Friday, June 16, 2017

Bread & Roses Community Curricula

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Bread & Roses
Curriculum

A Socially Conscious Approach
ESL/EFL Literacy



THEMES AND GOALS

How do you draw the attention of high intermediate level ESL/EFL teenage students and improve literacy in your middle and high school class? How can you, as a teacher, help youngsters achieve their dreams in a harsh and changing world? Since many students are or will become workers one day, they must be able to read the world, read the word, feel solidarity, and help their families to make ends meet, and then some. This curriculum is designed to raise the social “workers” consciousness of students while welcoming them to the world of the written English word.

METHODS AND MATERIALS


Much material was collected from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), UNITE union, The Botto Labor Museum, Maquila Solidarity Network, as well as a number of pedagogical and literary sources. These learning tools may be video, music, literature, and handouts. I have credited each individually. Much of the methodology employs the activities I have outlined and expanded on in the “Good Old Hands-On Fun & Games for ESL Literacy” section included before the unit plans. The Natural Approach, TPR, generative word exercises, and sentence strips are used throughout. The essential elements Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed are employed throughout the curriculum.

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