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Rethinking Our Classrooms Volume 2Complete Table Of Contents
"Rethinking Our Classrooms" is divided into the seven sections shown below.
Introduction The Power of Words The Power of the Past The Power of Critique The Power of Social Action Rethinking School Culture Rethinking Assessment
Introduction
The Power of Words
l Where I'm From: Inviting Students' Lives into the Classroom — 6 by Linda Christensen
l "Where I'm From" — 6 by George Ella Lyon
l "I Am From Soul Food and Harriet Tubman" — 8 by Lealonni Blake
l "I Am From Pink Tights and Speak Your Mind" — 9 by Djamila Moore
l "I Am From . . ." — 10 by Oretha Storey
l "I Am From Swingsets and Jungle Gyms" — 10 by Debby Gordon
l An International Proverbs Project — 11 by Jim Cummins and Dennis Sayers
l "Race" — 15 by Cang Dao
l For My People — 16 by Linda Christensen
l What Color Is Beautiful? — 18 by Alejandro Segura-Mora
l Ebonics and Culturally Responsive Instruction — 22 by Lisa Delpit
l Exploring Black Cultural Issues — 27 by Bakari Chavanu
l "Ode to Writing" — 31 by Jessica Rawlins
l "I am Proud to Be Bilingual" — 32 by Monica Thao
The Power of the Past
l Unsung Heroes — 34
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by Howard Zinn l Teaching About Unsung Heroes — 37
by Bill Bigelow l Discovering the Truth about Helen Keller — 42
by James Loewen l On the Road to Cultural Bias — 45
by Bill Bigelow l Fiction Posing as Truth — 57
by Debbie Reese, et al. l Rethinking the U.S. Constitutional Convention: A Role Play — 63
by Bob Peterson l A New U.S. Bill of Rights — 70
by Larry Miller l "Waiting at the Railroad Cafe" — 72
by Janet Wong l A Lesson on the Japanese-American Internment — 73
by Mark Sweeting l "In Response to Executive Order 9066" — 75
by Dwight Okita l What the Tour Guide Didn't Tell Me — 76
by Wayne Au
The Power of Critique
l Ten Chairs of Inequality — 82 by Polly Kellogg
l Teaching Math Across the Curriculum — 84 by Bob Peterson
l Percent as a Tool for Social Justice — 89 by Bob Peterson
l The Human Lives Behind the Labels — 91 by Bill Bigelow
l "The Stitching Shed" — 100 by Tho Dong
l Bias and CD-ROM Encyclopedias — 101 by Bob Peterson
l Where's the 'R' Word? — 105 by Bob Peterson
l Girls, Worms, and Body Image — 107 by Kate Lyman
l Math, Maps, and Misrepresentation — 112 by Eric Gutstein
The Power of Social Action
l "We Had Set Ourselves Free" — 116 by Doug Sherman
l From Snarling Dogs to Bloody Sunday — 119 by Kate Lyman
l Mississippi Freedom Schools — 126 by David Levine
l Improvs and Civil Rights — 134 by Bill Bigelow
l The Poetry of Protest — 135 by Linda Christensen
l "Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits" — 136 by Martín Espada
l A Bill of Rights for Girls — 138 by Mary Blalock
l The Trial — 140 by Kate Lyman
l Students Blow the Whistle on Toxic Oil Contamination — 144
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by Larry Miller and Danah Opland-Dobs l "Garbage" — 146
by Bill Steele, Mike Agranoff, and Pete Seeger l AIDS — "You Can Die From It" — 149
by Kate Lyman l "at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989" — 154
by Lucille Clifton
Rethinking School Culture
l When Things Turn Ugly — 156 by Donn Harris
l Rethinking Discipline — 160 by Jehanne Helena Beaton
l Creating Classroom Community — 163 by Beverly Braxton
l A Mother Speaks Out — 167 by Leslie Sadasivan
l Teaching the Whole Story — 168 by Kate Lyman
l Playing Favorites — 176 by Mara Sapon-Shevin
l Black Teachers on Teaching — 181 by Michele Foster
l School System Shock — 186 by Melony Swasey
l Arranged Marriages, Rearranged Ideas — 188 by Stan Karp
l Out Front — 194 by Annie Johnston
l Staying Past Wednesday — 199 by Kate Lyman
l "Earth's Last Cry" — 202 by Rachel M. Knudsen
Rethinking Assessment
l Why the Testing Craze Won't Fix Our Schools — 204 by the Editors of Rethinking Schools
l Basketball and Portfolios — 207 by Linda Christensen
l One Size Fits Few — 211 by Susan Ohanian
l Tracking and the Project Method — 214 by Bob Peterson
l Motivating Students to do Quality Work — 219 by Bob Peterson
l Resources — 225 l Poetry Teaching Guide — 240
by Linda Christensen l Index — 242
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