REFUGEE STORIES
“We are now witnessing the highest levels of displacement on record. An unprecedented 65.6 million people around the world have been forced from home. Among them are nearly 22.5 million refugees, over half of whom are under the age of 18.”
After attending Yale 2017 PIER Summer Institute: Human Rights: Recognition, Research, and Response I developed lessons & resources: Refugee Stories
1. Development of lessons & learning Context : Students have a wide range of academic challenges Students grades 7-12 will work in class & in the library. Most students are unfamiliar with primary sources & academic research. Some of the students have recently arrived to the US. Lessons will build on student interest & give students many opportunities to make choices & share learning. Students may work individually, with partners or in small groups, depending on academic &/or emotional needs.
2. Strategies to find resources: grants, local speakers (This school is 1 block from where on April 25, 1945 UN delegates drew up the 111-article Charter, in the San Francisco Opera House. The next day, they signed it in the Herbst Theatre auditorium of the Veterans War Memorial Building!)
3. Focus on compelling questions: “What is a refugee?” “How does the current refugee crisis impact our lives in San Francisco?”
4. Reflection & encouraging student leadership for change
AGENDA
REFUGEE STORIES Kay Hones kayhones@yahoo.com will2change.pbworks.com
10 minutes Who, Where, Why does it matter? UNHCR UN Refugee Agency
20 minutes Books, organizations
Refugee by Alan Gratz
How Dare the Sun Rise by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz
Four Feet, Two Sandals by Karen Lynn Williams
RISE @ SFUSD School Health Department
20 minutes Primary sources
NARA Document Analysis Worksheets
10 minutes Student questions, reflections, action
HIAS Welcome the stranger Protect the refugee
Other Resources:
Refugee Experience Colorin Colorado
Refugee Bibliography
Videos
Unodcumented and Black in America
Woke Up Late: Black Immigrants
Website
Notable Black Immigrants
State of Black Immigrants website
Some articles on anti-blackness in immigration policies
https://www.essence.com/magazine/daca-black-americans-october-2018-essence/
https://qz.com/africa/1204111/trumps-immigration-ice-kicked-out-more-africans-than-ever-while-reducing-overall-removals/
Refugees find warm embrace in snow
Desperate Refugees swim 2 1/2 miles
Yale 2017 PIER Summer Institute: Human Rights: Recognition, Research, and Response -
Lesson Piers Yale Institute
Creating Sanctuary for Students Fearful of Deportation
Celebrating the Voices of Immigrant Students
Immigration Resources American Educator Vol. 41, No. 4 Winter 2017-2018
Stories to Remember Grant for books
Constitution Day September 17
150th Anniversary of Red Cross
https://wikis.ala.org/yalsa/index.php/Serving_Diverse_Teens_@_Your_Library#Serving_Teens_who_are_New_Americans
http://www.librarygraphics.co.nz/special-days.html
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