Reading Group Questions for Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Reading for their Life
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Reading for their Life
Getting it Right: Building a Bridge to Literacy for Adolescent African-
American Males
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Why Worry about African American Males?
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Only 14% of African American 8th graders reached proficiency on national reading tests
(NAEP Data 2009)Image under Creative Commons 3.0 by Ian Britton
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Fewer than half of African American males receive their high school diplomas.
(National Summary: Diplomas Count 2008)Image from BV Black Spin
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African Americans between the ages of 15 and 24 are roughly eight times more likely to be
the victim of homicide than whites in the same age group.
Source: Health, United States 2009. Image licensed under Creative Commons 2.0 by Mika Jarvinen
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The unemployment rate for African American males is nearly twice that of white males.
Source: The Employment Situation, 2010. Image from Grand Rapids Press
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African American men comprise
over 40% of the prison population
in the United States, despite making up only
14% of the national
population.
Source: Prison Inmates at Midyear 2009. Image from 37 Days
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Alfred Tatum on RFTL
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Literacy can define a person's path through life.
"underexposure to texts… contributes to a
life in which [they] experience greater
economic, judicial, and social strife and
disappointment"
(Tatum 2009, xii).
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An Enabling Text Should:
Teach students to be, do, think, and act.
My Grandfather’s Son: A Memoir by Clarence Thomas
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An Enabling Text Should:
Show students who they are, where they come
from, and who they want to be (a sense of identity)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
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An Enabling Text Should
Contain elements or characters that
students can identify with and
relate to
Handbook for Boys by Walter Dean Myers
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Menace
Destiny
You Don't Even Know MeVocabulary
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I’ve been wondering lately,Trying to figure out just how it could beThat you can see me so oftenAnd still don’t know a thing about me.
- Sharon Flake, "You Don't Even Know Me"
I am an invisible man.... I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
- Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man, 1952
Text to Introduce the Text
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"You Don't Even Know Me"
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Framing Question Criteria
* Larger than the Text itself
* Not be able to be answered with a "Yes" or "No"
* Students can connect it to their lives
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Further Resources for "Getting it Right"
Boone, J., Rawson, C., & Vance, K. (2010). Getting it right: Building a bridge to literacy for African-American adolescent males. School Library Monthly, 27(2), 34-37.
Reading for their Life: An Appendix Created for School Librarians
Reading For Their Lives in Durham, North Carolina