The 57 Bus by Meredith Irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/bbrwj2uwc6yl Essential Question en-us 2018-11-12 17:37:25 UTC 2018-11-18 20:31:05 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png What Do We Do with a Difference? meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/bbrwj2uwc6yl/wish/303562875
Purpose: The story surrounding the incident on the The 57 Bus has a lot to do with how people perceive and deal with difference. This poem will help students consider the various ways in which we react to difference, and the choices we could potentially make vs. the ones we often make in the moment. 
Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
Potential Classroom Use: As a pre-reading activity, students can read and analyze the poem, and then reflect in their journal about how verbs in the poem connects to a time you experienced difference. After students start reading the book, they can make a map or visual with how characters are dealing with difference.
Further Information: Facing History Resources
Citation: What Do We Do with a Difference? (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-and-human-behavior/chapter-2/what-do-we-do-difference

]]> 2018-11-13 04:00:02 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/bbrwj2uwc6yl/wish/303562875 Audience & Standards meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/bbrwj2uwc6yl/wish/303563232 Audience: 9th grade ELA

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.6 Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.9 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.1 Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9-10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
]]> 2018-11-13 04:03:12 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/bbrwj2uwc6yl/wish/303563232 Essential Question meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/bbrwj2uwc6yl/wish/303563442 How does this story complicate your understanding of the intersections of race, class, and gender in Oakland? ]]> 2018-11-13 04:04:45 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/bbrwj2uwc6yl/wish/303563442 Ted Talk: The Danger of the Single Story meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/bbrwj2uwc6yl/wish/303563811 Purpose: One of the major themes in The 57 Bus is how important it is to consider the context behind situations, and to question our implicit biases. In this talk, novelist Chimamanda Adichie warns that if we only hear a single story, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
Potential Classroom Use: This video would be a great pre-reading and contracting exercise.  After watching the video as a class, students could reflect on a time when they were stereotyped or understood as a "single story".
Further Information: Adichie's website
Citation: Adichie, C. N. (n.d.). The danger of a single story. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story?language=en]]> 2018-11-13 04:08:07 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/bbrwj2uwc6yl/wish/303563811 What gentrification in Oakland, California, sounds like meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/bbrwj2uwc6yl/wish/303564123 Purpose: This interactive audio map, created by young people working for YouthRadio, provides interviews from longtime West Oakland residents about their experiences of gentrification and the displacement of African Americans in Oakland. West Side Stories serves as an important lens for exploring the rapidly changing landscape of Oakland.
Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.1
Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9-10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
Potential Classroom Use: Using a microlab protocol, students will work in small groups to explore the map and listen to the interviews of different Oakland residents. After recording evidence of the range of perspectives around African American displacement and gentrification, students will hold a group academic discussion and discuss their findings and further questions.
Further Information: Youth Radio's West Side Stories
Citation: Gentrification in West Oakland. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://youthradio.github.io/]]> 2018-11-13 04:10:50 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/bbrwj2uwc6yl/wish/303564123 The Pulse of Oakland: Stories on the intersection of health, wealth and race in Oakland neighborhoods. meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/bbrwj2uwc6yl/wish/303564384 Purpose: One of the major themes of The 57 Bus is how multiple worlds can exist in one place. This article incorporates a range of interviews, maps, and videos to explore the intersection of health, wealth and race in Oakland neighborhoods. It illustrates how wealth and good health are often concentrated in certain parts of the city.

Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.1
Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9-10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.1
Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.

Potential Classroom Use: Students can

Further Information: 
Citation 
]]> 2018-11-13 04:13:05 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/bbrwj2uwc6yl/wish/303564384 The ABCs of L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/bbrwj2uwc6yl/wish/303564570 Purpose: Part 1 of The 57 Bus tells Sasha's story, and Slater describes Sasha's personal journey through their gender and sexual identity. This glossary can serve as an important companion text and resource and resource for students as they navigate through Sasha's story.
Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
Potential Classroom Use: Teachers can use the glossary to help students better understand the ever-evolving language and terminology around gender and sexuality. Before reading Sasha's section, students preview the glossary and then apply the terms in writing as they move through their story.
Further Information: NYTime's LGBTQ Pride 2018 Stories & Resources
Citation: Gold, M. (2018, June 21). The ABCs of L.G.B.T.Q.I.A. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/style/lgbtq-gender-language.html]]> 2018-11-13 04:14:54 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/bbrwj2uwc6yl/wish/303564570 Caught Podcast meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/bbrwj2uwc6yl/wish/303564730 Purpose: In telling Richard's side of the story, Dashka Slater presents a critique of the juvenile justice system and asks the reader to rethinking their perceptions of crime and punishment. "Caught" explores how although all teenagers make stupid decisions, depending on your zip code, race, or just bad luck, those mistakes can have a lasting impact. Mass incarceration starts young. In "Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice", we hear from kids about the moment they collided with law and order, and how it changed them forever.
Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.1
Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9-10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
Potential Classroom Use: Students can listen to excerpts from the "Caught" in order to help prepare for a Socratic Seminar about juvenile justice after reading Part 4: Justice.
Further Information: NPR's KQED resources
Citation: Caught. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.npr.org/podcasts/589480586/caught]]> 2018-11-13 04:16:18 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/bbrwj2uwc6yl/wish/303564730 The 57 Bus meredith_a_irby https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/bbrwj2uwc6yl/wish/303576468 Dashka Slater's The 57 Bus presents the story behind a 2013 incident where a black Oakland High school student (Richard) lit an agender student's (Sasha) skirt on fire. This incredible story goes above and beyond the headlines to reveal the complexity of the lives of these two young people, and asks us to rethink our notions of justice and forgiveness. In doing so, Slater compels us to reconsider what might seem like a simple conflict, and to make connections between the intersections of class, race, and gender in a rapidly shifting Oakland. ]]> 2018-11-13 05:52:12 UTC https://padlet.com/meredith_a_irby/bbrwj2uwc6yl/wish/303576468