NEH Summer Institute 2005
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Held at George Mason University July 5–29 2005, this program brought secondary-school teachers together to learn about African-American literature and prepare to teach it to their students.
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Item Teaching African-American literature: holistically and in bits and pieces(2006-05-19T13:54:29Z) Jones, MarlinItem More than slaves: African-American cultural expression in 18th and 19th century America(2006-03-15T21:02:19Z) Black, Dawniell K.Item Struggling for Visibility(2006-02-23T16:02:49Z) Prosser, TimItem Brief Bibliography of Black Vernacular English, A(2006-02-23T15:58:35Z) Nelson, LindaItem The Ghost in the Machine of Secondary English/Language Arts(2006-01-30T19:56:50Z) Brewington, Paulette F.Item Seeming versus Being(2006-01-30T19:53:31Z) Kavanagh, PatriciaItem Sophomore English (Complexity and Significance of Language)(2006-01-18T14:58:03Z) Coldren, PatriciaThe primary goal of this unit is to teach students the complexity and significance of language, its uses and abuses, our reactions to it, and the socioeconomic pressures that influence it.Item Three Phases of Narration, The(2006-01-18T14:55:40Z) Beavers, HermanItem Understanding the Quest for Freedom through Radical Rhetorical Language(2006-01-18T14:22:08Z) Johnson, Carrie L.Item Telling Stories(2006-01-18T14:16:32Z) English, KarenItem A Classroom's African American Museum of Narrative, 1600-1900(2006-01-18T14:13:07Z) Lindesmith, AbigailItem Abolitionist Writing and Oratory(2006-01-18T14:06:58Z) Larkin, CynthiaPurpose of Unit: Students will garner knowledge about the written and oratorical methods that African Americans used as a way to obtain their freedom and abolish the institution of slavery.Item Additional materials for "Slavery in the United States: Resistance Through Literacy" unit(2005-12-21T17:18:47Z) Silberman, RebeccaItem Additional Texts(2005-12-21T17:13:05Z) Silberman, Rebecca; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826Item Excerpts from Ar'n't I a Woman?(2005-12-21T16:51:45Z) Silberman, Rebecca; Truth, Sojourner, d. 1883; Gage, FrancesItem Passages from the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass(2005-12-21T16:40:44Z) Silberman, Rebecca; Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895Item Passages from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl(2005-12-21T16:37:49Z) Silberman, Rebecca; Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897.Item Slavery in the United States: Resistance through Literacy(2005-12-21T16:31:56Z) Silberman, RebeccaItem Africa to America: Creating an Inclusive Curriculum(2005-12-21T16:23:10Z) Hill, Josephine D.Item A Quest for Freedom and Reform(2005-12-21T16:10:55Z) McCurley, Janis