Lost Children Archive in Wisconsin
During the 2023-2024 Great World Texts in Wisconsin program, high school teachers and students throughout the state will read Valeria Luiselli’s novel Lost Children Archive, a fiercely imaginative follow-up to the American Book Award-winning Tell Me How It Ends. In Lost Children Archive, an artist couple set out with their two children on a road trip from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer. As the family travels west, the bonds between them begin to fray: a fracture is growing between the parents, one the children can almost feel beneath their feet.
Lost Children Archive in Wisconsin: Student Conference Program
Visit the Student Conference Program page for the schedule, maps, student projects, and more.
Teaching Guide and Resources
Teachers participating in Great World Texts will receive a Teaching Lost Children Archive in Wisconsin curricular guide and a classroom set of texts for their school’s permanent collection. The curriculum guide contains contextual and lecture materials, suggested readings, close reading and discussion activities, handouts, and suggestions for student projects. This teaching guide is designed to make the text accessible for a range of learners and grade levels and is customizable to meet the needs of a wide range of classrooms and students.
Participating teachers from across the state of Wisconsin also attend a virtual educator colloquium, to be held on Tuesday, August 22, 2023, which will feature lectures by campus faculty, guidelines for the conference, and community building exercises between educators.
Educators will bring their students to UW-Madison for a full-day conference on Monday, April 15, 2024, where students will present projects created in response to the novel, engage with other students from across the state, and meet author Valeria Luiselli in person. All participating educators received a stipend to fund their school’s participation in Great World Texts. These funds are most often used to offset the costs of substitute teachers and travel to Madison for the student conference.
Support for Lost Children Archive in Wisconsin
Luiselli’s visit to UW-Madison and Lost Children Archive in Wisconsin are supported by the UW-Madison Libraries; the Cleary-Kumm Foundation; the Evjue Foundation; the Wisconsin Book Festival; the Anonymous Fund of the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and the Brittingham Wisconsin Trust.
- Faculty Advisor: Paola Hernández, Professor of Spanish & Portuguese
- Teaching Guide Writer: Isabel Martín-Sánchez, PhD Candidtate, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
2023-2024 Participating Schools
In 2022-23, 20 schools from across Wisconsin engaged with Valeria Luiselli’s novel, Lost Children Archive:
- Bay Port High School
- Dodgeland High School
- Étude High School
- La Follette High School
- Lake Mills High School
- Madison West High School
- Menasha High School
- Milwaukee High School of the Arts
- Milwaukee School of Languages
- Necedah High School
- New Horizons/Shorewood High School
- Oshkosh North High School
- Oshkosh West High School
- Osseo-Fairchild High School
- Rock University High School
- Siren High School
- School of Options and Applied Research Charter High School (SOAR)
- Wautoma High School
- Whitehall Memorial High School
- Xavier Catholic High School