Every City Has Soldiers

Students will write TWO written summaries and critical analyses of the readings, viewings, and class discussions. Students will bring in a hard copy to class to workshop, and then upload their final draft onto the class Blackboard site in the Discussion Board corresponding with each paper due date. Analysis papers must be a minimum of 650 words and must include a minimum of TWO direct quotes (properly cited) from course readings and ONE link to a related online reading or video.   (RT) Aptowicz, Crisitn. Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam. 2008. New York: Soft Skull Press. (Part IV pp. 237-285). Watch: Melissa Lozada-Oliva: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me4_QwmaNoQ   (RT) Aptowicz, Crisitn. Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam. 2008. New York: Soft Skull Press. (Part IV con’t. pp. 236-364). (BB) Fisher, Maisha. “” Every City Has Soldiers”: The Role of Intergenerational Relationships in Participatory Literacy Communities.” Research in the Teaching of English (2007): 139-162.     Watch: Goldwater Productions. Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater, Sabrina Schmidt Gordon, (2016). Sonia Sanchez BaddDDD: A New Documentary.   (BB) Weinstein, Susan. “Pregnancy, pimps, and “clichéd love things”: Writing through gender and sexuality.” Written Communication 24.1 (2007): 28-48. Watch: Jared Singer  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwNiYFlHmWs     Watch: Season 3: HBO Studios. (2005). Russell Simmons presents, Def Poetry Jam, Season 3. BB) Shange, Ntozake. For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. Simon and Schuster, 2010. Watch: For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (Link to view is on BB)     (BB) Richardson, Elaine. “Race, class (es), gender, and age: The making of knowledge about language diversity.” Language diversity in the classroom: From intention to practice (2003): 40-66. Watch: Tonya Ingram: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbS9yNSQyAA