GRDG626: Language, Literacy, and Diversity in American Education

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GRDG626 Language, Literacy, and Diversity in
American Education

• Popular Culture and Diversity
• Dr. Gloria E. Jacobs

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Agenda

• Sharing
• Example of spoken word performance
• Writing Activity
• Break
• Discussion
• Next Week

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Examples of Spoken Word

• Hebrew Mamita
• Taylor Mali "What Teachers Make
• Daniel Beaty Knock Knock
• Sarah Kay Hands

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Alfred Tatum Video

• Reading for their life
• Reading and writing for resiliency

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Writing Activity

• What do you notice about the spoken word
  performance?
• Write your own
• Share with a small group

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Break
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Discussion

• Cocktail party - circulate around the room and
  collect ideas. Discuss with as many different
  people as you can about each of the texts.
• Compton Lilly, Performance Poetry, Redd Webb,
  Tatum
• Find at least one person with an insight new to
  you
• Find at least one person who has a similar insight

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Whole Group

• Form 6 random groups
• Each group lead discussion on one of the readings
• Group 1 Compton-Lilly
• Group 2 Performance Poetry
• Group 3 5 Redd Webb
• Group 4 6 - Tatum

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What is a Literature Review?

• An examination of research into a focused area of
  inquiry.
• A synthesis of the research in order to answer a
  question
• not a book report
• not an annotated bibliography
• Template available on the wiki

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Literature Review Prep.

• Look over the questions you wrote thus far this
  semester
• Recurring pattern?
• Something compelling?
• Think about the papers youve written thus far.
  Is there you noticed you would like answers to.
• Develop several possible topics/questions to
  investigate through a literature review

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Next Week

• Read Mills chapter (on wiki)
• Meet in Library 100
• Bring your possible questions/topics
• Workshop by Kathi Sigler on advanced literature
  searches
• Will spend time searching and collecting
  literature for your paper
• Minilesson on writing the literature review
• Watch APA review (on wiki)