Integrating African American Literature in the Library and Classroom
In this book, African American literature is illuminated through a project-based curriculum that incorporates national curriculum standards.

It is important that the school curriculae be representative of the diversity of the American student population. Integrating African American Literature in the Library and Classroom is designed to help teachers and librarians achieve that goal. The book recommends and annotates more than 200 titles that touch on African American life from slavery through the present time, most of them by black authors, and many of them winners of the Coretta Scott King, Caldecott, and/or Newbery awards.

This guide offers cross-curricular lesson plans for grades K–12. Each chapter identifies areas in which instructional attention is most needed to help students develop a greater appreciation for diversity, perseverance, and ethnicity. Examples and ideas for activities are offered to reinforce related concepts. With this book, teachers and librarians will be better able to motivate and inform, helping students discover the richness of African American culture now and through time.

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Integrating African American Literature in the Library and Classroom
In this book, African American literature is illuminated through a project-based curriculum that incorporates national curriculum standards.

It is important that the school curriculae be representative of the diversity of the American student population. Integrating African American Literature in the Library and Classroom is designed to help teachers and librarians achieve that goal. The book recommends and annotates more than 200 titles that touch on African American life from slavery through the present time, most of them by black authors, and many of them winners of the Coretta Scott King, Caldecott, and/or Newbery awards.

This guide offers cross-curricular lesson plans for grades K–12. Each chapter identifies areas in which instructional attention is most needed to help students develop a greater appreciation for diversity, perseverance, and ethnicity. Examples and ideas for activities are offered to reinforce related concepts. With this book, teachers and librarians will be better able to motivate and inform, helping students discover the richness of African American culture now and through time.

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Integrating African American Literature in the Library and Classroom

Integrating African American Literature in the Library and Classroom

by Dorothy Littlejohn Guthrie
Integrating African American Literature in the Library and Classroom

Integrating African American Literature in the Library and Classroom

by Dorothy Littlejohn Guthrie

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Overview

In this book, African American literature is illuminated through a project-based curriculum that incorporates national curriculum standards.

It is important that the school curriculae be representative of the diversity of the American student population. Integrating African American Literature in the Library and Classroom is designed to help teachers and librarians achieve that goal. The book recommends and annotates more than 200 titles that touch on African American life from slavery through the present time, most of them by black authors, and many of them winners of the Coretta Scott King, Caldecott, and/or Newbery awards.

This guide offers cross-curricular lesson plans for grades K–12. Each chapter identifies areas in which instructional attention is most needed to help students develop a greater appreciation for diversity, perseverance, and ethnicity. Examples and ideas for activities are offered to reinforce related concepts. With this book, teachers and librarians will be better able to motivate and inform, helping students discover the richness of African American culture now and through time.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781598847512
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 09/14/2011
Pages: 308
Product dimensions: 8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Dorothy Littlejohn Guthrie is school librarian at Crowders Creek Elementary School in the Clover School District, Clover, SC. She was the former school library director of Gaston County Schools in Gastonia, NC. She has written several articles for Cable in the Classroom, a magazine produced by Time Warner Cable.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Why I Wrote This Book
Chapter 1: Arts
Chapter 2: Autobiography, Biography, and Memoirs
Chapter 3: Be a Good Sport
Chapter 4: Boys Will Be Boys—"Believing Brothers"
Chapter 5: Celebrations and Holidays
Chapter 6: Civil Rights
Chapter 7: Education
Chapter 8: Faith-Based Dreams
Chapter 9: Family and Friends
Chapter 10: Growing Girls
Chapter 11: Historic Sites, Landmarks, and Places
Chapter 12: Links to Literature
Chapter 13: Men of Honor
Chapter 14: Scientific in Their Thinking
Chapter 15: Sisters
Chapter 16: Slaves, Slavery, and The Underground Railroad
Chapter 17: Special Challenges
Chapter 18: Values That Shape Character
Chapter 19: Youth Issues
Chapter 20: The Coretta Scott King Book Awards
Index

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