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Making Connections for Media Literacy: Hip-Hop and the Civil Rights Movement
BUILDING TRULY COLLABORATIVE
PARTNERSHIPS WITH TEACHER
KATE POLE, [email protected]
LATRICE [email protected]
UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL, NORMAL, IL
Before we start please tell us what teacher/librarian collaboration is like at your school?• What obstacles have you faced?• What about triumphs?• What would your ideal teacher/librarian
relationships look like?
Provide strategies to advance through the FOUR stages of teacher/librarian collaboration that we’ve identified
STAGE 1-Librarian as Invisible STAGE 2-Librarian as Consultant STAGE 3-Librarian as Professional (Doctor/Nurse)
STAGE 4-Librarian as Collaborator and Instructor We want to help you move to the next step and tell
you about how our lesson “Hip-Hop and the Civil Rights Movement” came to be
OBJECTIVES FOR THIS SESSION
What’s going on at this stage: Very little interaction with teachers. Mostly they just use your
space in a completely flex environment. In a fixed environment, teachers use the library as a drop spot.
What you can do to move to the next stage: Start connecting with kids first. Get to know the student
body. Programming is a great 1st step Attack those newbies
Get on the agenda for new teacher orientation. Begin advertising your skill set
Can you update the library webpage? Send tech tools emails Be persistent. Try to get curriculum maps and syllabi.
STAGE 1: LIBRARIAN AS INVISIBLE
What’s happening at this stage? Drop in lessons-Teacher asks for help 1 or 2 days in advance
Usually no real idea about what project students are working on You’re not involved in any planning or assessment
What you can do to move beyond this stage? Assess your students and their needs through some type of
information literacy assessment Be annoyingly persistent. Sell yourself. Use whatever tactics you
can! (Lunch with the Librarian; Covert syllabus stealing operations) Appeal to your administrators-You need them in your corner to
encourage teachers to see your value. Use the language
Common Core standards Danielson Model
STAGE 2: LIBRARIAN AS CONSULTANT
What happening at this stage? Teachers approach you about research based projects
You are involved in planning, but just for teaching information literacy skills and rarely involved in assessment.
You’re the nurse, they’re the doctors
What can you do to move beyond this stage? At this stage, it’s all about building relationships with your
teachers! Attending meetings, events
Be annoyingly persistent, and keep selling yourself. Go beyond their expectations http://raceuhigh.weebly.com/ http://latric6.wix.com/hissym2014
STAGE 3: LIBRARIAN AS PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANT
THIS IS THE HOLY GRAIL!! At this stage you’ve built trust, students and teachers
know you well Teachers view you as a co-teacher (i.e. NOT as though
you’re a nurse and they’re doctors) You are involved in the planning, development, and
assessment of the lesson
You may be at diff erent stages with diff erent teachersAfter going through all of this, I finally made it this
point with a few teachers. This lesson came out of that work…
STAGE 4: LIBRARIAN AS COLLABORATOR AND INSTRUCTOR
Objectives Students will understand
how music was a form of protest
Students will understand the connection between the Harlem Renaissance, Black Power Movement, and modern hip-hop music
Students will understand the impact that racism has on masculinism
Student will understand the misogynistic consequences of this masculinism
MANHOOD AND CIVIL RIGHTS: THE PROBLEMATIC CONSTRUCTION OF BLACK
MASCULINITY IN HIP-HOP
THE RESOURCES
Students chose between two topics: Tupac and Kanye West lyrics
Tupac “Keep Ya Head Up” and “I Get Around” Kanye West “All Falls Down” and “The New Work-out Plan” Pick one of the above artists and compare and contrast the song
lyrics from their songs. How do the lyrics represent the concept of masculinism? What tensions do you notice when you compare the two songs?
“U.N.I.T.Y” by Queen Latifah vs. “Beez in the Trap” by Nicki Minaj Analyze the lyrics and album cover of Nicki Minaj’s “Beez in the
Trap” and Queen Latifah’s “U.N.I.T.Y.” Of the two, which song combats against masculinism and which song perpetuates masculinism? (Use textual evidence) Speculate as why female hip-hop artists like Queen Latifah might have diffi culty gaining success and popularity, and why artists like Nicki Minaj might be more successful.
THE ASSESSMENT
