Guiding+Principles

Guiding Principles

1. To expose students to points-of-view other than their own (include both world and multicultural texts)
 * develop empathy by seeing "the universal" despite different cultures, places, times, etc.

2. To choose texts based on quality and meaning first, then consider genre

3. To align texts developmentally (i.e. //Things Fall Apart// at end of year)

4. To show connections between texts and cultures (thematic organization?)