Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching About Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word

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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, Linda Christensen is back with a fully revised, updated version. Offering essays, teaching models, and a remarkable collection of student writing, Christensen builds on her catalog of social justice scholarship with a breathtaking set of tools and wisdom for teachers in the new millennium.

• Unlearning the Myths that Bind Us
• 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.




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