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  • Highline Academy Southeast
  • Denver, CO
  • More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Our students are talented readers who think critically about issues. It's important that they are exposed to different viewpoints, and perspectives through novel studies so they are prepared for the challenges they will face. We often have former students return to us and say they were not prepared for the levels of discrimination, injustice, and racism in the world. They find themselves in high schools where students separate themselves into groups based on skin color and form cliques that were never present in grades K-8. Their experience in our school community is one of love, acceptance, and valuing diversity. We have read some empowering literature and analyzed character perspectives, and how those different view points impact events, details, and character actions. By reading Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper, students were able to build empathy, and examine how character perspectives in the novel influenced their actions and thinking. Students studied Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-Li Jiang. They analyzed whether characters' actions and thinking were justified through the lens of world history. These opportunities for students to look closely at social, cultural, and historic issues have built critical thinking skills, empathy and respect for differences, and problem-solving. My students need more novels that will allow them to view global issues and cultures different from their own small community.

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Our students are talented readers who think critically about issues. It's important that they are exposed to different viewpoints, and perspectives through novel studies so they are prepared for the challenges they will face. We often have former students return to us and say they were not prepared for the levels of discrimination, injustice, and racism in the world. They find themselves in high schools where students separate themselves into groups based on skin color and form cliques that were never present in grades K-8. Their experience in our school community is one of love, acceptance, and valuing diversity. We have read some empowering literature and analyzed character perspectives, and how those different view points impact events, details, and character actions. By reading Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper, students were able to build empathy, and examine how character perspectives in the novel influenced their actions and thinking. Students studied Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-Li Jiang. They analyzed whether characters' actions and thinking were justified through the lens of world history. These opportunities for students to look closely at social, cultural, and historic issues have built critical thinking skills, empathy and respect for differences, and problem-solving. My students need more novels that will allow them to view global issues and cultures different from their own small community.

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