Resources: "Looking for the Real Me on the Hyphen":
Faith, Spirituality, & Social Action
Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
CURRICULUM/LESSON PLAN HELPS
"A Teacher's Guide To Religion in The Public Schools" (PDF download)
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=3964
*Building Emotional Intelligence: Techniques to Cultivate Inner Strength in Children, Linda Lantieri
*Girls, Social Class, and Literacy: What Teachers Can Do to Make a Difference Stephanie Jones
*YES magazine resources for teachers: http://www.yesmagazine.org/for-teachers
Teaching for Change: http://www.teachingforchange.org
Facing History and Ourselves: http://www.facinghistory.org/
*Writing A Life, Katherine Bomer (helping students craft memoir)
*A Stone's Throw: Living the Act of Faith (Social Transformation Through Faith and Spiritual
Practice); The Spiritual Activist: Practices To Transform Your Life, Your Work, and Your World,
Claudia Horwitz
*The Digital Writing Workshop, Troy Hicks (using digital technology/multimedia tools)
*For A Better World: Reading & Writing for Social Action, Randy & Katherine Bomer
Project Interfaith USA Resources Page: http://projectinterfaithusa.org/page/resources-page-library
Tannenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding:
https://www.tanenbaum.org/resources
https://www.tanenbaum.org/programs/education/curricula#olympics
free sample downloads of lesson plans like COEXIST, "an interactive conflict resolution curriculum for high
school students based on the case study of two Nigerians – one Muslim and one Christian – who were once at
war with each other and came to use their respective religions as resources for conflict resolution."
Connecting Religious Teens with Literature (from YALSA 2010 Symposium)
http://connectingreligiousteenswithlit.wordpress.com/
The Literacy/Social Responsibility Special Interest Group of IRA lists " Great Picture Book selections
for Social Responsibility": http://www.facebook.com/#!/album.php?aid=10126&id=100001803764742
MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES
PEN "Faith and Reason" Panel: Readings by Chinua Achebe, Martin Amis, Gioconda Belli, E. L.
Doctorow, David Grossman, Elias Khoury, Yusef Komunyakaa, Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith, Duong Thu
Huong, Ayu Utami, Jeanette Winterson, and Salman Rushdie; introduced by Salman Rushdie.
http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/889/prmID/1064
Martin Luther King, Jr. "A Time To Break The Silence: Declaration Against The Vietnam War"
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125355148
Esmeralda Santiago reads from Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun by Faith
Adiele: http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/1990
PEN Panel "Writing Faith": With Faith Adiele, Azhar Abidi, Alaa Al-Aswany, Richard Rodriguez, and
Colm Tóibín. Discussed: maintaining faith as a postmodern writer; why we need religion; unreason as the
writer's muse; the American protestant experiment; the gift of the first-person singular and the dream of the
"we"; the anxiety of the lonely American; and blasphemy as literary tradition.
http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/872/prmID/1064
Dan Taylor "How Stories Shape People", "Transferring Values Through Story":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4klD95LULnU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ASUhXt9YI&feature=related
OMG: Stories of the Sacred, from The Moth (part of New York Public Library's Three Faiths Project):
Audio of storytelling event exploring "the common and uncommon threads through three different religions,
all of which extol the virtues of humility, service, compassion, forgiveness and most of all, love. Hear tales of
hallowed spaces and blessed events. Soul searchers, devotees and agnostics tell stories of faith, doubt and the
places in between." Includes Judy Gold, Peter Hyman. Imam Khalid Latif, Reverend Wayne Reece, Reverend
Al Sharpton, Andrew Solomon. http://www.nypl.org/node/98627/audio
Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Author, 8th Grade Superzero (Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic)
http://www.olugbemisola.com
olugbemisola@olugbemisola.com
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Resources: "Looking for the Real Me on the Hyphen":
Faith, Spirituality, & Social Action
Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
MEMOIR, ESSAYS, ARTICLES, COMMENTARY
*Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology Faith Adiele, Mary Frosch, eds.
Coming of Age in America: A Multicultural Anthology, Mary Frosch
Coming of Age in the 21st Century: Growing Up in America Today, Mary Frosch
Spiritual Lives of Children, Robert Coles
*The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Malcolm X with Alex Haley)
Stories of the Spirit, Stories of the Heart: Parables of the Spiritual Path from Around the World
Christina Feldman, Jack Kornfield
*The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus, The Dalai Lama
*Girl Meets God, Lauren F. Winner
Never To Leave Us Alone: The Prayer Life of Martin Luther King, Jr., Lewis Baldwin
I May Not Get There With You, Michael Eric Dyson
Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers, Christian Smith and Melina
Lundquist Denton
Wide Awake: A Buddhist Guide for Teens Diana Winston
The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
Night, Elie Wiesel
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity, Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of Dorothy Day
Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama
Gandhi, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Where Have All The Flowers Gone: A Singalong Memoir
Radical Spirit: Spiritual Writings from the Voices of Tomorrow, Stephen Dinan (Editor)
Blue Jean Buddha : Voices of Young Buddhists, Sumi Loundon (Editor), Jack Kornfield (Foreword)
Teen Voices from the Holy Land: Who Am I to You?, Mahmoud Watad, Leonard Grob (Author)
American Muslim Teenager’s Handbook, Dilara Hafiz, Yasmine Hafiz, and Imran Hafiz
Teen Spirit: One World, Many Paths, Paul Raushenbush
DePauw University Commons Project, (with resources on Atheism, Humanism):
http://www.depauw.edu/student/religlife/commonsproject.asp#RelatedLinks
*resources I have used in workshops
MG/YA FICTION
Goy Crazy Melissa Schorr
Taneesha Never Disparaging M. LaVora Perry
Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature Robin
Brande
Caleb + Kate Cindy Martinson-Coloma
The Possibilities of Sainthood Donna Freitas
Unsigned Hype Booker T. Mattison
Heart of a Shepherd Roseanne Parry
What Momma Left Me Renee Watson
Once Was Lost Sara Zarr
Donut Days Lara Zielin
Does My Head Look Big in This? Randa Abdel-Fattah
Skunk Girl Sheba Karim
A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life Dana Reinhardt
Annexed Sharon Dogar
Confessions of A Closet Catholic Sarah Darer Littman
The Life and Opinions of Amy Finawitz Lorrie TofflerCorrie
Never Mind The Goldbergs Matthue Roth
The Dead and the Gone Susan Beth Pfeffer
8th Grade Superzero Olugbemisola RhudayPerkovich
Godless Pete Hautman
One Bird Kyoko Mori
Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Author, 8th Grade Superzero (Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic)
http://www.olugbemisola.com
olugbemisola@olugbemisola.com
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