Humanities Reimagined

Mission Statement

Much of the English language arts curriculum in US public schools is canonical and dominated by texts that center on perspectives of white authors or that were selected by white teachers. As schools and society in the US are serving students from a wide range of racial, ethnic, and linguistic backgrounds, school curricula should reflect that diversity. This project seeks to diversify the stories and voices that students are exposed to within the school English curriculum. Literature has the power to provide students with mirrors to feel validated in their own experiences and identities, windows to see into the perspectives of others, and so much more. The stories students experience in their classrooms can shape imagination, community, and action.

Through this project, teachers will be able to access open-source instructional materials. We provide both student-facing and teacher-facing materials through Google Drive that you can download, use, and make your own. We choose engaging literature that is framed with essential questions and moves toward both analytic and creative summative assessments. The accompanying assignments and supplemental primary sources are curated to create engagement, access, and perspective. By engaging with primary sources, historical and contemporary, context and complexity are added into these curriculum units.