Common Reading Program  

Random House, Inc. Teacher's Guide
Includes:

• Great ideas for addressing class and race issues
• 37 thought-provoking questions
• 12 research projects

Durham County Library.  Book Club Kit Discussion Guide

• 20 great discussion questions 
• Further reading suggestions

Reader's Guide - Maryland One Book One State 2008

• 20 great discussion questions
• What to read next suggestions

Teacher's Guide - Maryland One Book One State 2008

• Clearly defined learning goals, expectations and indicators
• well-developed assignments
• lots of discussion questions

Find these books in the library collection.

Giants among us first-generation college graduates who lead activist lives - Sandra Rodriguez

e-book

Other people's children the battle for justice and equality in New Jersey's schools - Lisa Delpit

e-book

"Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" and other conversations about race - Beverly Daniel Tatum

Call Number: 2nd floor E185.625 .T38 1997

The making of a Black scholar from Georgia to the Ivy League - Horace A. Porter

e-book

The agony of education : Black students at white colleges and universities - Joe R. Feagin

2nd floor LC2781.7 .F43 1996

There are no children here : the story of two boys growing up in the other America - Alex Kotlowitz

2nd floor HQ792.U5 K683 1992

Pride in the projects teens building identities in urban contexts - Nancy L. Deutsch

e-book

Savage inequalities : children in America's schools - Jonathan Kozol

2nd floor LC4091 .K69 1991

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey for the Inner City to the Ivy League by Ron Suskind, 2004.

The story of honor student Cedric Jennings, from a crime-infested high school in Washington, D.C. The summer after his junior year, at a program for minorities at MIT, he gets a fleeting glimpse of life outside. The glimpse turns into a face-on challenge one year later when accepted into Brown University, an Ivy League school. At Brown, finding himself far behind most of the other freshmen, Cedric must manage a bewildering array of intellectual and social challenges. Having traveled too far to turn back, Cedric is left to rely on his faith, his intelligence, and his determination to keep alive his hope in the unseen--a future of acceptance and reward that he struggles, each day, to envision.

April 5, 2010 - Teaching Ideas for the Common reader with Professor Todd Campbell.

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. . .with two articles journalist Ron Suskind wrote for the Wall Street Journal in 1994.

Suskind, Ron.  "Against all Odds: In Rough City School, Top Students Struggle to Learn -- and Escape --- Cedric Jennings Eyes MIT, but Obstacles are Steep; Failure Rules at Ballou --- Physics Labs, Death Threats." 

----------------. "Class Struggle: Poor, Black and Smart, an Inner-City Teen Tries to Survive M.I.T. --- Cedric Jennings Triumphed Over Gangs, Violence; Now for the Hard Part --- Relying on Adrenaline, Faith."