1. Beyond the Canon: Reading the World in Schools<br />July 9, 2010<br />Works included in presentation:<br />Purple Hibuscus by Chimamanda AdichieJoy Luck Club by Amy TanTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeImagining Isabel 9 by Omar S.CastanedaFive Quarters of the Orange by Joanne HarrisPomegranate Soup by Marsha MehranThe Language of Baklava by Diana Abu-JaberThe Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food by Jennifer 8 LeeOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia MarquezHouse of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeWar of the Saints by Jorge AmadoLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesLost Names by Richard KimJia: A Novel of North Korea by Hyejin KimThe Guest by Hwang Sok-YongLand of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction<br />Resources for finding international texts:<br />World of Words/International Collection of Children and Adolescent Literature http://wowlit.org/<br />You will find many useful resources on this site for building bridges between cultures. These resources include multiple strategies for locating and evaluating culturally authentic international children’s and adolescent literature as well as ways of engaging students with these books in classrooms and libraries.<br />PEN: A Global Literary Community http://www.pen.org/<br />quot;
PEN is the voice of cultures truthfully addressing one another rather <br />than governments or armies in confrontation. The object is not to <br />win something, but to illuminate something.quot;
Arthur Miller<br />