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Dreamseekers Creative Approaches to the African-American Heritage

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ISBN-10: 0435070452

ISBN-13: 9780435070458

Edition: 1997

Authors: Anita Manley, Cecily O'Neill

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Dreamseekers is an essential resource for elementary and secondary teachers who recognize the cultural diversity of today's classroom and the urgent need to validate minority voices. It is unique in addressing significant African-American themes, introducing models of excellence in multicultural teaching, and presenting creative teachers at work in authentic classrooms. These inspiring teachers offer a range of ideas for exploring African-American history, art, and literature through drama and role-play. They are courageous and prepared to examine topics and issues that may challenge mainstream values. Their students are roused to critical awareness and conscious engagement as they…    
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Book details

List price: $48.60
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 11/25/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.00" long x 0.41" tall
Weight: 0.594

Anita Manley teaches at The Ohio State University and works as a speech and language pathologist with the Columbus City Schools. She conducts workshops, both locally and nationally, on process drama in culturally diverse classrooms and has a particular interest in promoting communicative competence through the arts.

Neal A. Glasgow's experience includes serving as a secondary school science and art teacher both in California and New York, as a university biotechnology teaching laboratory director and laboratory technician, and as an educational consultant and frequent speaker on many educational topics. He is the author or coauthor of ten books on educational topics: What Successful Schools Do to Involve Families: Fifty Research-Based Strategies for Teachers and Administrators (2008), What Successful Literacy Teachers Do: 70 Research-Based Strategies for Teachers, Reading Coaches, and Instructional Planners (2007), What Successful Teachers Do in Diverse Classrooms: 71 Research-Based Strategies for New…    

Foreword
Introduction
Creativity in Practice
Incredible Journeys: From Manacles of Oppression to Mantles of Hope
Meeting "Hattie"
Everybody's History
Looking Back to Go Forward: Sharing Experiences Through the Arts
Postcards of the Hanging: 1869 African American Poetry, Drama, and Interpretation
Galimoto: Our Experience with an African Tale
Democracy and Empowerment: The Nashville Student Sit-Ins of the 1960s
Units for Development
Aspects of the Process
Unit 1: Southern Plantation
Unit 2: Exodus to Nicodemus
Unit 3: Migration
Unit 4: Responding to Poetry
Unit 5: Meeting Miss Tizzy
Unit 6: The Struggle for Justice: Responding to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Unit 7: Working with Play Scripts
Unit 8: Readers' Theatre
Bibliography
Contributors
Index