Day 6
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
How do we use literacies to engage, interrogate, and appreciate multiple perspectives?
Key Readings
★ Muhammad, G. E. (2020). Cultivating genius: An equity framework for culturally and historically responsive literacy. Scholastic. [Chapter 7]
★ Graff, G., & Birkenstein. (2021). They say, I say: The moves that matter in academic writing. 5th ed. W. W. Norton. [Chapters 1-3]
Browne, S., & Madden, M. (2020). Life Histories Center Performance as Response to Text. LEARNing Landscapes, 13(1), 87-96.
Additional Readings
Yee, M. (2012). The Movement: Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Highsmith, C. M., photographer. (2019) This "History of Chinatown" mural, by four artists "Arturo Ho, Giz, N. Phung, and H. Tran" covers a building wall on the upper edge of the Chinatown neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania United States Philadelphia, 2019. -04-07. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2019689264/. (online only)
Historic American Buildings Survey, C. (1933) Chinatown YMCA, 125 North Tenth Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA. Pennsylvania Philadelphia County Philadelphia, 1933. Documentation Compiled After. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/pa1151/. (online only)
Alvarez, A. A., & Mikati, M. (2023, February 7). Philly's Chinatown has been fighting for its existence for decades. These women have led those fights. The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved from https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/chinatown-women-activism-leaders-20230207.html (online only)
Chen, N., & Delafosse, M. (2023, January 23). Corporate developers target Philly's Chinatown for destruction with new arena – Liberation News. Liberation News. Retrieved from https://www.liberationnews.org/corporate-developers-target-phillys-chinatown-for-destruction-with-new-arena/ (online only)
Save Chinatown | API PA. (n.d.). Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance. Retrieved from https://apipennsylvania.org/chinatown/ (online only)
Mikati, M. (2022, December 29). Community organizing strategies residents of Philadelphia's Chinatown usesto fight big development. The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved from https://www.inquirer.com/news/inq2/community-organizing-strategies-chinatown-philadelphia-development-sixers-arena-20230102.html (online only)
Writing into the Day
Dr. Mary Yee presenting on Saving Chinatown and its history in Philadelphia
Afternoon Session with SPOC
9:30 - 9:45
Writing into the Day
Think of a moment when you engaged, interrogated, and/or appreciated multiple perspectives with students.
In a text? Personal experiences? Writing?
What worked?
What didn’t work?
10:00 - 11:30
Morning Session with Dr. Mary Yee
Saving Chinatown: Philadelphia's Continual Struggle 1966-present
11: 30 - 12:15
Reading Groups
Group 4 Presentation
12:15 - 1:00
Lunch
Places to eat near AAI
1:00 - 2:00
Afternoon Session with Students for the Preservation of ChinaTown (SPOC)
Tour of China Town
2:00 - 2:30
Journal Groups
Group 4 Presentation
2:30 - 3:00
Wrap-up/ Reflections
Tomorrow (6/26) we will meet at The Colored Girls Museum (TCGM)
Complete Day 7 Readings!