Using Informational Text to Teach A Raisin in the Sun (eBook)

Susan Chenelle, Audrey Fisch (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
230 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-2155-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book is designed to make it easy for teachers to include informational text in their teaching of A Raisin in the Sun. The authors have included a wide range of materials, in terms of reading level, subject matter, length, and style of writing. Some materials are historical in orientation and offer background information; others are more polemical in nature and offer students a window into controversies about the text; others are simply unusual, dynamic pieces that offer students different reading experiences as well interesting connections with Raisin.

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The Common Core State Standards mean major changes for language arts teachers, particularly the emphasis on "e;informational text."e; How do we shift attention toward informational texts without taking away from the teaching of literature? The key is informational texts deeply connected to the literary texts you are teaching.Preparing informational texts for classroom use, however, requires time and effort. Using Informational Text to Teach Literature is designed to help. In this second volume (the first volume is on To Kill a Mockingbird), we offer informational texts connected to Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. Readings range in genre (commencement address, historical and cultural analysis, government report, socioeconomic research study, and Supreme Court decision) and topic (housing discrimination past and present, abortion, the racial and cultural politics of hair, socioeconomic mobility and inequality, the violence associated with housing desegregation, and the struggle against the legacy of systemic racism).Each informational text is part of a student-friendly unit, with reading strategies and vocabulary, writing, and discussion activities.Teachers need to incorporate nonfiction in ways that enhance their teaching of literature.The Using Informational Text to Teach Literature series is an invaluable supportive tool.

Autor

Audrey Fisch is Professor of English and Coordinator of Secondary English Education at New Jersey City University where she has taught for over twenty years. She has published a wide variety of academic work (including books with Cambridge and Oxford University Presses, numerous scholarly articles, and writing about teaching) and has worked as a curriculum consultant and professional development provider for K-12 districts in New Jersey.Susan Chenelle has taught English and journalism for seven years at University Academy Charter High School in Jersey City, New Jersey, where she serves as English department lead and peer coach for humanities. She holds a master’s degree in education from New Jersey City University and a bachelor’s degree in English from Kenyon College.

Inhalt

Table of Contents PrefaceAcknowledgementsHow to Use this BookUnit 1: What does Ruth risk by seeing “that woman”?Rickie Solinger: The Abortionist: A Woman Against the LawLoretta J. Ross: “African-American Women and Abortion”Unit 2: Any homes available?United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: Housing Discrimination Against Racial and Ethnic Minorities 2012Unit 3: What’s with Beneatha’s hair?Andrea Benton Rushing: “Hair-Raising”bell hooks: Black Looks: Race and RepresentationAlice Walker: “Oppressed Hair Puts a Ceiling on the Brain”Unit 4: How does our world shape us and our opportunities?”Lyndon B. Johnson: “Commencement Address at Howard University: `To Fulfill These Rights’”Unit 5: How difficult would it really have been for the Youngers to buy a home in Clybourne Park?City of Seattle: Restrictive CovenantChief Justice Fred Vinson: Shelley v. KraemerBeryl Satter: Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban AmericaUnit 6: Is America the land of opportunity?Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline, and Emmanuel Saez: “Where Is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the U.S.” Unit 7: Do people have the right to live wherever they want, even if they are not wanted?Chicago Commission on Human Relations: “The Trumbull Park Homes Disturbances: A Chronological Report”RubricsAbout the AuthorsAnswers to all sections are available on the series website: www.usinginformationaltext.com.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.2.2016
• Reihe/Serie: The Using Informational Text to Teach Literature Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-2155-7 / 1475821557
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-2155-0 / 9781475821550