LL ED561 - Cultural Pluralism in Children's and Adolescent Literature

Summer 2013, Section 001 - 3.0 Credits
Schedule Number 149941

Important Dates

Reg Period: 2/4/2013 - 6/15/2013
First Day of Class: 6/12/2013
End of Class: 7/24/2013

Course Description

Reading/discussing literature from multicultural/critical multiculturallenses and how this impacts literacy.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for the course.

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Remarks

For students who plan to graduate this semester, please communicate your intent to graduate to your instructor. This will alert your instructor to the need to submit your final grade in time to meet the published graduation deadlines. "The Little Engine That Could" is not available at MBS. You are welcome to obtain the other required texts from sources other than MBS (like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, your local library, etc.)

There are nine pairs of readings below; you are required to read one selection from each pairing:

1. Sitti's Secrets OR Coming To America: A Muslim Family's Story
2. Dragon's Gates OR My China Town
3. Esperanza Rising OR Down to the Bone
4. Letters From Rifka OR A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life
5. Ten Little Rabbits OR Shin Chi's Canoe
   
6. Chinese Handcuffs OR The Perks of Being a Wallflower OR Skinny
7. The Hunger Games OR Which Side Are You On?
   
8. Marcelo in the Real World OR Out of My Mind
9. I Was Dreaming to Come to America Memories From The Ellis Island Oral History OR Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories of the Dark Side of American Immigration
10. Locomotion OR Jazz Baby
    

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