National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention 2017

Black Body as a Metaphor:

This roundtable will model strategies for reading and engaging in discussions about race through a rhetorical and critical lens. Through the use of culturally relevant, intellectually challenging, and thought provoking texts, the aim is to allow students opportunities for expression and to develop skills for citing evidence, identifying central ideas and theme, determining the meaning of words, and analyzing rhetoric. The presentation will also include elements of hip-hop pedagogy. Due to time constraints, the activities will only focus reading and speaking, but the presentations will include writing extensions for subsequent lessons.

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