OBJECTIVES:
Institute participants will learn proven, hands-on techniques that will help them to develop lesson plans and strengthen their course study, as well as create a platform from which they will understand the scope of hip-hop history, culture and politics. The night programming consists of an all-star cast of lecturers and performers who will synthesize the day trainings with effective strategies and cutting-edge multicultural educational approaches.
| Chang, Jeff. Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005. | |
| - Read Chapters 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10 & 11 | |
| Ed. Delpit, Lisa and Kilgour Dowdy, Joanne. The Skin That We Speak. New York: The New Press, 2002. | |
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- Read “Ovuh Dyuh” by Joanne Kilgour Dowdy, pg.3. - Read “Ebonics: A Case History” by Ernie Smith, pg. 15. - Read “Trilingualism” by Judith Baker, pg. 49. - Read “Some Basic Sociolinguistic Concepts” by Michael Stubbs, pg. 63 - Read “I ain’t writin’ nuttin’” by Gloria Ladson-Billings, pg. 107 |
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| Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000. | |
| - Read Introduction, Chapters 1 & 2 | |
| For participants taking the course for one credit, they will be required to: | |
| - Attend ALL course sessions - Read ALL required readings, as well as in class participation - Create and Present one lesson plan that utilizes either hip-hop lyrics, or spoken word piece. Lesson plan must follow attached template, and include 1 source material for comparison, i.e. a piece of literature, historical document, poem, literary device/technique, etc. |
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| For participants taking course for two credits, they will be required to: | |
| - Complete all of the above - Create and Present lesson plan must utilize 2-3 source materials for cross comparison. |
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| For participants taking course for 3 credits, they will be required to: | |
| - Complete all of the above - Utilize attached template to conduct observational data/qualitative research that will be used to complete a course guide that collects and synthesizes each teaching session presented over the course of the week. This project will be done in groups/research teams. |
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