LitChat Educators Event
Thursday 16 July
Time: 4.15pm - 6.00pm (light refreshments from 4.00pm)
Location: STEAM Centre, Whitsunday Anglican School
Tickets: $40 bookings essential (includes refreshments)
TEACH WITH BEATS
Presented by Dr Charlie Thomson
Explore how hip hop pedagogy can assist you teaching poetry and creative writing. Aligned with the Australian Curriculum, this practical, hands-on session supports:
English (Years 5–12): poetry, figurative language, text analysis, creative writing, oral presentation, audience awareness, authorial voice and Shakespeare studies
The Arts: rhythm, performance, composition and dramatic expression
General Capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding and Intercultural Understanding
Bring your creative writing unit and poetry program to life with an injection of hip hop music. This workshop will highlight poetic devices and how they are evident in hip hop lyrics, how your students can identify them and how you can write your own dope verse.
Drawing upon research in hip hop pedagogy, you will learn how the principles of this approach can be practically applied in the classroom and assist in developing literacy skills, creative writing capabilities and establishing a FUN classroom!
“I bomb atomically, Socrates’ philosophies and hypotheses/Can’t define how I be dropping these mockeries”
Earn professional development points. Certificates issued.
Whitsunday Voices have partnered with Larrikin House to bring classroom resources to you. Educators can browse before and after the LitChat Educators Event, now conveniently located in the STEAM Centre adjacent to the Festival Bookshop.
