Thread by @benniekara, The lovely @JulieHughes4 has asked for diverse texts that will enrich the [...]

The lovely @JulieHughes4 has asked for diverse texts that will enrich the English curriculum - here goes (a thread) #teamenglish

1/ Women’s voices - try an extract from Atwood’s The Penelopiad. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/6127/the-penelopiad-by-margaret-atwood/9780676974256/excerpt

Excerpt from The Penelopiad | Penguin Random House Canada

The #1 bestseller and acclaimed novel is now in Vintage.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/6127/the-penelopiad-by-margaret-atwood/9780676974256/excerpt

2/ Bit of lovely poetry to weave in somewhere to show students that LGBT couples have existed for a long time. Wordsworth on The Ladies is Llangollen...

3/ if you’re looking at uplifting and fascinating stories of disability and achievement, look no further than an extract from Haben: The Deafblind Woman who Conquered Harvard Law. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/11/excerpt-from-the-deafblind-woman-who-conquered-harvard-law/

Excerpt from ‘The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law’

The following is excerpted from Haben Girma’s memoir “Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law.”

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/11/excerpt-from-the-deafblind-woman-who-conquered-harvard-law/

4/ for a wonderful Asian woman’s voice, excerpts or whole short story from Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/books/chapters/first-chapter-unaccustomed-earth.html

‘Unaccustomed Earth’ (Published 2008)

“After her mother’s death, Ruma’s father retired from the pharmaceutical company where he had worked for many decades and began traveling in Europe, a continent he’d never seen.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/books/chapters/first-chapter-unaccustomed-earth.html

5/ this little gem ‘Banneker’ by Rita Dove introduces us to a forgotten black man in American history. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43354/banneker

Banneker by Rita Dove | Poetry Foundation

What did he do except lie

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43354/banneker

Will try and add more!

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