The Re:Verse Literary Conference
revitalizes the importance of books in the lives of young
people.
The conference presents creative ways for keeping literature and
books valuable sources of knowledge and creativity. This series
of professional-development workshops will help educators
incorporate literature into existing curricula to further
explore course work that focuses on cultures, history, and
social studies.
The mission is to bring a love of literature back into the
classroom in new, unique, and exciting ways.
2008 Re:Verse Literary Conference Highlights
Session
I: 12:00n-1:15pm
Conscious Women Rock the
Page: Using Hip Hop Fiction to Incite Social Change
Conscious Women Rock the Page to support
educators who wish to use hip-hop fiction in their
classrooms to explore social issues and promote activism
among their students.
Instructors: Jennifer Calderon, Elisha Miranda,
Sofia Quintero,
and Marcella Runell Hall
Puerto Rican and Dominican
Poetry in the Classroom
This workshop will explore the work of poets from the
rich cultural communities Puerto Rican and Dominican and
ways to use their work in the classroom.
Instructor: Rich Villar
Session
II: 1:30-2:45pm
Revisiting the Role of
Literature & Culture in the Classroom through Art & the
Written Word
Revisiting the Role of Literature will explore
the fusion of culture, literature, and visual arts in
new ways; global community building through literature;
and the role played by literature, art and the new media
in the creation of a heritage and cultural identity
Instructors: Gabrielle David and Nikita Hunter
The Bridge is Over:
Connecting Young Adults with Engaging, Age-Appropriate
Literature
The Bridge is Over will provide educators and
youth providers with strategies to identify and work
with engaging multicultural young adult literature.
Instructor: Felicia Pride/BackList
Lunch:
2:45-3:30pm
Session
III: 3:45-5:00pm
Learning About Ourselves
and Each Other: How Reading Diverse Text Promotes
Tolerance and Boundary-Stretching
This workshop will engage participants in
discussion and activity that identifies ways to engage
urban youth in literary pursuits that include reading
about and discussing literary texts by authors who are
culturally different or write about characters who are
different culturally in any way ranging from ethnicity
and religion to nationality and gender.
Instructor: Khadijah Ali-Coleman
Poems as Speech Acts and
Accommodating Forms
Workshop participants will read aloud and analyze
three to four contemporary poems by different poets and
discuss how our attitudes, beliefs, and our
understanding of diction, tone, and context influence us
to arrive at the poet's intended meaning.
Instructor: Charles H. Lynch
Re:Verse is presented by The
Literary Freedom Project, a 501(c)3 tax-exempt not-for-profit arts
organization that supports the literary arts through education, creative
thinking, and new media.Additional support was provided by the
Bronx Council on the Arts, Backlist, and Hostos Community College.
The Literary Freedom Project is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt
not-for-profit arts organization that supports the literary arts through
education, creative thinking, and new media.
The Literary Freedom Project is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt
not-for-profit arts organization that supports the literary arts through
education, creative thinking, and new media.
