Teaching with Folk Stories of the Hmong

The classroom companion to Livo and Cha's folktale collection. After an overview of Hmong culture, it turns the stories into activities that reach across the curriculum, so a teacher can use Hmong material for more than a single diversity unit in November. The design assumption is worth naming: folktales are treated as a way into history, geography, and craft rather than as decoration, which is how the stories function inside the culture too. Written with Dia Cha as co-author, so the cultural content is sourced from within the community rather than adapted from it. For elementary and middle-school teachers, librarians, and homeschooling families.