Taking students to visit community sites can provide rich, authentic experiences that inspire powerful personal responses. Often young rappers are\u2014as freestyler Toni Blackman put it\u2014\u201dstuck in style\u201d so writing about dramatic new experiences forces them to experiment. African-American high school students who participated in City Lore\u2019s Poetry Dialogues project worked with poets Toni Blackman and Kewulay Kamara to write poems based on their experience of visiting St. Augustine\u2019s Church, on Manhattan\u2019s Lower East Side, where slaves and former slaves were separated from White parishioners in a \u2018slave gallery\u2019 above the main sanctuary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Taking students to visit community sites can provide rich, authentic experiences that inspire powerful personal responses. Often young rappers are\u2014as freestyler Toni Blackman put it\u2014\u201dstuck in style\u201d so writing about dramatic new experiences forces them to experiment. African-American high school students who participated in City Lore\u2019s Poetry Dialogues project worked with poets Toni Blackman and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_subject":[30],"resource_type":[36],"ll_theme":[83],"reading_topic":[71],"class_list":["post-274891","resource","type-resource","status-publish","hentry","class_subject-english-and-language-arts","resource_type-research-and-readings","ll_theme-narrative","reading_topic-engaging-equity-and-diversity"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n