These are the remaining slides of my essay, “Developing Cross-Cultural Awareness and Digital Literacy through an Active Learning Project,” in Teaching Late-Twentieth-Century Mexicana and Chicana Writers, ed. Elizabeth Martinez (MLA, 2020).

A classroom exercise using PowerPoint to explore possible worlds beyond the text in five important Chicana novels. The essay provides a narrative for how to conduct the exercise during a semester, a selected bibliography of Chicana feminist criticism, and fifteen example PowerPoint sides (image, facts about same, and textual allusion that…[Read more]