TEXT SET
The website, http://www.halftheskymovement.org, suggests a theme that my students can begin exploring: free choice and empowerment for young women. Presented in this website, “Meet Srey” is a story of a 15-year-old Cambodian girl, a victim of sexual trafficking. Her story conveys the universal message of female empowerment. Also, Hilary Clinton celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Women’s History Project with her remark: “I believe that women’s rights, roles, and responsibilities, is the last piece of unfinished business that we must confront together.” Thus, goal for the text set is to enhance the unit on gender issues, which helps to promote awareness among female adolescents who can learn more about exercising their free choice and empowering among themselves.
Criteria for selecting novels and other texts.
The novels are identified as based on two considerations: 1) a story that features a female protagonist, which embodies a female author’s point of view, 2) gender-based issues that challenge the lives of females.
NOVELS
Allison, D. (1993). Bastard Out of Carolina. New York, NY: Plume/Penguin Books.
Angelou, M. (1970). I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York, NY: Random House.
Beals, P. (1994). Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High. New York, NY: Washington Square Press.
Bolton, R. (1994). Gal: A True Life. New York, NY: Harcourt.
Brown, M. (1973). Rubyfruit Jungle. New York, NY: Bantam.
Campbell, M. (1989). Sweet Summer: Growing Up With & Without My Dad. New York, NY: Ballantine.
Chambers, V. (1996). Mama's Girl. New York, NY: Riverhead Books.
Chao, P. (1997). Monkey King. New York, NY: HarperCollins.
Chernin, K. (1983). In My Mother's House: A Daughter's Story. New York, NY: Harper & Row.
Cisneros, S. (1984). The House on Mango Street. New York, NY: Vintage Books.
Compestine, Y. (2007). Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Co.
Cushman, K. (1991). The Midwife’s Apprentice. New York, NY: HarperCollins.
Dressen, S. (2002) Dreamland. New York, NY: Penguin Group.
Ellis, Deborah. (2001). The Breadwinner, Parvanna’s Journey. Toronto, CA:
Erdrich, L. (1999). The Birchbark House. New York, NY: Hyperion Book CH.
Esquivel, L. (1989). Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, With
Fitch, J. (1999). White Oleander. Boston, MA: Little Brown.
Frank, A. (1952). The Diary of a Young Girl. New York, NY: Bantam.
Gibbons, K. (1987). Ellen Foster. New York, NY: Vintage Press.
Halse, L. (1999) Speak. New York, NY: Penguin.
Hammad, S. (1996). Drops of This Story. New York, NY: Harlem River Press.
Heese, K. (1997). Out of the Dust. New York, NY: Scholastic Press.
hooks, b. (1996). Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood. New York, NY: Henry Holt.
House, P. (2009). Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Lee, H. (1960). To Kill a Mocking Bird. New York, NY: Harper.
Li, M. (2008) Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Lorde, A. (1982). Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press.
Lowry, L. (1998). Number the Stars. New York, Random House.
Morrison, T. (1970). The Bluest Eye. New York, NY: Pocket Books.
Oufkir, M. and Michelle, F. (2001). Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail. New York, NY: Hyperion Press, 2001.
McCormick, P. (2006). Sold.
Na, A. (2001). A Step From Heaven. Honesdale, PA: Front Street Imprint of Boyds Mill Press.
Palwick, S. (1992). Flying in Place. New York, NY: TOR.
Santiago, E. (1993). When I Was Puerto Rican. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
Sapphire. (1996). Push. New York, NY: Vintage.
See, L. (2009). Shanghai Girls. New York, NY: Random House.
Sexton, L. (1994) Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother Anne Sexton. Boston, MA: Little Brown, 1994.
Shange, N. (1985) Betsey Brown. New York: St. Martin's Press.
Smith, L. (1988). Fair and Tender Ladies. New York: Putnam.
Sone, M. (1953) Nisei Daughter. Boston, MA: Little Brown.
Spinelli, J. (2002). New York, NY: Knopf Books for Young Readers.
Staple, S. (1991). Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind. New York, NY: Laurel Leaf.
Taylor, M. (1997). Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry. New York, NY: Puffin.
Thisman, J. (1993). Molly Donnelly. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.
Voigt, C. (1991). When She Hollers. New York, NY: Scholastic Paperbacks.
Walker, A. (1983). The Color Purple. New York: Washington Square Press.
Wolff, V. (2001). True Believer. New York, NY: Atheneum.
Short Stories
Alvarez, J. (1991) How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. New York: Plume/Penguin Books.
Atkin, B. (1993). “Fitting In,” from Voices from the Fields: Children of Migrant Farmworkers Tell their Stories Interview, p 34-39. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company.
Cahill, S., ed. (1993). Growing Up Female: Stories of Women Writers from the American Mosaic. New York, NY: Mentor.
Clair, M. (1994) Rattlebone. New York, NY: Penguin.
Coleman, S. (1998). “Lucy Lim: Utility Switch Operator,” from Hard-Hatted Women, p 45-51. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press.
Delany, S. (1993). “Around Brick Walls,” from Having Our Say, p 30-33. New York, NY: Kodansha American Inc.
Dhillon, K. (1989). “The Parrot’s Beak”, from Making Waves, p 6-9. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
Guilbault, R. (1990). “Hispanic, USA: The Conveyor Belt Ladies,” from the San Francisco Chronicle, “This World,” April 15, 1990, p. 120-125.
Hazel, C. (1987). “I Feel Free,” from Cathedral, p 38-40. New York, NY: Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Lanker, B. (1989) “Elizabeth Cotton,” from I Dream a World, p 4-6. New York, NY: Stewart, Tabori & Chang.
Longworth, P. “Me and the Guy Upstairs,” from No More Frogs, No More Princes, p 101-105. Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press.
Maddox, E. (1993). “Words in a Blue Notebook,” from Legacies p 92-94. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
Peare, C. (1959). “Miracle at the Pump House,” from The Helen Keller Story, p 7-11. New York, NY: HarperCollins.
Shandler, S. (1999). Ophelia Speaks : Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self. New York, NY: Harper.
Young, B. (1990). “Mama’s Legacy,” from Essence Magazine, p 27-30. New York, NY: Essence Communications, Inc.
Picture books
Alder, D. (1993). A Picture Book of Anne Frank. New York, NY: Holiday.
Bunting, E. (2006). One Green Apple. New York, NY: Clarion Books.
Bunting, E. (1998). So Far from the Sea. New York, NY: Clarion Books.
Coerr, E. (1997). Sadako. New York, NY: Putnam Juvenile.
Coleman, E. (1996). White Socks Only. Park Ridge, IL: Albert Whitman & Company.
Hazell, R. Heroines: Great Women Through the Ages.
Giovanni, N. (2005). Rosa. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Co.
Hoestlandt, J. (1996). Star of Fear, Star of Hope. New York, NY: Walker Books for Young Readers.
Innocenti, R. (1985). Rose Blanche. New York, NY: Stewart, Talbori, and Craig.
Kathleen, K. (1996). Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest woman. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace.
McKissack, P. (2001). Going Someplace Special. New York, NY: Atheneum/Anne S Schwartz Books.
Meltzer, M. (2003). Ten Queen: Portraits of Women of Power. New York, NY: Dutton Juvenile.
Metsellar, M. (2009). Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures. New York, NY: Flash Point.
Polacco, P. (2000). The Butterfly. New York, NY: Philomel.
Shange, N. (2009). Coretta Scott. New York, NY: Katherine Tegen Books.
Shore, D. & Alexander, J. (2005). This is Dream. New York, NY: Amistad.
Stotts, S. (2010). We Shall Overcome: A Song That Changed the World. New York, NY: Clarion Books.
Sullivan, G. (2007). Her Life In Pictures. New York, NY: Scholastic Nonfiction.
Volavkova, H. (1994). I Never Saw Another Butterfly. New York, NY: Schocken.
Weatherford, C. (2006). Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. New York, NY: Hyperion Book.
Woodson, J. (2005). Show Way. New York, NY: Putnam Juvenile.
Graphic books
Castellucci, C. (2007). The Plain Janes. New York, NY: Minx.
Picott, C. (2009). Raggedy Chan. San Francisco, CA: Camille Picott.
Satrapi, M. (2004). Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. New York, NY: Pantheon.
Stassen, J. (2006). Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda. 2006. New York, NY: Roaring Brook Press.
Watts, I. (2008). Good-bye Marianne: A Story of Growing Up in Nazi Germany. Plattsburg, NY: Tundra Books.
Two useful articles.
Posa, C. (1994), “The real future of feminism,” from The Baltimore Sun.
Phillips, K. (1993). “How Seventeen Undermines Young Women,” from Extra!
Useful websites.
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