We've Got Words: A High School Student's Guide to The Parts of Speech & Public Speaking (S.L.A.M. Lyrical Education Curriculum Series)

We’ve Got Words: A High School Student’s Guide To The Parts of Speech & Public Speaking is a practical learner’s guide to the 8 Parts of Speech and Public Speaking, providing students with a short and concise manual to understanding the basic grammatical elements of reading and writing sentences. This workbook is the 6th in the series. It is designed for grades 9-12. The scope of this workbook covers Public Speaking and the 8 Parts of Speech using lyrics in Spoken Word and Rap as instructional examples for all 8 parts of speech. This book is based on a classroom assignment in an AP class at Jackson High School in 2013-14. Logan Taylor accepted the challenge and wrote a Lyrical Dissertation titled We’ve Got Words. In this rap Logan systematically identified the parts of speech while expositing their meaning and usage. Based on Logan’s Rap, this workbook was created to help students understand English Grammar and thereby be prepared to read and write at Proficiency grade level.

Hakim Nathaniel Crampton is the Founding Director of A.M.E.N. 4 Youth, LLC where he oversees the implementation of S.L.A.M. Lyrical Education and S.T.A.R.S. for at-risk youth. He is a well known Urban Education and Youth Violence Prevention Advocate in which he is very active across the State of Michigan in partnering with statewide organizations and groups combating violence in schools and local communities impacted by gun violence and drugs. Crampton created the curriculum workbook series S.L.A.M. Spoken Lyrics with an Academic Mission, which engages academically low performing students with a unique academic mentorship fused with English Language Arts centered instruction using Spoken word, Lyrics, Song and Hip Hop history and education. S.L.A.M. is integrated with classroom course work, showing students how to turn their class assignments into a "Poetic Thesis" or what Hakim calls a Lyrical Dissertation, in the form of academic SLAMs with students competing for a grade or extra points. Crampton won the 2012 and 2014 Spoken Word Billboard Award for Educators/Advocators Community Achievement Award as well as the 2015 Community Impact Award from the Wolverine Bar Foundation for the work he does through AMEN 4 Youth, LLC.