2. Qualities of Spoken Word I blow a C with my harmonica. . .Ready to sing out your poems? . . .I ask my choir, uno, dos and three.

3. What do these phrases Mean? Infusing student rhythms into the classroom beat? Craft their feelings and reflections, their way of talking back to an unfair world. Sophisticated code-swithcher. Out of school literacy practices. “Open mic ideology”

4. “Just being chosen makes you beautiful.”

5. What do these statements Mean to you? • My students’ prior knowledge is profoundly respected by me, and at some level exalted. • The more you can speak about yourself and the world around you, the more powerful you can become. • “The Language of Wider Communication” vs. Standard English. • Using the energy of their connections to drive us through the content.

6. Why? Why would students go to the doors of the library or the botanical garden and not go in?

7. The Climate of Read and Feed Each student is “clapped in and clapped out” Identify an “exact phrase” and explain why you liked it. Teacher listens as an engaged learner. Listening is an active, relational, interpretive process that is focused on making meaning. How is the Power Writing Culture ‘created?’

8. Reading the Climate What did Joe ‘read’ in his students’ behavior when they began to “squeal” (fake cry) as Kenya was reading her poem about her father?

9. Inserting Student Rhythm history music language Spoken Word anger • School relevant Skills • 1 • 2 • 3 • 4