Interdisciplinary

2/6/13 World Languages and English World Curriculum Product?- Magazine- video essays, podcasts, songs, photo essays, essay reflections, poems, short stories... What's your language- have students research their ethnicity and culture, looking at how their language has evolved/changed? Interview grandparents/parents/relatives? Autoethnography?

I am playing with my Self, I am playing with the world's soul, I am the dialogue between my Self and el espiritu del mundo. I change myself, I change the world." Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“The struggle is inner: Chicano, indio, American Indian, mojado, mexicano, immigrant Latino, Anglo in power, working class Anglo, Black, Asian--our psyches resemble the bordertowns and are populated by the same people. The struggle has always been inner, and is played out in outer terrains. Awareness of our situation must come before inner changes, which in turn come before changes in society. Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads.” ― Gloria E. Anzaldúa

 “Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.”- //Amilcar Cabral // //"Language is never neutral" Paulo Freire //

“And it is equally true that to impose a language is to impose the weight of experience it carries and its conception of self and otherness—indeed, the weight of its memory"- Thiongo

How is our understanding of culture and society constructed through and by language? In what ways are language and power inseparable?
 * Language and Power**
 * Identity?**

**Social Justice** What are the responsibilities of the individual in regard to issues of social justice? Can literature serve as a vehicle for social change? When should an individual take a stand against what he/she believes to be an injustice? What are the most effective ways to do this? **Cultural** How does the culture reflected in the writing affect your understanding of it? How does your own culture affect your understanding of it?