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  • Science Leadership Academy - Beeber
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Our goal as English teachers is to create a curriculum that will challenge students to think critically as readers, engage them in literature, and explore material that they can connect back to their own lives. To do this, my colleagues and I have designed a curriculum for our 11th graders that first allows them to explore conceptions of masculinity in the world we live in, before our second unit dives into the women who take the patriarchy into their own hands and exact revenge on the men who cause them harm. We are asking you to help us purchase a class set of "Between the World and Me," Ta-Nehisi Coates' memoir and letter to his son about life as a Black man in today's America. This will be taught in the first half of the year in tandem with "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and "No Country for Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy. Each of these will require students to think critically about the ways in which various forms of masculinity are constructed, and how that masculinity intersects with other aspects of identity and culture. "Between the World and Me" is particularly relevant for my students given its emphasis on coming of age while Black in our current society. As a teacher, I strive to teach using both culturally relevant pedagogy and material, and this book is a fantastic way to connect students' lives to their literary work.

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Our goal as English teachers is to create a curriculum that will challenge students to think critically as readers, engage them in literature, and explore material that they can connect back to their own lives. To do this, my colleagues and I have designed a curriculum for our 11th graders that first allows them to explore conceptions of masculinity in the world we live in, before our second unit dives into the women who take the patriarchy into their own hands and exact revenge on the men who cause them harm. We are asking you to help us purchase a class set of "Between the World and Me," Ta-Nehisi Coates' memoir and letter to his son about life as a Black man in today's America. This will be taught in the first half of the year in tandem with "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and "No Country for Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy. Each of these will require students to think critically about the ways in which various forms of masculinity are constructed, and how that masculinity intersects with other aspects of identity and culture. "Between the World and Me" is particularly relevant for my students given its emphasis on coming of age while Black in our current society. As a teacher, I strive to teach using both culturally relevant pedagogy and material, and this book is a fantastic way to connect students' lives to their literary work.

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