Beyond Mango Street: Updating and diversifying your 6-12 curriculum. Sponsored by the Dr. Karin J. Duran and Richard Nupoli Endowment

What

Beyond Mango Street: Updating and diversifying your 6-12 curriculum. Sponsored by the Dr. Karin J. Duran and Richard Nupoli Endowment

When

3/12/2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Who: TL

Virtual AND In Person
Register in Advance
https://library.csun.edu/events/mango-street

See Flyer<https://drive......GtmuI4O2IBMXirUA5o15WT/view?usp=sharing>.
This workshop aims to widen the knowledge and understanding of YA literature specifically through the lens and perspectives of Latinx/AfroLatinx/Queer protagonists. It has been 40 years since the publication of Sandra Cisneros' critically acclaimed The House on Mango Street, and YA literature as a genre has grown in popularity and perspectives. However, curriculums have remained frozen in time and have tokenized certain authors. This workshop will allow us to break open the canon to multiple more pertinent perspectives, identities, voices, and stories, reinforcing the essential idea that the Latinx experience is not monolithic. We aim to enable participants to use these books in the classroom with possible writing prompts, project ideas, and discussion topics.