February 2, 2005

• "Jacqueline Woodson: Real Characters, Real Voices" (E-M-S), from Language Arts, explores the people and experiences that influence Woodson's writing.
• Walter Dean Myers takes us through what he calls his "adventure with language" in his article "And Then I Read . . ." (M-S), from Voices from the Middle.
• Nikki Giovanni's poetry is the focus of Childhood Remembrances: Life and Art Intersect in Nikki Giovanni’s “Nikki-Rosa” (M-S-C) , from ReadWriteThink. The lesson is based on an activity described in the NCTE title Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom: "the same ol' danger but a brand new pleasure" (S) by Carol Jago.
• Nikki Grimes stresses the power of poetry in her article "The Common Denominator" (E-M-S), from English Journal,
• Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God provides the resources for Style: Defining and Exploring an Author’s Stylistic Choices (S-C), from ReadWriteThink.
• "Charles Johnson's Middle Passage as Historiographic Metafiction" (C), from College English, outlines techniques for using Johnson's postmodern novel in the literature studies.
• Alice Walker, bell hooks, and Nikki Giovanni--all are explored in "Becoming a Writerly Self: College Writers Engaging Black Feminist Essays" (C), from College Composition and Communication, which asserts that personal essays by black feminist writers can be used to teach writers how to connect their personal and social identities.
  
  
  

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Initials in annotations indicate academic level of the resource (E=Elementary, M=Middle, S=Secondary, C=College, G=General).