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Writing America: Classroom Literacy and Public Engagement

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Writing America: Classroom Literacy and Public Engagement by Sarah Robbins and Mimi Dyer provides guidelines and practical examples for the classroom teacher interested in engaging students in the community. This series of short, highly readable essays make the case for engaging students in researching, writing, and reflecting about their communities and their own place in those communities. Classroom teachers and college professors describe in specific detail, hands-on, personal, and innovative projects they developed with their students. The best, including: Sylvia Martinez' "Discovering the Power of My Place", LeeAnn Lands', "A City Too Busy To Reflect?", and Peggy Corbett's "History Happened Here" provide examples of student writing, and explain the successes as well as challenges of these projects. Writing America invites classroom teachers to try new strategies, and encourages them to continue to keep instruction relevant in their students' lives, and to use the classroom to help build, and rebuild American community.