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I strive to provide a classroom that has a variety of texts that expose students to authors or characters with which they can identify. As a World Literature teacher I will be including a unit on African Colonialism this year and my hope is to connect my students to the core text by giving them independent reading opportunities that explore the impact of what they are studying.
My students are engaged and encouraged by the opportunity to apply what they learn about at school to their current world, discovering what impacts they and their generation have the opportunity to impart.
Students will choose from these books to independently read works that relate to our core class text, Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart." In our literary circles, students will discuss the inter-textual connections that can be made between their texts and Achebe's work, as well as among their different independent reading texts. Students will identify universal themes among the texts and make connections between those themes and current global issues.
Through this experience of multiple perspectives, students will explore the concept of diaspora and gain a better understanding of how historical events and oppression affect culture, identity, and environment.
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I strive to provide a classroom that has a variety of texts that expose students to authors or characters with which they can identify. As a World Literature teacher I will be including a unit on African Colonialism this year and my hope is to connect my students to the core text by giving them independent reading opportunities that explore the impact of what they are studying.
My students are engaged and encouraged by the opportunity to apply what they learn about at school to their current world, discovering what impacts they and their generation have the opportunity to impart.
Students will choose from these books to independently read works that relate to our core class text, Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart." In our literary circles, students will discuss the inter-textual connections that can be made between their texts and Achebe's work, as well as among their different independent reading texts. Students will identify universal themes among the texts and make connections between those themes and current global issues.
Through this experience of multiple perspectives, students will explore the concept of diaspora and gain a better understanding of how historical events and oppression affect culture, identity, and environment.