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Starter Kit

Youth Stories of Identity, Resilience, and Dreams

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1. I Was a Dreamer by Marcela Contreras

2. Story by Arooj Janjua

3. All Rise by Kayleen Braswell

4. America the Beautiful by Budie Kadir

5. Barbie's "PERFECT" Life by Astrid Lopez

6. I Had to Do It

7. I Cannot Be Scared Anymore

8. Mi Travesía, a rap by Christopher Bares Alfaro

9. No Dream is Illegal

Stories of Immigrant and Refugee Youth

   

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1. I Will Never Forget You

2. Daughter, Do You Still Want to Go?

4. And Now, It Is My Turn

5. When the Heart and Mind Don't Agree

3. Surprise by Stephany Ramírez

Stories of Families—Biological, Yearned For, and Chosen

   

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1. Families Hold Stories by Olga Pimentel

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2. The Bridge by Sarah Shin

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3. An Excerpt from Red Medicine by Pat Gorman

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4. An Excerpt from Yearning for Maternal Love by Chong-Ae Lee​

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 Stories of Poverty, Hunger, and Homelessness

   

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1. The Age of Legality by Kris Janvier

Stories of Childhood Violation and Abuse

  1. Stories of Identity, Resilience, and Dreams

  2. Illness, Mental Health, and Loss

  3. Our Journeys, Our Hope

  4. Overcoming the Violence in Our Lives

  5. Stories of Children of the Incarcerated

  6. Childhood Violation

Stories of Childhood Violation and Abuse

1. A Childhood Taken by Erika Vasquez

Stories of Political, Community, and

Domestic Violence

2. Story by Edwin Solis

3. My Body is Here, But My Soul is Beyond There

by Guadalupe Ortiz Telica

Youth Stories about Mental Health

1. A Glimmer of Hope by Keiry Fuentes

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2. Story by Charlotte Ring

Youth Stories about Racism

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1. An Excerpt from "Childhood is a Relative Experience," by Lonnie Mathis

We gratefully thank The Horace and Amy Hagedorn Fund, The Angela and Scott Jaggar Foundation, The Flagstar Foundation, and New York State Council on the Arts for providing the seed money to allow a collective of teachers, school counselors, and school administrators to create this new open source website dedicated to educators who are seeking new ways to connect with their students.

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Herstory Writers Network

2539 Middle Country Road

Second Floor

Centereach, NY 11720

Phone: 631-676-7395

herstorywriters.org

Email: contactus@herstorywriters.org

The artwork on these pages was created by Gwynne Duncan especially for this online curriculum

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