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Publication Date: 2008-May
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"Do You Remember": Confronting Post-9/11 Censorship through Critical Questioning and Poetic Devices
Staples, Jeanine M.
English Journal, v97 n5 p81-87 May 2008
Jeanine M. Staples led a group of students, ages fourteen to eighteen, in developing a critical stance about words and images found in 9/11 media. Through questions, comments, and declarations toward these texts, the students labeled as "disengaged" actively participated in constructing a collaborative poem to confront repressive thinking. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Poetry, Terrorism, Coping, Stress Management, Censorship, Adolescents, Secondary School Students, Writing (Composition), Youth Leaders, Urban Schools, African American Students
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