The Magdalene Sisters demonstrates in a movie how the 3 protagonists insisted on negotiating their identities to survive.
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An "interactive journal" of my reactions to the book, Negotiating Identities, by Jim Cummins, as an assignment for my Teaching Internship Program at Claremont (CA) Graduate University.
To be really interactive, I need your comments as well - about your experiences negotiating your own identity, or if you are a teacher, how you help your students negotiate their own identities.
Reading the blog
As with any blog, this story starts at the bottom (with the oldest entries) and continues to the present. If you are reading it for the first time, please go to the first entry to read about the purpose and structure of the blog.
Links to works cited
- (Cech) Weigh Proficiency, Assess Content
- (Cummins) Negotiating Identities
- (Frank) Ethnographic Eyes
- (Gorman) Oakland campus caters to refugees, immigrants
- (Healy) The sting of social rejection
- (Jones) The Inner-City Prep School Experience
- (Kalman) I Lift My Lamp Beside the Golden Door
- (McLean) Why the Dickens shouldn't costume dramas be ethnically diverse?
- (Menken, et al) When Change is the Only Consistency: The Case of Long-Term English Language Learners in Secondary Schools (Draft)
- (Ogbu 1978) Minority Education and Caste
- (Raz) 'We ARE Americans' Profiles Undocumented Students
- (Redstone) Message of the Statue of Liberty
- (Sam R) Can you tell me a little about the character of Tattycoram in the Dickens novel Little Dorrit?
- (Tobar) Language as a bridge and an identity
- (Viadero) Research Hones Focus on ELLs
- (Zavis) Iraqi refugees find U.S. life not what they expected
- (Zehr) Learning the Language (EdWeekblog)
- HELP Math program for ELLs
- Internationals Network for Public Schools
- Oakland International High School
- SEED School of Washington, DC
- U.S. English
Blog Archive
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- Chapter 3: The Three Faces of Language Proficiency
- Message of the Statue of Liberty
- A culture shift isn't always what you expected ei...
- Life not what they expected
- I Lift My Lamp Beside the Golden Door
- Chapter 2: The Evolution of Xenophobia
- The Magdalene Sisters
- Tattycoram and the Magdalen Sisters
- Reflections: Chapter I: Identity and Empowerment
- We ARE Americans
- Reflections: Preface
- Reflections: Forward: What did you bring with you ...
- Negotiating my own identity
- Negotiating your identity
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