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Integrating Hip-Hop Into The Classroom

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In working with urban areas, I give back to my local community as a leader of LEAP, an after-school program at Jefferson Elementary in Lennox. In this position, I work in conjunction with another leader to develop and implement exciting and creative curriculum for a classroom of students ranging from kindergarten to fifth grade, taking into consideration their diverse ages to ensure participation from all students. When lesson planning with my co-leader, we incorporate her passion for art and my interest in literature into our activities. For example, we instructed the students to work collaboratively to create a storybook where each student is responsible for a page, granting them their own creative freedom. One of the groups, led by Edgar, …show more content…

I plan to substantiate the claim that hip-hop is ripe for critical analysis at the same level as written poetry and literature. I have read works such as Julius Bailey’s The Cultural Impact of Kanye West, which assesses hip-hop’s value as an art form and its cultural relevance. The text inspired me to model my potential lessons after the various essays in the book that approach Kanye’s music from a racial injustice standpoint and a feminist standpoint, emphasizing the various lenses the genre can be viewed through. For example, I plan to have my students craft essays where they weigh the misogyny in hip-hop with rare cases of female empowerment by providing examples from each side, such as Ice Cube and Queen Latifah, in order to motivate them to challenge the misogyny they encounter in their own lives. Every week, I also plan to challenge my students to write and perform their own rhymes on a given topic, in order to sharpen their technical proficiency, while also emphasizing the performative property of poetry. I believe that by incorporating this genre into a high school curriculum, it will inspire students to realize that they can apply their critical lens to mediums other than written texts. Additionally, I hope to better connect with my students by sharing my genuine passion and love for the hip-hop genre with them. In urban communities, this will allow students of color to reclaim the value and credibility that has often been stripped away of a black art form such as

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