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Countering the increased standardization of English language arts
instruction requires recognizing and fostering students' unique
identity construction across different social and cultural
contexts. Drawing on current sociocultural theories of identity
construction, this book posits that students construct multiple
identities through use of five identity practices: adopting
alternative perspectives, exploring connections across people and
texts, negotiating identities across social worlds, developing
agency through critical analysis, and reflecting on long-term
identity trajectories. Identity-Focused ELA Teaching features
classroom activities teachers can use to put these practices into
action in ways that re-center implementing the Common Core State
Standards; case-study profiles of students and classrooms from
urban, suburban, and rural schools adopting these practices; and
descriptions of how teachers both support students with this
instructional approach and share their own identity-construction
experiences with their students. It demonstrates how, as students
acquire identity-focused practices through engagements with
literature, writing, drama, and digital texts, they gain awareness
of the ways exposure to different narratives, beliefs, and
perspectives serves to mediate their own and others' identities,
leading to different ways of being and becoming over time.
Essays in this collection have been recently and prominently
published: "Still God Helps You: Memories of a Sudanese Child
Slave," first published in Wilson Quarterly (2013), was a Byliner
exclusive, recognized by The Atlantic as one of the year's
"Fantastic Pieces of Journalism," and nominated for a Pushcart
Prize. "Circle of Friends" was published in Amtrak's Arrive
magazine (July/August 2014). "A Solemn Pleasure" appeared in the
David Shields/Bradford Morrow anthology The Inevitable:
Contemporary Writers Confront Death. "Finding Ashton" and an
excerpt from "Doxology" appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine. Melissa
Pritchard is a prolific writer whose fiction and nonfiction has
been anthologized in over fifteen books and appeared in over sixty
literary journals. She is also an award-winning teacher of creative
writing at Arizona State University, and has amassed a devoted
following among her students. Pritchard's extraordinary
storytelling skills, developed as a fiction writer, lend themselves
perfectly to conveying the stories of her travels, spiritual
pursuits, historical research, and empathy for the people who have
crossed her path. Inaugural book in Bellevue Literary Press' new
The Art of the Essay series, with a Foreword by bestselling
novelist and Harvard University Director of Creative Writing Bret
Anthony Johnston.
Countering the increased standardization of English language arts
instruction requires recognizing and fostering students' unique
identity construction across different social and cultural
contexts. Drawing on current sociocultural theories of identity
construction, this book posits that students construct multiple
identities through use of five identity practices: adopting
alternative perspectives, exploring connections across people and
texts, negotiating identities across social worlds, developing
agency through critical analysis, and reflecting on long-term
identity trajectories. Identity-Focused ELA Teaching features
classroom activities teachers can use to put these practices into
action in ways that re-center implementing the Common Core State
Standards; case-study profiles of students and classrooms from
urban, suburban, and rural schools adopting these practices; and
descriptions of how teachers both support students with this
instructional approach and share their own identity-construction
experiences with their students. It demonstrates how, as students
acquire identity-focused practices through engagements with
literature, writing, drama, and digital texts, they gain awareness
of the ways exposure to different narratives, beliefs, and
perspectives serves to mediate their own and others' identities,
leading to different ways of being and becoming over time.
'A gorgeous, accomplished debut' David Mitchell By internationally
bestselling author Bret Anthony Johnston, WINNER of the Sunday
Times EFG Short Story Award 2017. In Corpus Christi, Texas - a town
often hit by hurricanes - parents, children, and lovers come
together and fall apart, bonded and battered by memories of loss
that they feel as acutely as physical pain. A car accident joins
strangers linked by an intimate knowledge of madness. A teenage boy
remembers his father's act of sudden and self-righteous violence. A
'hurricane party' reunites a couple whom tragedy parted. And, in an
unforgettable three-story cycle, an illness heals a man's
relationship with his mother and reveals the odd, shifting fidelity
of truth to love. Writing with tough humor, deep humanity, and a
keen eye for the natural environment, Bret Anthony Johnston creates
a world where cataclysmic events cut people loose from their
'regular lives, floating and spiraling away from where we had been
the day before.'
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