[MOSAIC] Race, Identity, Relationships and Literature

[ljackson]

I have three young teachers working with small groups of students in grades
5 through 8.  Each works within a small school with multi-level classrooms
and each school is isolated geographically from one another.  We are
designing an inquiry based literature unit which will use Blackboard
technology to facilitate lit groups across these classrooms.  The question
we have posed as central to the unit is:

How does race inform identity and impact relationships?

We are beginning to brainstorm novels which could be used with this study.
Here is what we have so far:

Iggy;s House
Maniac Magee
Edger Allen

Help!! In my former life, I was a first and second grade teacher.  Can you
help us build this list?  I would love to include a book in which there was
romance impacted by race, but it needs to be relatively tame.

Thank you all in advance!!
-- 
Lori Jackson
District Literacy Coach & Mentor
Todd County School District
Box 87
Mission SD  57555
 
http:www.tcsdk12.org
ph. 605.856.2211


Literacies for All Summer Institute
"Literate Lives:  A Human Right"
July 12-15, 2007
Louisville, Kentucky

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