Disciplinary Text Set
I recently was placed at a high school for the next two upcoming semesters. I will be assisting and student teaching Milwaukee School of the Arts. I have met my mentor teacher, and I will be in a classroom full of high school seniors. Below I have included a text set, that could be valuable to the classroom and being a representative body of work. It has an amalgamation of poetry, novels, film trailers, performative poetry, and ted talks. All of which center on the idea of acceptance, being a part of a community, representation, and understanding the capabilities that a person has within themselves. While they may seem like they are pulling at different themes and in a variety of ways, but they all point to the theme at the very heart of the content. Allowing the students to connect with a different theme in various ways is important to feeling represented, and to being able to analyze and understand an eclectic collection of texts. If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin (Nove...