eMedia & Ancillaries
A Guide to Teaching with Literacies
ISBN 0-393-97573-8
This comprehensive teaching resource offers ideas for planning a course, discussions of the book's major sections and features, and essays by three teachers describing their experience with Literacies in the classroom.
Assignment Sequences
The Assignment Sequences (provided below) combine selections in topical units that connect reading and writing in a progression of assignments. Sequences 1-5 address questions of literacy, while 6-13 treat other thematic and disciplinary questions. In every sequence, students receive guidance in developing their interpretive and analytical skills.
1. The Social Contexts of Literacy
- Andrea R. Fishman - Becoming Literate: A Lesson from the Amish
- Shirley Brice Heath - Literate Traditions
- Robert Scholes - On Reading a Video Text
- Nancy Scheper-Hughes - The Anthropological Looking Glass
2. Reading the Structure of Texts
- James Clifford - Incidents of Tourism in Chiapas & Yucatan
- David Gilmore - Performative Excellence: Circum-Mediterranean
- Nawal el-Saadawi - Love and Sex in the Life of the Arab
3. Objects and Subjects in the Academy
- Steven Rose - Observing and Intervening
- Nancy Scheper-Hughes - The Anthropological Looking-Glass
- Frank Black Elk - Observations on Marxism and Lakota Tradition
- Victor Seidler - Language and Masculinity
- Barbara Mellix - From Outside, In
4. Ideas of Assimilation
- Liliana Heker - The Stolen Party
- Alice Walker - Everyday Use
- Barbara Mellix - From Outside, In
- Maxine Hong Kingston - No Name Woman
- Robert Bellah et al. - Community, Commitment, and Individuality
- Stuart Ewen - Chosen People
- Andrea R. Fishman - Becoming Literate: A Lesson from the Amish
5. Cultural Bridges and Boundaries
- Barbara Mellix - From Outside, In
- Renato Rosaldo - Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage
- Flavio Risech - Political and Cultural Cross-Dressing: Negotiating a Second Generation Cuban-American Identity
- Jennifer J. Cobb - Cybergrace: The Search for God in the Digital World
6. Conserving Acts: Preserving Social Values
- Ann Feinup-Riordan - Yup’ik Lives and How We See Them
- Andrea R. Fishman - Becoming Literate: A Lesson from the Amish
- Robert Bellah et al. - Community, Commitment, and Individuality
- James Baldwin - Down at the Cross
- Adrienne Rich - Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying
7. Questions of Fairness
- Maya Angelou - "Mary"
- Liliana Heker - The Stolen Party
- David P. Schmidt - Ethics on Wall Street
8. Power and Knowledge in Everyday Life
- Howard Brody, M.D. - The Social Power of Expert Healers
- Barbara Garson - McDonald’sóWe Do It All for You
- Maxine Hong Kingston - No Name Woman
- Liliana Heker - The Stolen Party
9. Family in Context
- Alistair MacLeod - The Vastness of the Dark
- Adrienne Rich - Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying
- Flavio Risech - Political and Cultural Cross-Dressing: Negotiating a Second Generation Cuban-American Identity
- Maxine Hong Kingston - No Name Woman
10. Minds and Matter: Thinking About Things
- Steven Rose … Observing and Intervening
- Stuart Ewen … Chosen People
- Frank Black Elk … Observations on Marxism and Lakota Tradition
- Jennifer J. Cobb … Cybergrace: The Search for God in the Digital World
- David P. Schmidt … Ethics on Wall Street
11. The Meanings of Work
- Bruno Bettelheim - The Ignored Lesson of Anne Frank
- Howard Brody, M.D. - The Social Power of Expert Healers
- Stuart Ewen - Chosen People
- Ann Fienup-Riordan - Yup’ik Lives and How We See Them
- Barbara Garson - McDonald’sóWe Do It All for You
- Lynda Workman - The Experience of Policy
12. Thinking Critically about History: Using the Past in the Present
- Bruno Bettelheim - The Ignored Lesson of Anne Frank
- Jimmie Durham - Those Dead Guys for a Hundred Years
- Brian Ladd - Berlin Walls
- Alice Walker - Everyday Use
- Cornel West and Wynton Marsalis - Jazz, Hope, and Democracy
13. Crediting Sources and Clearing Spaces
- Katherine Tinsley and Carl F. Kaestle - Autobiographies and the History of Reading: The Meaning of Literacy in Individual Lives
- Lynda Workman - The Experience of Policy
- David Gilmore - Performative Excellence: Circum-Mediterranean
- Anne Fienup-Riordan - Yup'ik Lives and How We See Them
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