Letters for the Living: Teaching Writing in a Violent AgeThis book takes up issues of violence in the lives of college students and looks for possibilities of teaching composition as an act of peace making. Through a variety of writings, the book illustrates students' experiences on the city streets of New York and in the small mining and steel towns of western Pennsylvania. One section of the book reports on a project that linked one author/educator's (Hurlbert) research writing class and the other author/educator's (Blitz) freshman composition II class. In the semester-long project, the classes researched and wrote about their own neighborhoods and the neighborhoods of their interstate partners. The book states that these two groups of students taught each other about the places in which they live and the ways in which they live there, and in many cases, what each learned about the other was "shocking." It also shares with the reader letters in which the two author/educators reflect upon their work as teachers, in an effort to understand the personal and cultural implications of what students write and say. (Contains 101 references.) (NKA). |
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... hear things . When we read , we find things . What do we do with what we hear and find ? Do we turn a deaf ear ? Do we look the other way or look only at sentences and paragraphs and style and form ? Do we remind students of the end ...
... hear things . When we read , we find things . What do we do with what we hear and find ? Do we turn a deaf ear ? Do we look the other way or look only at sentences and paragraphs and style and form ? Do we remind students of the end ...
Page 91
... hear of " minorities " scoring higher in basic skills , but on the same newspaper page we're informed of their dismal showing in higher - order thinking skills . We hear of the occasional school exemplifying urban excellence , but we ...
... hear of " minorities " scoring higher in basic skills , but on the same newspaper page we're informed of their dismal showing in higher - order thinking skills . We hear of the occasional school exemplifying urban excellence , but we ...
Page 102
... hear this story at least a million times when I was growing up . I was surprised to hear how much violence there is in your neighborhood . As I said in my previous letter , my neighborhood is really small , and all that are in it is ...
... hear this story at least a million times when I was growing up . I was surprised to hear how much violence there is in your neighborhood . As I said in my previous letter , my neighborhood is really small , and all that are in it is ...
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