PRAXIS Presentation: Curriculum Specialist Program

1. More Than
“Exiles”
A Multicultural Book Club + Service Learning
Project for English 10.

2. Contents
Introduction
The basis of the project and the selected
books/selection process
01
Logistics
Setting up Literature Circles for high school
and Service Learning Projects
02
The Service Learning Project
The plan and the organization we hope to
work with
03
Reflection
What did I learn?
04

3. Project Basis
“The Why”
Experiences as a student--Latin
Teacher
Experiences as a teacher--World Lit.
The Action Plan
● Create a unit within my school’s tenth grade world literature curriculum that
includes both fiction and nonfiction perspectives of displacement and the
process of immigration and asylum seeking. I plan to propose this unit, as
well as a service learning project that facilitates a partnership between my
classes, the school's diversity club, and a clothing/book drive in order to
present real life application of learning.
The Research
The research I found discusses the impact of
both the positive and negative effects of the way
students see (or don’t see) themselves
represented in media and literature
The Initial Difficulties
My school’s literary selection process
became a factor as I was thinking
through realistic implementation

4. Selected Titles
Salt Houses
By Hala Alyan
01
Enrique’s Journey
By Sonia Nazario
03
How the Garcia Girls Lost
Their Accents
By Julia Alvarez
02
Americanah
By Chimamanda Adichie
04

5. Day 2
Students choose books and get
into groups to develop a
self-paced reading schedule.
Day 4
Book Club Meeting: Group
Ambassadors observe one other
group
Day 6
Reading/Research Day
Day 1
Introduce students to the main ideas of
the unit and to the books. Show “Storage
Wars” from One Day at A Time
Day 3
Reading Day + A 10-15 minute “lesson
time” to introduce book club roles and
the service learning project.
Day 5
Research Day: Students work on
their research roles and on
reading
Daily Plan

6. Day 8
Quiz: Prompt determined based
on students’ self-pacing decisions
Day 10
Reading/Research Day
--Students implement their project
goals
Day 12
Reading day/working to finish
“promotional materials”
Day 7
Book Club Meeting: Group
Ambassadors observe one other
group
Day 9
Reading Day + Book Club
Meetings
Day 11
Students continue to implement
their project goals by making their
“promotional materials”
Daily Plan

7. Day 14
Students use class time to distribute
their promotional materials (hanging
posters, posting videos, etc.)
Day 16
Students check the set-up questions
email account and answer + Finish
the books.
Day 18-19
Seminars based on books and the
project.
Day 13
Reading day + students use class
time to prepare to speak to
community building classes
Day 15
Students check the set-up questions
email account and answer + Reading
day
Day 17
Students collect letters from
Community Building groups.
Students write reflections about
their book and the service
learning project.
Daily Plan

8. Service Learning Project
Ex: Poster
Ex: Titles
Rubric
Group Roles
Parent Letter
After reading and research, students come up with
titles of both English books and Books in other
languages.
Students plan and make “promotional
materials”
Students visit other classes to get the
school involved
Students monitor and document
donations
Students reflect on the work they have
done through writing and seminars.

9. Choice Org. and Facts

10. Idea vs. Implementation
Idea
My original idea had
students working with
the diversity club.
Implementation
After researching
organizations, I
decided that the
Spanish Club would be
a better fit for helping
with this project.

11. Reflection
Conflicts
Where are the potential
problems?
Service
Interview: What do
students want the
point of learning to be?
Books
What kind of
representation do
students need?
Ultimately
My hopes for the
future

12. In Conclusion: Thinking “Arc”
01 04
03
02
The Cannon
How do we include
diverse stories while
still adhering to the
“cannon”?
Etc.
-Disconnect between
what parents want
students to learn and
what students
think/believe.
Lit Circle +
Research
(Positive)
Representation
Matters
Future Focus
-Book Clubs
-Library Diversity
-Working with school
clubs.

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