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COMMON GROUND - SUGGESTED LITERATURE

FOR ALASKAN SCHOOLS

NOTE: This document was created between the years of 1988 and 1991. However, it is still an excellent collaboration and we hope you find it useful.

Literature is no one's private ground; literature is common ground. Let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves. It is thus that English literature will survive that country our own country, if we teach ourselves how to read and how to write, how to preserve and how to create.

--Virginia Woolf

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Forward

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Basic Intent of This Document

Criteria for Selection of Books

Fiction

Nonfiction

Questions for local district selection

Local Decision-Making Policies

Format of This Document

Alaska Literature

Implementation Ideas

Common Agreement Statements from Professional Associations

General Genre Listings

General Reading Listing

Alphabetical Listing of Suggested Literature, Grades K-8

Alphabetical Listing of Suggested Literature, Grades 7-12

Alaska Native Literature Anthologies

Sources for Alaska Literature

Role of Literature as a Source of History, Values and Identity

The Right To Read

The Threat to Education

Library Bill of Rights

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