Big Ideas

• Community based learning

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• Minority representation as protagonists 

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• Learning life concepts as whole

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• Connectivity between past, future and

present 

• Addressing interesting reads in the

classroom to peak student interest​

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• Perspective of a minority antagonist 

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• Help students cope with real life 

experiences that may come across

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• Address specific social attitudes 

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• Identify flaws in order to create better behavior

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• Expose some students to new ideas and 

concepts they may not have come across yet

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• Developing respect for all peoples of any 

background

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• Transmit the culture of those who speak

or live or act the same as those within

the novel

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• Foster critical thinking

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• Increase problem solving and decision

making skills