Brooklyn Community High School of Communications (BCAM), Arts & Media, Bedford-Stuyvesant, District 13

Visit 1: December 10, 2008
Visit 2: May 5, 2009
Visit 3: May 27, 2009

Kevin Powell, an essayist and candidate for Congress, worked with students in his Brooklyn neighborhood on a study of rhetoric and oratory.  After reading Mr. Powell’s book of essays Someday We’ll All Be Free, 11th-grade students wrote and delivered their own persuasive speeches.

In a study and branding and propaganda, 11th-grade students read Mr. Patton’s Under the Influence: Tracing the Hip Hop’s Generation’s Impact on Brands, Sports, and Pop Culture and Ms. Quart’s Branded: The Buying And Selling of Teenagers to study propaganda aimed at teens.  They then wrote essays about the influence of these types of propaganda on society and youth culture.

 

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