Using Understanding by Design in the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classroom

Richard Barnett offers three contemporary tales of south Georgia and north Florida. An alcoholic pastor struggles with failure and loss and with the racial complexities of his family and flock in the aftermath of "The Storm of the Century." A young graduate student's recovery from a sexual assault is complicated by her desire for revenge, a secret, and a family member's fight to keep intact the last remnants of their land amid suburban encroachment. In an apocalyptic contemporary time, a band of…