Complete Table Of Contents
"Rethinking Our Classrooms" is divided into six main sections. Click on the section heading to jump directly to that section below. Click here to view the ROC2 Table of Contents in pdf format, or, return to the ROC2 home page.
Introduction — 1
- The Power of Words — 5
The Power of Words
- Where I'm From: Inviting Students' Lives into the Classroom — 6
by Linda Christensen - "Where I'm From" — 6
by George Ella Lyon - "I Am From Soul Food and Harriet Tubman" — 8
by Lealonni Blake - "I Am From Pink Tights and Speak Your Mind" — 9
by Djamila Moore - "I Am From . . ." — 10
by Oretha Storey - "I Am From Swingsets and Jungle Gyms" — 10
by Debby Gordon - An International Proverbs Project — 11
by Jim Cummins and Dennis Sayers - "Race" — 15
by Cang Dao - For My People — 16
by Linda Christensen - What Color Is Beautiful? — 18
by Alejandro Segura-Mora - Ebonics and Culturally Responsive Instruction — 22
by Lisa Delpit - Exploring Black Cultural Issues — 27
by Bakari Chavanu - "Ode to Writing" — 31
by Jessica Rawlins - "I am Proud to Be Bilingual" — 32
by Monica Thao
The Power of the Past
- Unsung Heroes — 34
by Howard Zinn - Teaching About Unsung Heroes — 37
by Bill Bigelow - Discovering the Truth about Helen Keller — 42
by James Loewen - On the Road to Cultural Bias — 45
by Bill Bigelow - Fiction Posing as Truth — 57
by Debbie Reese, et al. - Rethinking the U.S. Constitutional Convention: A Role Play — 63
by Bob Peterson - A New U.S. Bill of Rights — 70
by Larry Miller - "Waiting at the Railroad Cafe" — 72
by Janet Wong - A Lesson on the Japanese-American Internment — 73
by Mark Sweeting - "In Response to Executive Order 9066" — 75
by Dwight Okita - What the Tour Guide Didn't Tell Me — 76
by Wayne Au
The Power of Critique
- Ten Chairs of Inequality — 82
by Polly Kellogg - Teaching Math Across the Curriculum — 84
by Bob Peterson - Percent as a Tool for Social Justice — 89
by Bob Peterson - The Human Lives Behind the Labels — 91
by Bill Bigelow - "The Stitching Shed" — 100
by Tho Dong - Bias and CD-ROM Encyclopedias — 101
by Bob Peterson - Where's the 'R' Word? — 105
by Bob Peterson - Girls, Worms, and Body Image — 107
by Kate Lyman - Math, Maps, and Misrepresentation — 112
by Eric Gutstein
The Power of Social Action
- "We Had Set Ourselves Free" — 116
by Doug Sherman - From Snarling Dogs to Bloody Sunday — 119
by Kate Lyman - Mississippi Freedom Schools — 126
by David Levine - Improvs and Civil Rights — 134
by Bill Bigelow - The Poetry of Protest — 135
by Linda Christensen - "Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits" — 136
by Martín Espada - A Bill of Rights for Girls — 138
by Mary Blalock - The Trial — 140
by Kate Lyman - Students Blow the Whistle on Toxic Oil Contamination — 144
by Larry Miller and Danah Opland-Dobs - "Garbage" — 146
by Bill Steele, Mike Agranoff, and Pete Seeger - AIDS — "You Can Die From It" — 149
by Kate Lyman - "at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989" — 154
by Lucille Clifton
Rethinking School Culture
- When Things Turn Ugly — 156
by Donn Harris - Rethinking Discipline — 160
by Jehanne Helena Beaton - Creating Classroom Community — 163
by Beverly Braxton - A Mother Speaks Out — 167
by Leslie Sadasivan - Teaching the Whole Story — 168
by Kate Lyman - Playing Favorites — 176
by Mara Sapon-Shevin - Black Teachers on Teaching — 181
by Michele Foster - School System Shock — 186
by Melony Swasey - Arranged Marriages, Rearranged Ideas — 188
by Stan Karp - Out Front — 194
by Annie Johnston - Staying Past Wednesday — 199
by Kate Lyman - "Earth's Last Cry" — 202
by Rachel M. Knudsen
Rethinking Assessment
- Why the Testing Craze Won't Fix Our Schools — 204
by the Editors of Rethinking Schools - Basketball and Portfolios — 207
by Linda Christensen - One Size Fits Few — 211
by Susan Ohanian - Tracking and the Project Method — 214
by Bob Peterson - Motivating Students to do Quality Work — 219
by Bob Peterson - Resources — 225
- Poetry Teaching Guide — 240
by Linda Christensen - Index — 242