Language, Literacy and the Teaching of Writing
in Multicultural Settings


Required Texts

Please try to read as much as possible before class begins on Monday.
Please complete Lives on the Boundary before class on Monday.

  • Fecho, Bob. "Is This English?" Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom. NY: Teachers College Press, 2004.
  • Rose, Mike. Lives on the Boundary. NY: Penguin Press, 1989.
  • Schultz, Katherine. Listening: A Framework for Teaching Across Differences. NY: Teachers College Press.
  • A course pack of reading

Day-to-Day Schedule

June 14

  • Introduction to Class
  • Technology Workshop
  • Discuss Mike Rose's Lives on the Boundary
  • From course pack (Moss, "Intersections of Race and Class in the Academy")
  • On-line posting

June 15

  • Readings from Course pack (excerpts from Finn's Literacy with an Attitude)
  • On-line posting
  • Due: Rough Draft of Teacher-Literacy Narrative; Peer Response on drafts
  • Small groups meet

June 16

  • Discuss Fecho's Is This English?
  • On-line posting
  • Small groups meet
  • Computer time

June 17

  • Readings from Course pack (Skilton-Sylvester and Coykendall Rice essays in the morning; Brueggemann and Monroe essays in the afternoon)
  • On-line posting
  • Small groups meet
  • Computer time
  • Due: Reader-response

June 18

  • Discuss Schultz's Listening: A Framework for Teaching Across Differences
  • Group presentations (20 minutes each)
  • Due: Final Draft of Teacher-Literacy Narrative
 

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