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VISUAL TEXTS Voting Rates by Age planned for a Hyattsville city council meeting 5
Images with a Purpose, to draw such attendance, but on this freezing
Never Simply for Decoration cold night, teenagers had walked, carpooled, or
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taken public transit to plead for the right to take section one
Today’s students live in a visual world,
and it’s never been more important to part in the same local elections most adults
equipment them with the analysis and blow off. /
critical thinking skills to navigate it. That’s Among them was Juwan Blocker, who got a
why every image in Advanced Language ride from an English teacher. And after he saw
& Literature is included for a specific that his voice really mattered when his city Bill Bystricky
pedagogical purpose, and comes with lowered its voting age to include him, Blocker’s
a contextualizing caption and analytical engagement grew, and he continued taking part
question. Visuals deserve to be read and
U.S. Census Bureau board twice and got elected as a student
analyzed, just like any other text. as he became an adult.
“I got involved in running for the school
member,” he says. “And now I’m here at the age
ELL SUPPORT of 20 running for a full term on the board of
Essential Tools to Build Understanding This is a chart from the United States Census education. So it definitely impacted me and
Bureau. others.”
Teachers know that English Language Learners are What conclusions can you draw from this That shouldn’t be too surprising. A study 20
capable of high-level academic work, they just need the chart about voting rates by age, especially published in the Journal of Youth Studies found
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right supports. That’s why — in addition to the supports trends in recent years? How would this that “political interest of 16- and 17-year-olds
already built into the book like Key Context notes, chart help or hinder Bystricky’s argument?
Vocabulary in Context questions, and Foundational Conduct brief research to identify the was higher after lowering the voting age.”
Texts — we are offering Essential Guide handout for latest data on youth voting. Two years after Takoma Park lowered its voting
every reading that offers a suite of ELL supports, such age, Male emailed me and told me how young
as a summary of the text to support comprehension, people’s involvement has become every day.
additional context to help build background knowledge, “[It’s now] normal for older people to stand
specific help with word- and sentence-level challenges for voters younger than 18 was four times that of in line with younger people to vote,” he said.
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in the text, and more. older voters . “Normal for 16- to 17-year-olds to be at
But that’s Takoma Park, an affluent suburb of campaign events and asking questions of
Washington where many parents are among
candidates. Normal to see 16- to 17-year-olds at
America’s policy leaders. Their kids grow up
Speech to the United Nations Youth Assembly council meetings. And best of all, as an elected
informed and engaged. Surely, critics said, that representative, it has become normal for me to
Malala Yousafzai couldn’t happen in a more typical city. get requests from 16- to 17-year-olds — for
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai (b. 1997) is a young The next campaign arose in working-class information or representation or services that
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Pakistani woman who has become a symbol for social justice, human Hyattsville. This time, teenagers turned out in the city provides.”
skill workshop
rights, and resistance to Taliban rule. At the age of eleven, Malala such numbers that the council chambers had
Yousafzai began writing a blog about the hardships of her life under standing room only . The architects had never Blocker found his increased engagement
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Taliban rule, specifically addressing the Taliban’s ban on education for even rubbed off on his parents. Before, he says,
girls. Though she protected her identity with a pseudonym, her writing his parents were only occasional voters, but now
soon became widely read and led to appearances on television, where 4 Wogan, J.B. “Takoma Park Sees High Turnout Among Teens After they vote in every election. That too is
Yousafzai spoke out for education rights for girls around the world. Election Reform.” Governing, November 7, 2013. https://www.
On October 9, 2012, the Taliban made an attempt to assassinate Yousafzai while she was
governing.com/news/headlines/gov-maryland-city-sees-high-
turnout-among-teens-after-election-reform.html
riding a bus home from school. She was shot in the head but survived the attack.
5 Schneider, Elena. “Students in Maryland Test Civic Participation 6 Zeglovits, Eva & Martina Zandonella. “Political interest of
KEY CONTEXT On July 12, 2013, young people were given control of the United Nations for the
and Win Right to Vote.” The New York Times, January 9, 2015. adolescents before and after lowering the voting age: the case of
first time in the sixty-eight-year history of the organization. More than one hundred organizations Austria.” Journal of Youth Studies, 16:8, 1084-1104, May 24, 2013.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/10/us/politics/students-in-
came together along with hundreds of young education advocates from around the world, including DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2013.793785
maryland-test-civic-participation-and-win-right-to-vote.html
Malala Yousafzai, who made her first public speech since recovering from the Taliban’s assassination
attempt. Below is the speech she gave on that day. 13
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Dthing. Malala Day is not my day. Today is Their right to be educated.
the day of every woman, every boy and every girl Dear Friends, on the 9th of October 2012, 10
who have raised their voice for their rights. There the Taliban shot me on the left side of my
are hundreds of human rights activists and social forehead. They shot my friends too. They
workers who are not only speaking for human thought that the bullets would silence us. But
rights, but who are struggling to achieve their goals they failed. And then, out of that silence came
of education, peace and equality. Thousands of thousands of voices. The terrorists thought that
people have been killed by the terrorists and they would change our aims and stop our
millions have been injured. I am just one of them. ambitions but nothing changed in my life except
So here I stand . . . one girl among many. this: Weakness, fear and hopelessness died.
I speak — not for myself, but for all girls and Strength, power and courage [were] born. I am
boys. the same Malala. My ambitions are the same. My
I raise up my voice — not so that I can shout, hopes are the same. My dreams are the same.
but so that those without a voice can be heard. Dear sisters and brothers, I am not against
Those who have fought for their rights: 5 anyone. Neither am I here to speak in terms of
Their right to live in peace. personal revenge against the Taliban or any
Their right to be treated with dignity. other terrorist group. I am here to speak up for
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