Nearly all students from low鈥慽ncome households
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My students are a diverse group not only ethnically and racially, but also in their politics, their experiences, and their skills and fields of interest. For many of my students, issues of race in the US have become particularly relevant and urgent. We explored these through news media analysis, a brief nonfiction book, and Socratic discussions on the subject in previous years. Their questions leave us with more questions than answers. In the past, the one thing our nonfiction works have not been able to capture is the human emotions associated with the experience of being a teen in a racialized society, or the genuinely empathizing with how we may never fully understand someone else鈥檚 experience with racism. This YA fiction book by Reynolds offers a careful exploration of the subject for teens in grades 11-12 with characters who represent their interests, experiences, and voices as young people. It provides an accessible lexile for adolescent readers who struggle with highly literary genre of fiction so that they can begin to build the skills for more complex texts. This book will be added as the access point and introduction to a unit on race and social justice in the US.
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My students are a diverse group not only ethnically and racially, but also in their politics, their experiences, and their skills and fields of interest. For many of my students, issues of race in the US have become particularly relevant and urgent. We explored these through news media analysis, a brief nonfiction book, and Socratic discussions on the subject in previous years. Their questions leave us with more questions than answers. In the past, the one thing our nonfiction works have not been able to capture is the human emotions associated with the experience of being a teen in a racialized society, or the genuinely empathizing with how we may never fully understand someone else鈥檚 experience with racism. This YA fiction book by Reynolds offers a careful exploration of the subject for teens in grades 11-12 with characters who represent their interests, experiences, and voices as young people. It provides an accessible lexile for adolescent readers who struggle with highly literary genre of fiction so that they can begin to build the skills for more complex texts. This book will be added as the access point and introduction to a unit on race and social justice in the US.