“Untold Stories”: Cultivating Consequential Writing with a Black Male Student through Metaphor
Channel: National Writing Project
Date: 02/03/2020

This author discussion features Sakeena Everett, Andrea Zellner, Anna Smith, Joe Dillon, and Remi Kalir. The piece being discussed, "'Untold Stories': Cultivating Consequential Writing with a Black Male Student through a Critical Approach to Metaphor," shares Sakeena Everett’s work learning alongside a student in a summer program called “We Choose to Learn.” This university-based program was designed to prepare high school students of color&mdash;like her student Shawn&mdash;for college, and to engage them in learning opportunities that also drew upon their career interests in education. This rich ethnographic account calls attention to the way in which Everett supported Shawn to develop writing that lead him toward action against inequity.



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