21 n1) contains the following materials: Reading Poetry with Wright's "Black Boy" (David Fuder); Finding Poetry Lost in Translation (James Penha); "Lord…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Poetry, African American Literature
