Introduction: Honoring high standards: reading, writing, speaking, and listening in a multicultural classroom. Context
Overview
Of studies and communities, standards and possibilities
Contemporary society, standards, and a passion for learning in a multicultural world. Introduction
Coming together from a divided society: divided neighborhoods/divided lives
Educating for meaning, educating for skills in a multicultural society
Meaningful standards in a democratic society
Conclusion
Exploring race, culture, and gender through American literature and films: understanding self and others. Prelude
Introduction
Reading for real, reading America
A journey across America
Reading across cultures, examining the lives of men and women: a pedagogy of multiculturalism
Conclusion
Reading literature and films through the lens of class: breaking taboos, examining factors that influence class membership and mobility. Introduction: class in students' lives/class in art
Schooling and class
The power, bonds, and chasms of class through adolescent eyes
Classed lives in American literature
A curriculum and pedagogy of class: crossing the lines of class in a classroom
Teaching about class: dismantling illusions, challenging the bonds of class
Conclusion
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender lives and issues, readings and films: countering invisibility, interrupting the cycle of homophobia. Prologue
Introduction: an evolving society/a host of questions
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender American literature: coded lives, classics, and best sellers
Toward openness and clarity: writers, filmmakers, and a high school forum
Supporting GLBT students-supporting all students-in the classroom
Epilogue
Conclusion: a place for growing into who we are
Writing for self and others, writing for life: speaking to journals, making art, building arguments. Introduction: writing as a tool for observation, exploration, expression, and activism-the freedom to write/the support to succeed
Writing for the self: speaking to journals
Writing for others: making art, building arguments
Writing for a multicultural audience
A passion for writing in a diverse society
Conclusion
A multicultural classroom: a real and precious community. Introduction
Building a multicultural community: developing habits of the heart and mind
Implications of community building in an American classroom
The larger context: looking back/looking forward
Conclusion.