WOW Stories: Volume XII, Issue 1
Migrant Waves in the Making of America
Spring 2024
WOW Stories: Connections from the Classroom is a free, open access, on-line, academic publication of Worlds of Words: Center of Global Literacies and Literatures containing blind, peer-reviewed vignettes written by educators about student’s experiences reading and responding to literature.
Introduction: Migrant Waves in the Making of America
Kathy G. Short
Reading the Nation: Migration as a Generative Theme
Leah Durán
Multimodal Text Sets as Curricular Resistance to Untold and Silenced Stories
Carol Brochin
Creative Literacy in Focus: Bridging Social Justice Literature with Visual Art in Our Borderlands
Elizabeth Gaxiola
Building Connections through Exploring Stories of Migration
Agnes Zapata
Integrating African American Stories into the Language Arts Curriculum
Kari Matthies
Children’s Literature is a Powerful Tool
Roxann Hunsaker
“I Have the Right”: Connecting the Human Body to Human Rights
Holly Hardin
Editor:
Kathy G. Short, Guest Editor
Review Board:
Mary Starrs Armstrong, Anchorage, AK
Deanna Day-Wiff, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA
Charlene Klassen Endrizzi, Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA
Jeanne Fain, Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN
Mary Fahrenbruck, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Lauren Freedman, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
Andrea García, Insight Policy Research, Austin, TX
Dorea Kleker, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
EnHye Lee, Yong In University, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Judi Moreillon, Tucson, AZ
Cynthia K. Ryman, California State University Monterey Bay, Marina, CA
Tracy Smiles, Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR
Monique Storie, University of Guam, Mangilao, Guam
Deonna Tourtellot, Red Rock Elementary School, Red Rock, AZ
Melissa Wilson, Cardiff, Wales
Production Editor:
Aika Adamson, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Authors retain copyright over the vignettes published in this journal and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under the following Creative Commons License:
WOW Stories, Volume XII, Issue 1 by Worlds of Words is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on work at https://wowlit.org/on-line-publications/stories/xii-1.
WOW stories: connections from the classroom
ISSN 2577-0551