Rationale
Although my students come from communities where they are observing a great deal of regentrification, where rising property values and rents are challenging many of our families to remain in our school community, each day they enter my classroom I want them to feel welcomed and challenged creatively. I teach performing arts to over 400 students from pre-kindergarten thru 8th grades so my lessons and activities are differentiated and aim to increase students' understanding, appreciation and critical real-world perceptions of performance and poetry as art forms. Some of their favorite graphic novels are A Long Way Down, by Jason Reynolds; I Am Alphonso Jones, by Medina; Monster, by Walter Dean Myers; and Captain Underpants, by Dav Pilkey. They enjoy performing poetry readings, improv, films, poetry and reader’s theater focus on elements of theatrical practice.
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