This guide is divided into chapters and supporting appendices. Where to begin?! Below are links to and descriptions of each.
Chapter 1 - Front Matter: Supplies an overview of the guide, its focus, and its authors
Chapter 2 - Curriculum foundations: Identifies the educational standards, theory, and pedagogy that are foundational to the curriculum
Chapter 3 - Curriculum components: Describes the anchor components and supporting activities.
Chapter 4 - Curriculum planning: Guides decisions about the curriculum’s fit within a content area, delivery formats, pacing, and the acquisition of novels.
Chapter 5 - Curriculum implementation: Provides details for implementing each of the curriculum’s components, associated lesson plans, and other supporting activities.
Chapter 6 - Curriculum assessment & evaluation: Offers direction for assessing students and evaluating the impact of the curriculum.
Chapter 7 - Quality control: Promotes quality control in relation to social justice education, text-based content acquisition and critical thinking, and mastery-based instruction.
Chapter 8 - Additional resources & references: Equips teachers with resources and references to go deeper into the theoretical and pedagogical foundation of the curriculum.
Appendices
Curriculum matrix: Reveals the curriculum’s alignment with standards and theoretical concepts
Novel list: List of novels and resource links used in one iteration of the curriculum
Master list of prompts: Includes all prompts for journals and discussions.
Pre/post-test: Tool to evaluate the impact of the curriculum
Sample syllabus: A sample syllabus for distribution to students, parents, or others
Exemplar parallel curriculum: Exemplifies how the curriculum parallels content area instruction
Sample book talk slides: Contains images of sample book talk slides to introduce the novels