The Anisfield-Wolf canon provides diverse perspective on a number of key issues that educators may be looking to explore with students in their classrooms.
In an effort to lift these voices and encourage inclusivity, we have assembled educational resources to support lesson planning for grades K-12 and postsecondary classrooms.
Teaching Gods of the Upper Air
Level: Young Adult
Hidden Figures – Women of the Civil Rights Movement
Book: Hidden Figures
Level: Young Adult
Reading Ohio’s Black Newspapers in the Nineteenth Century
Level: Young Adult
Redacting and Reclaiming: Teaching Donika Kelly’s “The Renunciations”
Book: The Renunciations
Level: Young Adult
The Music of Tommy Orange’s “There There”
Book: There There
Level: Child
Teaching Kevin Young’s “Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News”
Book: Bunk
Level: Young Adult
Teaching Diversity in the Eras of Plague and Pandemic
Book: Far From the Tree
Level: Young Adult
Reading Anisfield-Wolf Winners’ Picture Books
Level: Child
“Why Black, Not Blue?”: Redefining the Color Black in Children’s Picture Books
Level: Young Adult
Shakespeare Meets Tommy Orange
Book: There There
Level: Child
Discovering “Reading-in-Place” — the Act of Joining Stories and Geography
Level: Young Adult
Exploring Magical Thinking Within “Olio” and “The Second Founding”
Book: Olio
Level: Young Adult
Taking A Deep Dive Into “Sing Unburied Sing”
Book: Sing, Unburied, Sing
Level: Young Adult
Discussing The Complexities Of Citizenship Within “Half Of A Yellow Sun”
Book: Half of a Yellow Sun
Level: Young Adult
The Light Bulb Effect: Transforming Youth through Creative Writing Workshops
Book: The New Testament
Level: Teenager
Teaching “The Gay Revolution” In The Classroom
Book: The Gay Revolution
Level: Young Adult
Exploring Historical Connections Through “The Big Smoke”
Book: The Big Smoke
Level: Teenager
Understanding Horizontal + Vertical Identities In “Far from the Tree”
Book: Far From the Tree
Level: Young Adult
Exploring Political Poetry Through “Deaf Republic”
Book: Deaf Republic
Level: Young Adult
