Poetry and Public Life

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 17.03.08

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Background
  3. Rationale
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Activities
  6. Bibliography
  7. Teaching Resource
  8. Reading List for Students
  9. Appendix—Implementing District Standards
  10. Endnotes

America the Beautiful: A Look at Race and Acceptance in America through Poetry

Debra Titus

Published September 2017

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Endnotes

  1. Keto, Tsehlonae. The African Centered Perspective of History, 13
  2. Ibid
  3. Ginwright, Shawn. Black in School: Afrocentric reform, urban youth, and the promise of hip-hop culture, 16
  4. Ibid
  5. Watkins, William. Race and Education: The Roles of History and Society in Educating African American , 25
  6. Ibid
  7. Ibid
  8. Ibid
  9. Jones, Marvin D. Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet: America’s New Dilemma, 37
  10. Gabbin, Joanne. The Furious Flowering of African American Poetry, 64
  11. “African American Spirituals”
  12. Ibid
  13. Ibid
  14. Ibid
  15. Ibid
  16. Ibid
  17. Gabbin, Joanne. The Furious Flowering of African American Poetry, 77
  18. “A Reading Guide to Langston Hughes”
  19. Ibid
  20. Ibid
  21. “Why God Made Me Black”
  22. Jones, Marvin D. Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet: America’s New Dilemma, 58
  23. Ibid
  24. “Common Core State Standards”
  25. “I, Too, Sing America”
  26. “Changes”
  27. “Go Down Moses”
  28. Ibid

Comments:

Millard L Lowe

November 18, 2018 at 9:20 pm

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Contact Karma Lowe, Assistant Dean, Diversity Studies, Columbia University. I am impressed with your program and am honored to have one of my poems selected. You are right on with your analysis. Check out ON THE WAVES OF LOST MEMORIES.

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