Resources for Teaching About Broken Families
Tangerine Lesson Plan
Graphic Life Map Lesson Plan - Using the Graphic Map online tool, students chart the high and low points in their lives. The tool can also be used to graph other items, such as events during a day, chapters in a book, or events in a story.
Article : A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways to Support Teachers in Meeting Students’ Needs
Cover to Cover: Comparing Books to Movies
Promoting Diversity in the Classroom and School Library through Social Action -- Students explore the effects of stereotypes by analyzing children’s books. Then they create bookmarks that encourage readers to question the assumptions of stereotyped books and to seek out matching, balanced texts.
Teens and Trauma -- Young adult literature about teens and trauma provides a window into mental illness and the toll it takes on young people. Stories of teens who are dealing with depression, anger, or the wish to die can be difficult to read, but they are important. They give voice to a particular kind of suffering, and they help us develop a deeper understanding of emotional pain. Just as important, they show us how people survive that pain and begin the process of healing. Tune in to hear about six new novels that focus on teens, trauma, and mental illness.
Children at risk in the Florida Juvenile System
Immigrant Justice -- Protecting the immigrant farm workers
Graphic Life Map Lesson Plan - Using the Graphic Map online tool, students chart the high and low points in their lives. The tool can also be used to graph other items, such as events during a day, chapters in a book, or events in a story.
Article : A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways to Support Teachers in Meeting Students’ Needs
Cover to Cover: Comparing Books to Movies
Promoting Diversity in the Classroom and School Library through Social Action -- Students explore the effects of stereotypes by analyzing children’s books. Then they create bookmarks that encourage readers to question the assumptions of stereotyped books and to seek out matching, balanced texts.
Teens and Trauma -- Young adult literature about teens and trauma provides a window into mental illness and the toll it takes on young people. Stories of teens who are dealing with depression, anger, or the wish to die can be difficult to read, but they are important. They give voice to a particular kind of suffering, and they help us develop a deeper understanding of emotional pain. Just as important, they show us how people survive that pain and begin the process of healing. Tune in to hear about six new novels that focus on teens, trauma, and mental illness.
Children at risk in the Florida Juvenile System
Immigrant Justice -- Protecting the immigrant farm workers