Peer reviewed
Direct linkERIC Number: EJ1439699
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Mar
Pages: 6
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-8274
EISSN: EISSN-2161-8895
Using Nonfiction to Enhance Our Teaching of Literature
Audrey A. Fisch; Susan Chenelle
English Journal, v105 n4 p31-36 2016
The authors used vocabulary activities, photographs, group work, and writing with tenth-grade students to unpack a commission report on violence associated with housing desegregation in 1950s Chicago to deepen students' engagement with Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun."
Descriptors: Nonfiction, Grade 10, Language Arts, Consciousness Raising, Racism, Housing, Racial Segregation, United States History, African American History, Vocabulary, Photography, Student Attitudes, Group Activities
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Grade 10; High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Illinois (Chicago)
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