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Starter Kit

Youth Stories of Identity, Resilience, and Dreams

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3. All Rise by Kayleen Braswell

2. Story by Arooj Janjua

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

5. I Had to Do It

6. I Cannot Be Scared Anymore

7. Mi Travesía, a rap by Christopher Bares Alfaro

8. No Dream is Illegal

Stories of Immigrant and Refugee Youth

   

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2. Daughter, Do You Still Want to Go?

3. And Now, It Is My Turn

4. When the Heart and Mind Don't Agree

Stories of Children of the Incarcerated

   

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1. Do You Know Why? by Mary Fideli

 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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