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School of Hip Hop

Martha Diaz, President of the Hip Hop association and a former teacher in New York City created a book called __The Hip Hop Education Guide Book, Volume 1__. This book contains a series of lesson plans that validate and effectively use hip hop as an instructional tool. Unique Fraser, the director of a college preparatory program in New York City, wrote a lesson entitled " The Story I Right: Hip- Hop & Personal Narrative Writing." (Pride, 2007, p.24) This lesson helps students write a personal narrative for college applications. This can be particularly daunting for students who will be the first in their family to attend college. In this lesson, students analyze the lyrics to "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and use their analyses to help create their own narrative. " Teachers have a responsibility, " Fraser says, " to be flexible in how we approach academics, and we need to know who are audience is, just like authors." (Pride, 2007, p. 24-25)

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