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In this guide for high school teachers, Buckley, a veteran high school English teacher, offers suggestions for teaching critical literacy with poetry and activities based on writing, performance, and debate. She begins by reviewing theory and research that supports this approach to teaching, offering a rationale for using poetry, performance, and creative writing to improve students' reading and writing abilities overall. In the next section, each practice chapter contains four lessons. Ideas are described for teaching close reading through performance and recitation; these strategies are then applied to assignments based on developing summaries and claims to support them. The book includes about 50 pages of student handouts, worksheets, and readings. Buckley is director of curriculum and instruction for the Pershing Network in Chicago Public Schools. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Through Eileen Murphy Buckley’s 360-degree approach to teaching critical literacy, students investigate texts through a full spectrum of learning modalities, harnessing the excitement of performance, imitation, creative writing, and argument/debate activities to become more powerful thinkers, readers, and writers.Youth culture is rich with poetry, from song lyrics that teens read, listen to, and write, to poetry they perform through slams and open mics. The rich, compact language of poetry both inside and outside the classroom plays a valuable role in bridging the divide between youth culture and academic culture. Whether we call it “critical literacy” or just “making meaning,” being able to read and analyze with precision and judgment empowers all students, not just in their academic courses but in everyday situations that require thoughtful evaluation and response. Through Eileen Murphy Buckley’s 360-degree approach to teaching critical literacy, students investigate texts through a full spectrum of learning modalities, harnessing the excitement of performance, imitation, creative writing, and argument/debate activities to become more powerful thinkers, readers, and writers.
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