Moving Stories

The resources on this page support the first section of the Re-imagining Migration Learning Arc. Migration is our shared experience as humans. Explore stories that help us to understand ourselves, our communities, and the world. Among the questions these resources explore are the following:

1. In what ways do stories of migration help us understand who we are?
2. What can we learn from the many visible and invisible stories of migration around us?
3. How can we approach the sharing of stories of migration with understanding and compassion?

Stories and Teaching Ideas

The Ecology of Identity

Classroom Resource: Refuge by JJ Bola

Moving Stories In the Classroom

I Learn America – Where I’m From

Names, Identity, and Immigration

Moving Stories in the Classroom

Everyone Has a Story

Moving Stories at the Heart of Family Life

Lesson: Stories of Belonging

Building Connections to Counter Anti-Immigrant Bullying

We are America Stories as Classroom Texts

Stereotypes and the Pressure to Assimilate

We are America Student Stories

The Harmony of Both Worlds

Teaching Anything for Selena

The Unwritten Letter from my Immigrant Parent

Shifting Ideas of Citizenship: Citizenship Status and American Identit

Change Makers-Luma Mufleh

Teaching Moving Stories for Empathy & Connection

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Home by Warshan Shire

From Generation to Generation from Code Switch

A Nation of Immigrants and Xenophobia

Moving Stories Interview Questions

First Days in the US: Marjorie Agosín

Living a Hyphenated Life: Sara K. Ahmed

Undocumented and COVID Positive

Astrid Emily Francis: Unpacking Culture With Yuri Morales’s Dreamer

American Hunger: Richard Wright

Viet Thanh Nguyen: We Should All Know What It Is To Be An Outsider

Sarah Said: Exploring Our Names to Learn Dispositions for a World on the Move

Tyrus Wong Remembers Angel Island

Cheryl Hamilton: Telling Immigrant Stories

My Name is Ayad Faroud Al Rousan: A Syrian Refugee’s Story

Jessica Lander: Making History Personal

Erika Lee’s Family Story of Immigration

Classroom Resource: A Portrait of Berenice Sarmiento Cháve

Video: Where are you from?

Teaching Ideas: A Moving Stories Mini-Unit

Educator Spotlight: Lauren Schultz

Classroom Resource: Birth Water

Media Highlight Series: 9 Must Read Books by Asian-Origin Authors

Coming to America: Poems from Lowell High School Students

Jessica Lander: Coming To America – Migration & Poetry

The Danger of a Single Story

Sarah Said: Knowing Our Stories, Helps Our Students Write Their Own

Media Highlight: 7 Must Read Books by Latinx Authors

Moving Stories Educator Guide

Telling Stories: the Children of African Immigrants

Words Without Borders: Literature from Around the World

Classroom Resource: Fatima’s Drawings

Your stories are our history

How Immigration Status Has Impacted One Family

Immigrant Families: A Story by Hasan Minhaj

Classroom Resource: Sandra Cisneros, Identity, and the House on Mango Street

Classroom Resource: Jhumpa Lahiri and American Identity

Classroom Resource: Suitcase Stories – U-Meleni and her destiny to be herself

Classroom Resource: Jhumpa Lahiri and Transcultural Identities

Somos/We Are from Latino USA

Reflections on Identity with Kwame Anthony Appiah

From Immigrant to U.S. Citizen via Starbucks