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Direct linkWhelan, Debra Lau – School Library Journal, 2007
This article presents Alan Sitomer, an English teacher at Lynwood High School, and how he teaches his students classic literature through hip-hop. These at-risk students attend a severely overcrowded, low-performing school in East Los Angeles that's surrounded by what Sitomer describes as "gangs, guns, and drugs." Prostitutes work the…
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), High Risk Students, English Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
