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Liberation Lit: Book Reviews

Banned Books Week is Sept. 22 to 28, 2024. Learning can help us to resist hate and bias and counter limited narratives that have traditionally excluded diverse perspectives.

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Reading Together: Books for Children
Reading for Justice: Books for Teens and Young Adults

September 23, 2024

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September 19, 2018

The Brett Kavanaugh Controversy Has Inspired a Dangerous Defense

Calls for due process are understandable. But dismissing allegations of sexual assault as typical teenage behavior sends a dangerous message to all young people.

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

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Informational

Deaf Culture

In her article, Paula Kluth takes care to distinguish between the deaf, Deaf, and hard of hearing communities. Both medical and cultural views on the different groups are discussed.

Paula Kluth

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Ability

January 5, 2015

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May 22, 2019

Arthur’s Gay Teacher and Other Stories Schools Won’t Tell

Mr. Ratburn, of the cartoon 'Arthur,' marries Patrick in a scene from the show.

Local PBS networks’ refusal to air an episode of a children’s show featuring the marriage of two men speaks to a larger problem in our society—and our schools.

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

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Informational

In this story, the parents of three children decide not to tell people the gender of the third child in an effort to avoid promoting stereotypes. Instead, they allow the child to be a person rather than a pretty girl who wears pink or a strong boy who wears blue.

Tamera Bryant

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

Subject

Civics

July 9, 2014

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Informational

Nashville Convention Speech (1850)

In this excerpt, Robert Rhett addresses the consequences of southern states not seceding. In the speech he touches on the topics of emancipation, northern rule and westward expansion.

Robert Rhett

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

December 15, 2017

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Informational

War with Mexico

In his editorial, Douglass argues that the Mexican War was a mechanism to expand slavery.

Frederick Douglass

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

January 5, 2018

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October 10, 2019

Support LGBTQ Students and Educators as Our Rights Are Decided

Two people holding hands in front of a rainbow flag.

As the Supreme Court hears cases to decide whether federal law protects LGBTQ people from employment discrimination, one queer educator explains how his colleagues can be accomplices in the fight for LGBTQ civil rights.

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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Issue 59, Summer 2018

The Opioid Crisis

Addiction can suffocate a community—especially its youngest members. But schools that employ trauma-informed practices are giving childhood victims of the opioid epidemic a fighting chance.

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Summary Objective 5

Students will describe the roles that slavery, Native nations and African Americans played in the Revolutionary War. Maps to Key Concepts 2, 3, 5, 9 & 10 What else should my students know? 5.A The Declaration of

December 18, 2017

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