The Line Between Us explores the history of U.S-Mexican relations and the roots of Mexican immigration, all in the context of the global economy. And it shows how teachers can help students understand the immigrant experience and the drama of border life. But The Line Between Us is about more than Mexican immigration and border issues. It's about imaginative and creative teaching that gets students to care about the world. Using role plays, stories, poetry, improvisations, simulations and video, veteran teacher Bill Bigelow demonstrates how to combine lively teaching with critical analysis. “Exactly what we need,” says writer Luis RodrÃguez.
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A wonderful book on critical teaching, filled with examples, resources, and how to transform theory into practice. --Ira Shor, City University of New York Graduate School: author (with Paolo Freire) of A Pedagogy for Liberation
An imaginative and innovative approach to understanding the U.S.-Mexican border and Mexican immigration. --Teachers College Record
A wonderful book on critical teaching, filled with examples, resources, and how to transform theory into practice. --Ira Shor, City University of New York Graduate School: author (with Paolo Freire) of A Pedagogy for Liberation
An imaginative and innovative approach to understanding the U.S.-Mexican border and Mexican immigration. --Teachers College Record
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This review is from: The Line Between Us: Teaching About the Border and Mexican Immigration (Paperback)
I approached few subjects with more trepidation than Mexican immigration, because every conversation with my students unleashed a torrent of emotions reflecting the everyday stereotypes, fear-mongering and downright bigotry towards immigrants that I hated but felt powerless to address. This book gave me the confidence to teach my 9th grade Comparative Cultures & Geography students about "the line between us".Author Bill Bigelow's intentions are to break down the `us' versus `them' perceptions that I feared in my students precisely because I could not address them. And he is very successful. His book is chock full of ideas, lesson plans and reproducibles backed up by real-life teaching experience grounded in progressive ideals. The book covers the historical roots of the border, NAFTA's impact, the drama of border crossing, life in border towns and provides a wealth of additional resources for fun, creative teaching.
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This is a rich, thought-provoking, sophisticated teaching resource to use in the classroom. It offers perspectives that are missing in the public debate about inmigration today. I highly recommend The Line Between Us.Anahi Walton-Schafer
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This review is from: The Line Between Us: Teaching About the Border and Mexican Immigration (Paperback)
I created a 4-week course on Mexican Immigration with the help of this book - I love the poetry, the essays, and the interactive historical lesson plans. For a small group of interested high schoolers, these activities were a success! I highly recommend this book as a teacher's guide for creating a short course or unit on this compelling and very current issue.
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On a gray February afternoon, I stood on U.S. soil next to the "fence" of enormous concrete pillars dividing the United States and Mexico. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Diego, New York, Free Trade Conference, North American Free Trade Agreement, Operation Gatekeeper, Rio Grande, Casa del Migrante, Mexico City, New Mexico, Thank God, Howard Zinn, Mexican Constitution, Otay Mesa, President Bill Clinton, Bob Peterson, Green Garden, Rethinking Schools-Global Exchange, Coyote Lady, Jose Kahn, Latin America, Los Angeles, Maclovio Rojas, Trading Democracy, Lourdes Lujan, Rio Alamar New!
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On a gray February afternoon, I stood on U.S. soil next to the "fence" of enormous concrete pillars dividing the United States and Mexico. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Diego, New York, Free Trade Conference, North American Free Trade Agreement, Operation Gatekeeper, Rio Grande, Casa del Migrante, Mexico City, New Mexico, Thank God, Howard Zinn, Mexican Constitution, Otay Mesa, President Bill Clinton, Bob Peterson, Green Garden, Rethinking Schools-Global Exchange, Coyote Lady, Jose Kahn, Latin America, Los Angeles, Maclovio Rojas, Trading Democracy, Lourdes Lujan, Rio Alamar New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henry David Thoreau on page 14, page 45, and page 56
- Bread and Roses (ScreenPress Film Screenplays) by Paul Laverty on page 138, and page 139
- San Diego by Lee Peterson in Front Matter, and page 9
- First Crossing: Stories About Teen Immigrants by Donald R. Gallo on page 83, and page 93
- Un Caballo Llamado Libertad (Riding Freedom) (Spanish Edition) by Pam Munoz Ryan on page 93
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