Full Description
Veteran teacher and writer Julie Landsman takes the reader through a day of teaching and reflection about her work with a group of ethically and racially diverse high school students in an inner city school.
Contents
Part 1 Introduction Our Changing World: A Cause for Celebration
Chapter 2 1 Before School: What I Bring
Chapter 3 2 Waiting for First Hour
Chapter 4 3 First Hour: Recognizing Oneself
Chapter 5 4 Second Hour: History and Literature
Chapter 6 5 Third Hour: Student Voices as the Center of the Class
Chapter 7 6 Lunch Hour: Students' Lives
Chapter 8 7 Fourth Hour: Connections
Chapter 9 8 Interlude: Twenty-Four Seven
Chapter 10 9 Fifth Hour: Representing
Chapter 11 10 My White Power World
Chapter 12 11 Sixth Hour: Expectations
Chapter 13 12 After School: Training Teachers
Chapter 14 13 At Night: Community
Chapter 15 14 Living in Different Worlds
Chapter 16 15 Celebrations at School
Chapter 17 16 Celebrations at Home
Chapter 18 17 Resistance: The Power of White Activism
Part 19 Epilogue
Part 20 A Final Note to My Readers
Part 21 References
Part 22 Acknowlegments
Part 23 About the Author
