Alfred Tatum BY RACHEL ALLEGRA KRISTIN COLLINS AND

Alfred Tatum BY: RACHEL ALLEGRA, KRISTIN COLLINS, AND CHRISTIN GRIFFIN

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Education: Alfred Tatum received his Ph. D from the University of Illinois: Chicago. He currently resides as Dean of the College of Education and the director of UIC’s Reading Clinic.

Tatum's Publications: Tatum’s publications: � Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males: Closing the Achievement Gap � Reading For Their Life: Re-building the Textual Lineages of African American Adolescent Males � Fearless Voices: Engaging the Next Generation of African American Male Writers � Tatum also wrote several journal articles that reference the literacy development of African American Males.

Teaching Strategy �It is important for students to read text that will overall have a lasting effect on the student. �Each text read should be useful for “shaping more responsive textual pathways for struggling and nonstruggling readers”. –Tatum �Teachers to chose texts that has black males as protagonists and texts about “beating the odds” for African American male adolescents. �Students are more willing to read a text that reflects upon their own belief.

SOL Standards �Lesson Plan: To Kill A Mockingbird �Subject/Course: Language Arts / Readings �Theme: Courage �Grade Level: 8 th-10 th �SOLs: Standard: 9. 4 a) Identify author’s main idea and purpose. Standard: 9. 4 i) Explain the influence of historical context on the form, style, and point of view of a written work.

Lesson Title: A Day in Someone Else’s Shoes Summary of tasks: �Read To Kill A Mocking Bird �Pick one quote that they feel is inspiring and how it relates to them. �Address the main idea of the story, as well as the author’s purpose. �Each student will write a paragraph about the wuote that chose and it means to them, how it relates to their beliefs, and what theme is to their quote.

Lesson Materials: �To Kill A Mockingbird �Pencil �Composition book or a Reading Journal

References: � Image by: http: //education. uic. edu/personnel/administration/alfred-tatum-phd � Book images: http: //www. heinemann. com/shared/covers/9780325026794. jpg http: //img 2. imagesbn. com/images/208780000/208780777. JPG https: //images-na. ssl-imagesamazon. com/images/I/51 xu. Pkdx 4 q. L. _UY 250_. jpg http: //upload. wikimedia. org/wikipedia/en/7/79/To_Kill_a_Mocking bird. JPG � TM & Scholastic Inc. (2015). Alfred W. Tatum, Ph. D. In Education Authors and Advisors. http: //teacher. scholastics. com/products/authors/pdfs/Tatum_Alfred _W. pdf