Rhythm and Resistance: Teaching Poetry for Social Justice

by Linda Christensen and Renée Watson

Book Overview

Offering practical lessons about how to teach poetry to build community, understand literature and history, talk back to injustice, and construct stronger literacy skills across content areas and grade levels--from elementary school to graduate school. Rhythm and Resistance reclaims poetry as a necessary part of a larger vision of what it means to teach for justice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0942961617
• ISBN13: 9780942961614
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Rethinking Schools
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.8" x 10.7"