Help me give my students a transformative journey across time to witness injustice and heartbreak, love and healing, through the luminous novel, Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi.
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Project
My students get excited when we use project-based learning to deepen connections between literature, current events, history, and STEMM-related issues. They care deeply about the future they are charged with shaping, and I am continually impressed with how eager they are for ways of improving our world.
In their history classes my tenth graders are exploring cultures, continuity and change over time, and Homegoing is a riveting example of how much we can learn from historical fiction.
This debut novel by Ghanaian-born, U.S.-educated writer Yaa Gyasi will give them new insight into how race relations in America were formed in far-away lands, and shift and twist over time.
In Homegoing, students follow the descendants of two African sisters, one sold into slavery in late 1700's, and one who remained in Africa, with each new generation offering a deeper look at the impact of colonialism, slavery, and injustice over 300 years.
More than three‑quarters 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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