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Voicing Ourselves

Name: Voicing Ourselves
Author: Christian Knoeller
ISBN: 9780791436585

by Christian Knoeller

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In a public high school classroom in the San Francisco Bay area, a group of twelfth graders has decided themselves to enroll for Advanced-Placement English. Faced with unprecedented diversity for such a class in terms of academic and ethnic backgrounds, veteran teacher Joan Cone dared to trust her students to lead their own discussions of a variety of provocative authors including Baldwin, Didion, Malcolm X, and Woolf. Voicing Ourselves examines a year's worth of such sessions, revealing how a teacher's role is transformed and, moreover, offering an important component in any teacher's repertoire of instructional strategies: student-led discussion. Above all, the book shows the startling success of students licensed to engage one another directly in talk about books, revealing the richly social tapestry of such conversations.

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Reveals lessons learned from a year of public high school seniors' discussions of authors including Baldwin, Malcolm X, and Woolf, in an advanced placement class of students with diverse academic and ethnic backgrounds. Shows the success of students encouraged to engage one another directly in talk about books, with many transcripts of student discussions, and situates Mikhail Bakhtin's theories alongside notions of voice put forth by composition theorists writing about voice for the past several decades. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.