Connecting Sites

Personal narratives and the 21st century student
Story telling project - city college students center women
Spanish, French, and Portuguese - narrative writing steps
Indigenous Women's Voices
Walkin' and Talkin' wid Women - a video
Our Mexican Family - a woman painter
An Early American Opera - Scott Joplin
Book Reviews for students
Book lists and quotes for educators
Weaving theory while teaching

student blogs
student writing extensions
first student initiated youtube - 
and more
students talk IMovie - creating knowledge

video/youtube playlist - literacy interviews

Published paper - The Novel as a Bridge to Understanding Violence and Oppression

Example of 21st century platform for writing - Minority Rights Group -
Interview article - We Stay with Nothing - from San Andres, Columbia
by Denise Bacchus and Mbee

The Garifuna, a Nation Across Borders: Essays in Social Anthropology by Joseph A. Palacio
Book Review by Denise Bacchus, Ph.D.

Published essay - A personal journey 
1st blog during trip to Lethem, Guyana



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Community College Experience

This 21st Century Literacy Project is a work in progress.
Questions contact: bacchus@pipeline.sbcc.edu

Memories of Student Work - PowerPoint Presentations

City college students multiple products as they read for global knowledge, empowerment, and community.

1. Pedagogy is student center, 2. Critical thinking is one of the goals; 3. the novel as a bridge to get there is the door.

Below are PowerPoint presentations shared at conferences.  These presentations' purpose is to communicate to a larger academic audience the need for progressive education and the various paths needed to achieve critical thinking and reading goals.

CSA 2 - The novel as a bridge

ECCTYC - Marginalization

The PowerPoint presentations listed below are products of English 103 critical reading students as they interrogated the circumstances around earthquake in Haiti.

Haiti 1 powerpoint

Haiti 2 powerpoint

Haiti 3 powerpoint

Haiti 4 powerpoint

Haiti 5 powerpoint

Haiti 6 powerpoint

Below is the student oral histories web/blog.  On this blog you will find facilitator modeled pieces and students' oral histories.
The webblog