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Title Rhythm and resistance : teaching poetry for social justice / edited by Linda Christensen and Dyan Watson.
Edition First Edition.

Location Call No. Status Notes
 Purdy-Kresge Library Oversize  LB 1631 .R494 2014    CHECKED IN
Description x, 262 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
volume rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Roots: where we're from -- Celebrations: lift every voice -- Poetry of the people: breathing life into literary and historical characters -- Standing up in troubled times: creating a culture of conscience -- Turning pain into power -- The craft of poetry.
Summary "Rhythm and Resistance offers practical lessons about how to teach poetry to build community, understand literature and history, talk back to injustice, and construct stronger literacy skills across content areas and grade levels-- from elementary school to graduate school. Rhythm and Resistance reclaims poetry as a necessary part of a larger vision of what it means to teach for justice." from cover.
Subject Language arts -- Social aspects -- United States.
Poetry -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects -- United States.
Social justice -- Study and teaching -- United States.
Added Author Christensen, Linda.
Watson, Dyan.
ISBN 9780942961614 (pbk.)
0942961617 (pbk.)
OCLC # 907932467
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