Strategy 9- (Critical Literacy)

One of the strategies that I found on "Learn NC" was reading multiple texts and this is defined as  "Incorporating multiple texts based on similar literary themes offers students the opportunity to critique the values or voices that are being promoted. Furthermore, this practice challenges the idea that meaning is fixed and encourages students to use evidence to support their interpretation. Students can evaluate the social, cultural, and historical frameworks of texts by analyzing differing perspectives of a single event."

This strategy can be used when presented with an event that is typically remembered a certain way or something that students believe something happened in a particular way by only getting one perspective. They gave an example of using To Kill a Mockingbird and other books from that time to compare perspectives of people of different background from that area. I didn't think about it then but my teacher in my film class last year used this strategy. We read a book and saw two movies of "La noche de Tlatelolco", of when hundreds of Mexican students were killed in the plaza by the goverment because of their protests. It was interesting to see different views because the book described it as a horrible event, which it was, but the movie gave it a more optimistic view, as it focused on the unity of students that happened instead of focusing on the fatal night. This was good because I didn't leave this unit with such a bitter note as I would've if I would've only read the book. 

"Critical Literacy." Critical Literacy. Learn NC, n.d. Web.