Posts tagged "poetry"

A Turning Point

Hi all, welcome to the fifth make of the Revolutionary Poets Society. The Revolutionary Poets Society focuses on global opportunities to respond to the demands of the moment through poetry, music and art. We focus on the development of vocabulary and a set of critical, literacy, and performance approaches to help enable engagement with slam poems…

Shape of My Story

Hi all, welcome to the fourth make of the Revolutionary Poets Society! As a reminder, the Revolutionary Poets Society focuses on global opportunities to respond to the demands of the moment through poetry, music and art. We focus on the development of vocabulary and a set of critical, literacy, and performance approaches to help enable engagement with…

Recognizing the details

Hi all, welcome to the third make of the Revolutionary Poets Society! As a reminder, the Revolutionary Poets Society focuses on global opportunities to respond to the demands of the moment through poetry, music and art. We focus on the development of vocabulary and a set of critical, literacy, and performance approaches to help enable engagement with…

Where I’m From

Hi all, welcome to week two of the Revolutionary Poets Society! As a reminder, the Revolutionary Poets Society focuses on global opportunities to respond to the demands of the moment through poetry, music and art. We focus on the development of vocabulary and a set of critical, literacy, and performance approaches to help enable engagement with slam…

Where I Begin

Hi all, welcome to week two of the Revolutionary Poets Society! As a reminder, the Revolutionary Poets Society focuses on global opportunities to respond to the demands of the moment through poetry, music and art. We focus on the development of vocabulary and a set of critical, literacy, and performance approaches to help enable engagement with slam…

Explain who are you…to this day

Hi all, welcome to week one of the Revolutionary Poets Society! As a reminder, the Revolutionary Poets Society focuses on global opportunities to respond to the demands of the moment through poetry, music and art. We focus on the development of vocabulary and a set of critical, literacy, and performance approaches to help enable engagement…

Revolutionary Poets Society

I’m teaching a course on slam poetry as part of our first year experience (FYE) initiative here at CofC. This course is titled the “Revolutionary Poets Society” and it is a reboot of an after-school club I facilitated when I was teaching middle school. The Revolutionary Poets Society focuses on global opportunities to respond to the demands…

TechTalk 004 – RapGenius and PoetryGenius

This week we held our third TechTalk of the new year. TechTalk is a monthly show that focuses on specific digital texts or tools that should be used in your classroom. We view “classrooms” broadly as stretching from Pre-K up through 12th grade and into higher education. The show is meant to provide an easy, approachable…

Week Six of the #WALKMYWORLD Project

Welcome to Week Six, or more correctly, Learning Event Six of the #WALKMYWORLD Project. As we pass the mid-way point of the project, we ask that you continue to create and share your images, video, and audio clips online to Twitter using the #WALKMYWORLD hashtag. We will also continue to examine the work of Robert…