American Voices: Listening to Fiction, Poetry, and Prose

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 08.02.05

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction/Rationale
  2. Objectives
  3. African American Identity
  4. Langston Speaks (excerpt)
  5. Stop the Violence/Teaching Tolerance
  6. Technology Integration/Media clips: According to ABCnews7Chicago.com
  7. Hip Hop Artist Speaks: Hurricane Katrina
  8. Point of View: Using the N-WORD!!!
  9. My Student's Respond
  10. Lessons in Voice
  11. Dr. King
  12. Dreams Deep-Fried
  13. Appendix A: Assessment Rubric "Lift Every Voice"
  14. Appendix B :Goals/Illinois Standards
  15. Bibliography
  16. Notes

Lift Every Voice and Sing An Analysis of Social Change "Hope" through Voices of Hip-Hop

Sharon Monique Ponder

Published September 2008

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Bibliography

ABC7 News'Charles Thomas and Ben Bradley on Wednesday, September 26, 2008 at 10:35p.m. Now available on-demand ABC7Chicago.com

ABC7Chicago.com: Student Chavez shot to death near Simeon High School 3/29/08

Afro American Fragments by Langston Hughes written in 1930, published by Knopf and vintage books, copyright@ 1994 by the Estate of Langston Hughes, all rights reserved. Permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.

Ali, Muhammed, Statement made April 28, 1967 when drafted in the U.S. Army during the war in Vietnam in which he refused to go based on discrimination practices on America.

Allen, Janet, Words, Words, Words Teaching Vocabulary in Grades 4-12 Stenhouse Publihers Portland Maine 1999

Alvarez, Julia On Finding a Latino Voice. The Washington Post Book World 14 May 1995: 1.

Alvarez, Julia "My English," "The First Muse,Of Maids and Other Muses, So Much Depends, Dona Aida, with Your Permission, from Something to Declare, Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 1998.

Baker, Houston A. Blues, Ideology and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory, Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1984.

Baldwin, James. If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? New York Times (July 29, 1979).

Bernard, Emily. Teaching the N-Word; The American Scholar. 2005

Bethune Mary Mcleod, Last Will and Testament A Legacy for Race Vindication, Journal of Negro History. 8 (1/4)p. 105-122 Source: Bethune Cookman University

Countee Cullen poem excerpt from the "Incident" 1925:opyright 1925 Harper & Bros., renewed by Ida M. Cullen

Elbow, Peter Writing &Voice, Writing with Power. ed New York Oxford University Press 1998.

Elbow, Peter, ed. Landmark Essays on Voice and Writing, Mahwah. NJ: Hermagoras Press, 1994

Elliot, T. S. The Three Voices of Poetry, New York: Cambridge UP, 1954

Freire, Paulo Education as the Practice of Freedom 1967: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Jan 25 2001.

Fleming, Robert. The Wisdom of The Elders, Ballantine Books 1996

Gibson, Walker The Speaking Voice" and the teaching of Composition Landmark Essays on Voice and Writing, Mahwah, NJ: Hermagoras Press. 1994

Gilligan, Carol, In a Different Voice, Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993

Golden, Tim "Oakland Scratches Plan to Teach Black English," The New York Times (January 13, 1997).

Hansen, Drew D. The Dream: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a Nation

HBO: Photograph taken from HBO Documentary films/When The Levees Broke: A Requeim in four Acts;2008 Home Box Office, Inc, All Rights Reserved.

HBO: Quote taken from HBO Documentary films/When The Levees Broke: A Requeim in four Acts;2008 Home Box Office, Inc, All Rights Reserved.

Hooks, Bell When I was a Young Soldier for the Revolution: Coming to Voice.

Hudson, Wade, Powerful Words Writing by African Americans Scholastic Inc. 2004

James Weldon Johnson, The lines here are from the celebrated Negro National Anthem titled "Lift Every Voice and Sing" written 1899.

Jones, Gayl. Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1991

Kwaito is a music genre that emerged in Johannesburg South Africa in early 1990's. Kwaito was born in Soweto, one of the townships where blacks were forced to live during the time of Apartheid, spreading into other parts of Africa similar to American Hip Hop.

Lindberg-Seyersted, Brita. The Voice of the Poet: Aspects of Style in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1968.

Nathan, Leonard, Private 'I' in Contemporary Poetry. Shenandoah 22.4 (1971): 80-89

Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath, Ed. Elise Paschen and Rebekah Presson Moody, Naperville, Il: Sourcebooks Medial-Fusion,, 2001.

Portelli, Alessandro, The Text and the Voice: Writing, Speaking and Democracy in American Literature.

Simonetta, Joseph, Seven Words That Can Change The World Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc. Charlottesville, Va 2001

Tupac Shakur Album Still I Rise released December 21, 1999, label:Interscope, title track "The Good Die Young, Source: Tupac-online.com

Wayne, Lil lyrics Tie My Hands from the CD titled" The Carter III/Cash Money Records

We Shall Overcome; A song of protest used during the Civil Rights Movement/musical composition by Charles Tindley; Pete Seeger one of the first artist to record the song 1900's Source:University of Virginia Library: Lift Every Voice/Exhibit: Music in American Life

West, Kanye Torrent of Criticism, Live on NBC by Lisa de Morales Saturday, September 3, 2005; Page C01 WashingtonPost.com

Wikipedia.org Hurricane Katrina Facts/source: Definition of the term "nigger" source

Wills Garry, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

Wilson, Sharon. A Conversation with Alice Walker Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and K. A. Appiah. New York Amistad, 1993. 319-25

Wright, Richard, Eight Men, Harper Collins Publishers Inc. New York 1996

Wright, Richard, 12 Million Black Voices, New York Thunder's Mouth Press New York, 1988

Young Jeezy: title track Airforces CD titled Thug Motivation 101 Def Jam Records sources/elyrics

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