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Session
I: 12:00n-1:15pm |
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Conscious Women Rock the
Page: Using Hip Hop Fiction to Incite Social Change
Conscious Women Rock the Page to support
educators who wish to use hip-hop fiction in their
classrooms to explore social issues and promote activism
among their students.
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Instructors: Elisha
Miranda and Sofia Quintero |
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Puerto Rican and Dominican
Poetry in the Classroom
This workshop will explore the work of poets from the
rich cultural communities Puerto Rican and Dominican and
ways to use their work in the classroom. |
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Instructor: Rich Villar |
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Session
II: 1:30-2:45pm |
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Revisiting the Role of
Literature & Culture in the Classroom through Art & the
Written Word
Revisiting the Role of Literature will explore
the fusion of culture, literature, and visual arts in
new ways; global community building through literature;
and the role played by literature, art and the new media
in the creation of a heritage and cultural identity |
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Instructors: Gabrielle David and Nikita Hunter |
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The Bridge is Over:
Connecting Young Adults with Engaging, Age-Appropriate
Literature
The Bridge is Over will provide educators and
youth providers with strategies to identify and work
with engaging multicultural young adult literature. |
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Instructor: Felicia Pride/BackList |
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Lunch:
2:45-3:30pm |
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Session
III: 3:45-5:00pm |
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Learning About Ourselves
and Each Other: How Reading Diverse Text Promotes
Tolerance and Boundary-Stretching
This workshop will engage participants in
discussion and activity that identifies ways to engage
urban youth in literary pursuits that include reading
about and discussing literary texts by authors who are
culturally different or write about characters who are
different culturally in any way ranging from ethnicity
and religion to nationality and gender. |
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Instructor: Khadijah Ali-Coleman |
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Poems as Speech Acts and
Accommodating Forms
Workshop participants will read aloud and analyze
three to four contemporary poems by different poets and
discuss how our attitudes, beliefs, and our
understanding of diction, tone, and context influence us
to arrive at the poet's intended meaning. |
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Instructor: Charles H. Lynch |
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| Re:Verse is presented by The
Literary Freedom Project, a 501(c)3 tax-exempt not-for-profit arts
organization that supports the literary arts through education, creative
thinking, and new media. Additional support was provided by the
Bronx Council on the Arts, Backlist, and Hostos Community College. |
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The Literary Freedom Project is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt
not-for-profit arts organization that supports the literary arts through
education, creative thinking, and new media.
