Tag Archives: Immigrant

2021 Curriculum Units Vol 1: Southern Children's Literature

Adjusting to a New Life in the South

Jacqueline Balmas, 5th Grade, Clear Creek Elementary

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2019 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Africa: Beneath the Headlines

Building Bridges: Using Children’s Literature to Explore Global Migration

Megan Koransky, Media Skills, Bain Elementary

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2018 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Teaching Human Rights

Retaining Identity through Assimilation

Melanie Jolley, Language Arts, Windsor Park Elementary

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2018 Curriculum Units Vol 7: Insights into Latino Communities

My Heritage: Guiding Students On A Path Towards Self Discovery and Personal History

Mary Lacey Holmes, Social Studies, Garinger High School

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2018 Curriculum Units Vol 7: Insights into Latino Communities

“The Largest Versions of Ourselves”: Interrogating and Expanding Latina/o Identity In the Middle School English Language Arts Classroom Through Julia Alvarez’s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Kenan Brett Kerr, English, Whitewater Middle School

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2017 Curriculum Units Vol 4: Memorials, Memories, and American Identity

New York City’s Garment Industry: The Tired, Poor, and Forgotten Masses

Wendy Potter, Apparel Production, Butler High School

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2016 Curriculum Units Vol 8: Exploring Memoir - From Picture Book to Digital Story

Coming to America: Immigrant Stories from Across the World

Rebecca Lintz, ESL, East Mecklenburg High school

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2014 Curriculum Units Vol 7: Visual Storytelling in Children's and Young Adult literature

Multiculturalism Through a Child’s Eyes

Danielle Gregory, Fifth Grade, Albemarle Road Elementary School

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