![]() ![]() The Big Picture: Looking Within/Looking Beyond This vignette features a general overview of the unit I taught, with a focus on book clubs and responses to reading. Part of the values of the staff and the vision for the school is to promote social justice and tolerance. I taught my unit with 8th graders in a K-8 Spanish/English dual immersion charter school. We expanded our classroom libraries with an intentional global literature focus, benefiting current and future students. We checked in with each other throughout the project to see glimpses into how the units were unfolding, noticing similarities and differences between the two schools and three grades. While we each created a global literacy unit, we had flexibility to do so in a way that aligned with our individual school/classroom philosophies and the needs of our students. ![]() The books provided access to scenarios that students had not necessarily observed first hand in their rural, high poverty communities. We observed how utilizing global literature impacted students’ understanding of events and experiences throughout the world. ![]() Considering Identity through the Lenses of Literature and WritingÄuring the 2012-13 school year I participated in a global literacy community with colleagues in eastern Oregon focusing on using global literature as a means for students to expand their understandings of culture, both their own and those of others. ![]()
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