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Writing America: Clasroom Literacy and Public Engagement » (New Edition)

Book cover image of Writing America: Clasroom Literacy and Public Engagement by Sarah Robbins

Authors: Sarah Robbins, Mimi Dyer (Editor), Paul Lauter
ISBN-13: 9780807745274, ISBN-10: 0807745278
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Date Published: November 2004
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: Sarah Robbins

Book Synopsis

This practical volume addresses teachers' most immediate and constant wish-to engage students in meaningful learning. Written by teachers affiliated with the National Writing Project, this engrossing collection presents examples of classroom-based community studies projects that showcase teachers' reflective practice in action, models for professional growth, collaborative staff development programs, and much more.

	Foreword
	Prologue : keeping and creating teachers' learning communities	1
1	Overview : classroom literacies and public culture	8
2	Discovering the power of my place : personal journeys to a community focus	27
3	From personal research to community learning	39
4	A city too busy to reflect? : public history, controversy, and civic engagement	50
5	Uncovering a region's past to build community today : collaborative learning about Cherokee heritage	64
6	I belong to this place : claiming a neighborhood landmark	74
7	Composing communities : college students become real research writers	83
8	Learning to write as a community : embracing collaborative process and product	99
9	Writing a museum	110
10	Building community through performance activities	119
11	Composing history : linking community stories in a music-drama-documentary	132
12	History happened here : engaging communities of students and teachers	143
	Afterword : keeping and creating American communities : American studies in theory and practice	157