Education

The Literary Freedom Project provides educators with literary arts lesson plans based on the content of each issue of Mosaic. Each plan uses the work by writers of African descent as a connective tool to a variety of subjects: history, social studies, and English. Our goal is to increase self awareness while promoting reading and strengthening literacy.

Lesson Plans for Teachers
Mosaic supplements its editorial content with lesson plans that are developed based on the content of Mosaic. These lesson plans, developed for secondary school educators, demonstrate how Mosaic’s content can serve as a connective tool to explore educational subjects such as history and social studies while also serving to increase the importance of literature in the classroom. Click here for additional information.

Mosaic Literary Conference
MLC provides a platform for literature-based creative thinking and knowledge sharing. Each year we invite educators, community and arts organizations, and artists to participate in various professional-development workshops. Click here for additional information.

We Are Family Book Club
The Literary Freedom Project believes that cultural identity and knowledge of self are fundamental cornerstones in the development of smart, creative, and focused young people. These qualities, on which families and communities are sustained and strengthened, are honed, in part, through a mix immersive reading –academic, vocational, and pleasure.  With professional instruction from a teaching-artist the We Are Family Book Club & Writing Workshop will engage in a literary “call and response” by reading, discussing, then writing short stories, essays, or poems based on the reading selection. An emphasis will be placed on reading comprehension, creative and expository writing.