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

Linda Christensen

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Synopsis

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.

Updated classic chapters:
  • 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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Review

Linda Christensen has distilled her four decades of work with students in a rainbow classroom into a masterpiece that is a must-read for teachers in this Black Lives Matter historical moment. --Geneva Smitherman, Ph.D. "University Distinguished Professor Emerita Department of English and African Studies Center Michigan State University"

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9780942961256: Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching About Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word

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ISBN 10:  0942961250 ISBN 13:  9780942961256
Publisher: Rethinking Schools Ltd, 2000
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