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August 23, 2006

Langston Hughes Web Resources

August 23rd 2006 Posted to English 104A, External Resources for Teachers, African American

Modern American Poetry Site
This site, edited by Cary Nelson of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is a an online companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000). It includes a biography, criticism and several of Hughes’ poems and writings.

The Academy of American Poets
This site includes a biography, several of Hughes’ poems and related prose.

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute Curriculum Unit
This curriculum unit, compiled by G. Casey Cassidy, includes an extensive biography and a long bibliography (both for teachers and students), but includes only a few suggested in-class activities. It is geared towards grades 7-12.

Internet School Library Media Center
This is a teacher resource file for the Langston Hughes. It includes biographies, lesson plans and useful links.

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August 22, 2006

Harlem Renaissance Web Resources

August 22nd 2006 Posted to English 104A, External Resources for Teachers, African American

Harlem: 1900-1940. An Exhibition Portfolio from The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.
This aesthetically appealing site provides lesson plans focused around the “Harlem: 1900-1940” photo exhibition at the Schomburg Center. Lessons are geared towards middle or high-school age students, although this material could also supplement a college-level course. In addition to teacher resources, this site also provides and overview of the photo exhibition, including historical material on each photo displayed.

“Rhapsodies in Black” Art Exhibition and Book
This site includes photos from “Rhapsodies in Black” a traveling art exhibition designed by Richard J. Powell and David A. Bailey that toured London, the University of Warwick, Bristol, San Francisco and Washington D.C. in 1997-1998. The site also features selections from scholarly articles in the exhibition’s accompanying book. There is excellent material here on the art, music and culture of the Harlem Renaissance.

Yale-New Haven Teachers Institue Harlem Renaissance Unit (Gr.9-12)
This is a curriculum guide for a 9 week high school English unit on the Harlem Renaissance. It was designed by Caroline Jackson who works for the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. It includes an excellent historical background, a sequence of lessons, a student reading list and a bibliography for teachers.

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August 18, 2006

Angel Island Web Resources

August 18th 2006 Posted to Teaching Immigration Issues, English 104A, English 50, External Resources for Teachers, Asian American

KQED Education Initiatives Organization Website
This multimedia site includes lesson plans, a movie about the island, sound clips of poems and photos.

Angel Island Organization
This site, which is associated with the California Department of Parks and Recreation, includes a history of the island, photos and an Angel Island Webcam.

Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation (AIISF)
This site includes historical background, phots and information about how to get involved with the foundation.

Oral History Site by Lydia Lum
This site, created by Lydia Lum, is an ongoing oral history project collected from former Angel Island detainees. It includes photos and interviews.

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August 9, 2006

“Teaching Tolerance.” Southern Poverty Law Center. 8 Aug 2006.

August 09th 2006 Posted to External Resources for Teachers

www.tolerance.org/teach

true_blue_150x200.gifTeaching Tolerance is a website founded in 1991 by the Southern Poverty Law Center. It is primarily a resource for lesson plans and educational materials (posters, movies, etc.) that promote respect for differences and appreciation of diversity in the classroom. The lesson plans are labeled by grade and span from kindergarten to high school. In addition, the site has links to tips for teachers in diverse classrooms, a “news watch” that summarizes recent race-related news and a “kids” section which offers diversity-related games, readings and activities. (Read the article)

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August 2, 2006

“POV For Educators.” POV. PBS. 2 Aug 2006.

August 02nd 2006 Posted to External Resources for Teachers

http://www.pbs.org/pov/classroom.php

This website offers lesson plans geared towards students grades 6-12 or 9-12 based around PBS “Point Of View” documentaries. Teachers can rent the documentaries for free on the POV website. Some POV movies dealing with issues of race and immigration include: Al Otro Lado, a “rich examination of songs, drugs and dreams along the U.S./Mexico border” (POV) and Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball, a film that explores the role of high school baseball in both American and Japanese cultures. The site offers lesson plans, links to the movie trailers and access to the POV film archive. (Read the article)

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“Teaching in Racially Diverse College Classrooms.” Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University. 2 Aug 2006. 2339

August 02nd 2006 Posted to External Resources for Teachers

http://bokcenter.harvard.edu/docs/TFTrace.html

This website provides educators with useful tips for teaching in racially diverse college classrooms. Produced out of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University, this site offers suggestions for how to: “1. Plan for a racially diverse classroom, 2. Design classroom instruction materials with a diverse group of students in mind, 3. Confront potential issues of discrimination and handle hot moments, and 4. Assess one’s own racial or cultural bias” (Derek Bok Center). Although this handout is geared towards college instructors it could also prove useful for high school teachers. This site is particularly good about offering suggestions for how teachers can handle “hot moments” in class discussion. It also lists a useful set of questions teachers can ask themselves to assess their own cultural, ideological and racial biases.

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August 1, 2006

“Immigration.” Library of Congress Learning Page Project. 1 Aug 2006.

August 01st 2006 Posted to External Resources for Teachers

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/introduction.html

This interactive site, geared towards middle and high school age students, provides information about the history of immigration to the U.S. for a wide variety of ethnicities and nationalities, including African, German, Irish, Scandinavian, Italian, Japanese, Mexican, Chinese, Puerto Rican/Cuban and Polish/Russian. The site also features a section on Native Americans and how they have been affected by immigration. Each link to a specific nationality includes a timeline of major immigration events/legislation and a map of where each immigrant group settled. The site includes interactive games, a recipe book (under the “Potluck” link), and several teacher-created, teacher-tested lesson plans on U.S. immigration (under the “Resources” link). This website is a great way for educators and students to gain access to primary source material from the Library of Congress in an entertaining and approachable form. (Read the article)

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“The New Americans.” The Independent Lens. PBS. 1 Aug 2006.

August 01st 2006 Posted to External Resources for Teachers

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/newamericans/

Geared towards grades 7-12, this interactive site provide users with opportunities to explore the immigration experience interactively—through a timeline, maps, and exercises in tracking family history and examining the effect of immigration on the nation. (Litwin) (Read the article)

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July 31, 2006

Gorski, Paul. “Multicultural Pavilion.” 2006. EdChange. 31 Jul 2006.

2d4c July 31st 2006 Posted to External Resources for Teachers

www.edchange.org/multicultural

This website, designed by Paul Gorski, an Education Professor at Hamline University, is a useful resource for teachers of all levels and incorporates a wide variety of classroom materials and critical articles on race and education. Gorski’s “Multicultural Pavilion” includes links to diversity handouts, awareness activities, speeches and quotations dealing with multiculturalism in the classroom, articles about multicultural education as well as a link to a listserv of hundreds of educators interested in multicultural education. (Read the article)

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August 28, 2005

Defining Race and Pedagogy

August 28th 2005 Posted to Teaching Immigration Issues, UCSB Courses, Lesson Plans, Syllabi, English 104A, Writing 2, English 197, English 10AC, English 165HR, English 50, English 103A, External Resources for Teachers, Specific U.S. Racial Groups, African American, Asian American, Latino / Latina American, Native American, Type of Resource, Literature, Film, Photographs, Visual Art / Posters, Music Recordings, Maps, Recordings of Speeches, Legal Documents, Panels and Lectures, Biography, Other

Although these terms are often used as though they signified clear and well-bounded meanings, both words have complex histories and implications that are frequently only discernable once one considers the contexts in which they are used. For the purposes of this site, we offer the following definitions: (Read the article)

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