October 27, 2017
OWP director Linda Christensen has revised her teaching of language arts resource, Reading, Writing, and Rising Up
A fully revised 2nd edition offers essays, teaching models and student collections.
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For almost two decades, teachers have looked to Reading, Writing, and Rising Up as a trusted text to integrate social justice teaching in language arts classrooms. This accessible, encouraging book has been called “a profound work of emancipatory pedagogy” and “an inspiring example of tenacious and transformative teaching.”
Now, Christensen is back with a fully revised 2nd edition. Offering essays, teaching models, and a remarkable collection of student writing, Christensen builds on her catalog of social justice scholarship with a set of tools and wisdom for teachers in the new millennium.
The new edition includes:
- Updated classic chapters: “Unlearning the Myths that Bind Us” and “Standard English: Whose Standard?”
- New essays and strategies on teaching literature, the college essay, and the revision of student writing.
- Lessons for teaching about gentrification, displacement, and historical fiction.
- Evocative new pieces of student essays, narrative, and poetry.
