Help me give my students copies of Beverley Naidoo’s Out of Bounds and Journey to Jo’Burg. This book of short stories and this novella will be added to our study of South African apartheid.
The school, started 19 years ago, has been a shining star in the school district of Philadelphia. It is unique in that it is a traditional, neighborhood public school, but has a private partnership with the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers.
I teach a diverse group of learners in the University City section of Philadelphia.
My students come from racially, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse families. The school is a community of learners whose mission is to maximize the academic and personal competence of all its students to become successful life-long learners and productive citizens in a diverse and highly technological society.
My Project
This past year, we added Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime to our 7th grade curriculum. I would like copies of Beverley Naidoo’s Out of Bounds and Journey to Jo’Burg to supplement our study of South African apartheid. Over the course of this unit, students will delve into deep discussions about how racial segregation griped this country, and how we as a people can better work to eradicate racism from our world. Using these short stories and this novella, the students will learn the history of apartheid and study narrative techniques and crafting.
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