Download or read book Language Arts Unit A Rap Textbook written by Rhys Langston Podell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language Arts Unit: A Rap Textbook is an exploration of rap as theory and praxis, race as form and content, music as social mobilizer and opiate. In a winding, discursive prefatory note Rhys Langston Podell utilizes a biting, absurdist humor to seriously appraise the power of words, music, and all manner of extra-lingual connotations in the age of rapid-transit information technologies. As the written half of a multimedia project, what follows are the lyrics from his long play album, written as poems with the clever enjambment of his characteristically idiosyncratic wordplay. Taken together, the prose and verse of Language Arts Unit present "two forms talking between themselves as a product and response to the context of their creation: in one aspect, to write a lyric essay with sentences as bars, proposing a new, verbose sense of realness in a take-no-prisoners rapper's ethos of [trash]-talking between paragraphs; from another angle, to craft a rap album of nuance and expressionist poetics, proposing the form as an essential means of delivering ideas, one able to communicate complexities on various levels of understanding and comprehension."

Download or read book Hip Hop Language Arts written by Michael Cirelli and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information and activities to help teachers connect the classroom language arts curriculum to hip-hop.

Download or read book Rap a Tap Tap written by Leo Dillon and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In illustrations and rhyme describes the dancing of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, one of the most famous tap dancers of all time. A brief Afterword outlines his career.

Download or read book Essentials of Integrating the Language Arts written by David Yellin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: B.11 Sports Books

Download or read book This Life written by Quntos KunQuest and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Life is the debut novel by Quntos KunQuest, a longtime inmate at Angola, the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary. This marks the appearance of a bold, distinctive new voice, one deeply inflected by hiphop, that delves into the meaning of a life spent behind bars, the human bonds formed therein, and the poetry that even those in the most dire places can create. Lil Chris is just nineteen when he arrives at Angola as an AU—an admitting unit, a fresh fish, a new vict. He’s got a life sentence with no chance of parole, but he’s also got a clear mind and sharp awareness—one that picks up quickly on the details of the system, his fellow inmates, and what he can do to claim a place at the top. When he meets Rise, a mature inmate who's already spent years in the system, and whose composure and raised consciousness command the respect of the other prisoners, Lil Chris learns to find his way in a system bent on repressing every means he has to express himself. Lil Chris and Rise channel their questions, frustrations, and pain into rap, and This Life flows with the same cadence that powers their charged verses. It pulses with the heat of impassioned inmates, the oppressive daily routines of the prison yard, and the rap contests that bring the men of the prison together. This Life is told in a voice that only a man who’s lived it could have—a clipped, urgent, evocative voice that surges with anger, honesty, playfulness, and a deep sense of ugly history. Angola started out as a plantation—and as This Life makes clear, black inmates are still in a kind of enslavement there. This Life is an important debut that commands our attention with the vigor, dynamism, and raw, consciousness-expanding energy of this essential new voice.

Download or read book Slam School written by Bronwen Low and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mainstream rap's seductive blend of sexuality, violence, and bravado hardly seems the stuff of school curricula. And chances are good that the progressive and revolutionary "underground" hip-hop of artists such as The Roots or Mos Def is not on the playlists of most high-school students. That said, hip-hop culture remains a profound influence on contemporary urban youth culture and a growing number of teachers are developing strategies for integrating it into their classrooms. While most of these are hip-hop generation members who cannot imagine leaving the culture at the door, this book tells the story of a white teacher who stepped outside his comfort zone into the rich and messy realm of student popular investments and abilities. Slam School takes the reader into the heart of a poetry course in an urban high school to make the case for critical hip-hop pedagogies. Pairing rap music with its less controversial cousins, spoken word and slam poetry, this course honored and extended student interests. It also confronted the barriers of race, class, gender, and generation that can separate white teachers from classrooms of predominantly black and Latino students and students from each other. Bronwen Low builds a surprising argument: the very reasons teachers might resist the introduction of hip-hop into the planned curriculum are what make hip-hop so pedagogically vital. Class discussions on topics such as what one can and cannot say in the school auditorium or who can use the N-word raised pressing and difficult questions about language, culture and identity. As she reveals, an innovative, student-centered pedagogy based on spoken word curriculum that is willing to tolerate conflict, as well as ambivalence, has the potential to air tensions and lead to new insights and understandings for both teachers and students.

Download or read book Pathways to Literacy Excellence Language Arts Workbook Book 1 written by Scott and published by NewPath Learning. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increase reading & spelling activities through the exploration of phonetic variations. Leveled by spelling proficiency, the threebook series promotes abilities in phonics, punctuation, word families and grammar. Each book contains 40 units with each focused on three key sounds. A corresponding set of words is provided which demonstrates these sounds. Accompanying word study activities encourage students to explore word families and understand the concept of grouping words as nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs. Also investigates the spelling aberrations of the English language.

Download or read book Lila and the Crow written by Gabrielle Grimard and published by Annick Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lila is bullied because of her dark skin, but the crows have a solution for that! Lila has just moved to a new town and can't wait to make friends at school. But on the first day, a boy points at her and shouts: "A crow! A crow! The new girl's hair is black like a crow!" The others whisper and laugh, and Lila's heart grows as heavy as a stone. The next day, Lila covers her hair. But this time, the boy points at her dark skin. When she covers her face, he mocks her dark eyes. Now every day at school, Lila hides under her turtleneck, dark glasses, and hat. And every day when she goes home, she sees a crow who seems to want to tell her something. Lila ignores the bird and even throws rocks at it, but it won't go away. Meanwhile, the great autumn festival is approaching. While the other kids prepare their costumes, Lila is sadder and lonelier than ever. At her lowest point of despair, a magical encounter with the crow opens Lila's eyes to the beauty of being different, and gives her the courage to proudly embrace her true self.

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts written by Diane Lapp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its third edition, the Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts—sponsored by the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English—offers an integrated perspective on the teaching of the English language arts and a comprehensive overview of research in the field. Prominent scholars, researchers, and professional leaders provide historical and theoretical perspectives about teaching the language arts focus on bodies of research that influence decision making within the teaching of the language arts explore the environments for language arts teaching reflect on methods and materials for instruction Reflecting important recent developments in the field, the Third Edition is restructured, updated, and includes many new contributors. More emphasis is given in this edition to the learner, multiple texts, learning, and sharing one’s knowledge. A Companion Website, new for this edition, provides PowerPoint® slides highlighting the main points of each chapter.

Download or read book Pathways to Literacy Excellence Language Arts Workbook Book 3 written by Scott and published by NewPath Learning. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increase reading & spelling activities through the exploration of phonetic variations. Leveled by spelling proficiency, the threebook series promotes abilities in phonics, punctuation, word families and grammar. Each book contains 40 units with each focused on three key sounds. A corresponding set of words is provided which demonstrates these sounds. Accompanying word study activities encourage students to explore word families and understand the concept of grouping words as nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs. Also investigates the spelling aberrations of the English language.

Download or read book Hip Hop Poetry and The Classics written by Alan Sitomer and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-04-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hip-Hop's literary and artistic merits are evident when compared to classic poetry and it's easy to link the great poets of the past to the contemporary Hip Hop poets of today: compare Robert Frost to Public Enemy, Shakespeare to Eminem, and Shelley to the Notorious B.I.G. This interactive workbook-style format is fun for teachers and students, as it illuminates the art of the written word with in-depth analysis of poetic literary devices, writing activities, and other innovative methods.

Download or read book Step by Step Book 2 Teacher s Guide written by Nick Coates and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 2018-03-26 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All you need to encourage a love and enthusiasm for reading and writing from a young age. Benefit from the experience of key educators across the Caribbean regions who have carefully designed this resource to give your students exactly the right introduction to the Language Arts curriculum. -Ensure a steady transition from Creole to Standard English with an introductory section on language acquisition in the Teacher Guides called Language Strategy. -Cover technicality of grammar, vocabulary and syntax using picture cues and writing as well as reading and reading comprehension. -Offer exposure to many different forms of text with a variety of different text types and genres. -Connect reading and writing with templates, to make sure that students don't fall behind and progress evenly with both. This book accompanies the Step by Step Student's Book 2, 9781510414167.

Download or read book Long Way Down written by Jason Reynolds and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger.” —Booklist (starred review) “Astonishing.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A tour de force.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award An Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017 A Vulture Best YA Book of 2017 A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2017 An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds’s electrifying novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds—the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother. A cannon. A strap. A piece. A biscuit. A burner. A heater. A chopper. A gat. A hammer A tool for RULE Or, you can call it a gun. That’s what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the rules. No crying. No snitching. Revenge. That’s where Will’s now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brother’s gun. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. He knows who he’s after. Or does he? As the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. Buck, Will finds out, is who gave Shawn the gun before Will took the gun. Buck tells Will to check that the gun is even loaded. And that’s when Will sees that one bullet is missing. And the only one who could have fired Shawn’s gun was Shawn. Huh. Will didn’t know that Shawn had ever actually USED his gun. Bigger huh. BUCK IS DEAD. But Buck’s in the elevator? Just as Will’s trying to think this through, the door to the next floor opens. A teenage girl gets on, waves away the smoke from Dead Buck’s cigarette. Will doesn’t know her, but she knew him. Knew. When they were eight. And stray bullets had cut through the playground, and Will had tried to cover her, but she was hit anyway, and so what she wants to know, on that fifth floor elevator stop, is, what if Will, Will with the gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, MISSES. And so it goes, the whole long way down, as the elevator stops on each floor, and at each stop someone connected to his brother gets on to give Will a piece to a bigger story than the one he thinks he knows. A story that might never know an END…if Will gets off that elevator. Told in short, fierce staccato narrative verse, Long Way Down is a fast and furious, dazzlingly brilliant look at teenage gun violence, as could only be told by Jason Reynolds.

Download or read book Clustering Standards in Integrated Units written by Diane L. Ronis and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2007-08-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides teachers with a framework for designing, implementing, and evaluating interdisciplinary units that integrate content and standards across multiple curriculum areas.

Download or read book A Guide for Using The Great Kapok Tree in the Classroom written by Lynn DiDominicis and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 1997 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching literature unit based on the popular children's story, The great kapok tree.

Download or read book The ESL ELL Teacher s Book of Lists written by Jacqueline E. Kress and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-10-13 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything educators need to know to enhance learning for ESL students This unique teacher time-saver includes scores of helpful, practical lists that may be reproduced for classroom use or referred to in the development of instructional materials and lessons. The material contained in this book helps K-12 teachers reinforce and enhance the learning of grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and writing skills in ESL students of all ability levels. For easy use and quick access, the lists are printed in a format that can be photocopied as many times as required. A complete, thoroughly updated glossary at the end provides an indispensable guide to the specialized language of ESL instruction.

Download or read book What Really Works in Elementary Education written by Wendy W. Murawski and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research-based practical strategies for every teacher This book compiles the advice of experts who not only understand the research behind certain educational practices, but also have experience working in elementary classrooms. Each user-friendly chapter, focused on a topic vital to elementary educators, presents information in a straightforward way to help you learn what works – and what doesn't – with students today. Whether you’re a new educator, or just seeking to build new skills, you’ll benefit from: Insight into a handful of innovative topics in instruction, including using technology, UDL, co-teaching, and assessment Novel approaches to classroom management and strategies to engage students Useful reproducibles and resources for every topic area