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These conditions are detailed in the history of Olaudah Equiano, captured in 1756 at the age of 11. Eventually he became a slave to an Englishman, taught himself to read, bought his freedom, became an abolitionist, and Cartier Replica wrote a book—his autobiography. In it, Erika told the students, he wrote about the Middle Passage […]

Through their photos and writings these urban youth revealed how their perspectives on writing tasks and literacy practices both influence and are impacted by an array of individuals. These include more and different people than many teachers might have known in our own adolescent lives, such as school support staff, new and unexpected friends, and […]

The second theme that became evident was the foundational role of teachers’ relationships—and youths’ relationships with other individuals—in supporting student writing success. These young adults valued teachers who interacted with them as people and who cared about them as more than one of the dozens of students teachers meet in a day. They don’t want […]

As veteran urban English teachers, we have been troubled by the apparently limited value many of our high school students see for our curricula and school in general. We have heard more than a few students complain about the insignificance of the books we use, the literacy tasks we assign, and the very character Cartier […]

With the publication of the Carnegie Report on middle and high school literacy (Biancarosa & Snow, 2004), the International Reading Association’s position statement on adolescent literacy (Moore et al., 1999), and the RAND (2002) report on reading comprehension, adolescent literacy has become a major issue for education and policy. The findings of this study can […]