The unit's major goals include but are not limited to inviting our students to do some self introspection and investigate how others express their identities and stories in an effort to improve their personal statements from last year. To do so, we are exposing our students to various types of storytelling from a diverse pool of authors. As the students read the stories of others--different or alike from them, they will work to reflect on the story they are telling in their personal statements. As they work to revise the story they are telling, we hope that they consider how they communicate with others while expressing their identities. As readers and listeners of the world around us, it is important to learn about others' identities to see what we can learn about ourselves and our identity.
NYTimes Food Memories
Alex Tizon “My Family’s Slave”
Kincaid “Girl”
Sherman Alexie “What You Pawn I Will Redeem”
Tillie Olsen “I Stand Here Ironing”
Walker “Everyday Use”
Wild Tongue by Anzaldua
Annie Dilard “So This Was Adolescence”
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Brief explanation of Student Choice:
For every unit, you will be given a menu of assignments to complete. Like all menus, you can choose what you what you want to do! Every assignment has a point value assigned to it. There will be more options than need to be completed. For example, this unit has a total of 16 (in addition to the Student Choice Board), but you only need to complete 10pts worth by the end of the Unit on Oct. 2nd.
Student Choice Board: Some Wednesdays will be reserved for Student Choice Board work and conferences with me -- we will all be in the Meet together but working separately on different assignments. The assignments on the Student Choice board are enforcing the same skills as those on the Classwork/Homework menu but give you a little more choice on how you practice those skills.