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Portfolio Activity for “Weighing In”
As the number of obese and overweight children grows, so does size bias.
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A Wise Latina Woman: Reflections on Sonia Sotomayor
“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” These few words, spoken casually by Sonia Sotomayor at the annual Mario G. Olmos Law and Cultural Diversity Lecture at UC-Berkeley in 2001, came back to haunt President Barack Obama’s nominee for the United States Supreme Court during the spring and summer of 2009. Hard to believe that this brief statement could cause such anguish, particularly among the conservative white senators who form part of the Senate Judiciary Committee, yet they led to days of arrogant grilling by the Senators and weeks of newspaper articles and commentary by television pundits speculating on what Sotomayor meant, whether it would hurt her confirmation, and what it would signal for the new court.
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Julia Moves to the United States
Sean McCollum gives an account of writer Julia Alvarez's move to the United States from the Dominican Republic as a young girl. Although Alvarez struggled to fit in in this unfamiliar place, she finally found a comfortable niche in her writing.
July 9, 2014
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Creating a Hmong Student Advisory Board
Unsure how to teach about a particular culture? Ask the experts...the students!
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Classic Invisibility
Just because a bookshelf is full of "classics" doesn't mean it holds universal life lessons.
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Mariposas
This Latina civic empowerment program seeks to “take stories of adversity and flip them into stories of glory.”
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Teaching the Government Shutdown
Avoid polarized arguments about the federal government shutdown by emphasizing historical context, processes and the shutdown's effect on people across the United States.