Lehigh Valley Writing Project

Hello, Fellows and Friends!

COVID continues to challenge our daily teaching lives in numerous ways; however, it is the hope of LVWP that we can once again begin conversations around our students, their languages, and the expression of their ideas on the page.

Lisa Delpit's text, The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom, provides rich opportunities to learn about the role of language and provides a "thoughtful exploration of the varieties of English we speak and the politics, power, and identity issues embedded in them."

If you are interested in joining an online book discussion of Delpit's text with teachers from across the Lehigh Valley, please complete the Google Form below.

**A limited number of texts are available for pick-up at Penn State's Center Valley campus.

LVWP Book Discussion Sign-Up-- The Skin That We Speak Please use the following form to sign-up to participate in Lehigh Valley Writing Project's three-part discussion of Lisa Delpit's The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom. Our goal in discussing this text is to become more familiar with the politics, power, and ident...

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Dates: June 15 & 17, 2020
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Greetings Fellows & Friends!

Please join Penn State LVWP in creating primary sources that capture the individual & shared experiences of living through the COVID-19 Pandemic. Whether you keep a detailed daily journal, a line-a-day journal, or just spend some time capturing your feelings during this time with captioned photos on social media, it is important to recognize that one day these documentations will comprise primary sources of information for those seeking to understand this period of history.

Journals, letters, photographs, & personal narratives offer much to the study of history, including the power to humanize events and build empathy across generations. With that knowledge in mind, LVWP is offering a number of ways to share the stories, experiences, photos, and reflections of our community during this historic time period.

Today, we are providing a four-square tool to help facilitate daily conversation around current events and to empower students to process their observations, questions, thoughts, and actions during the on-going quarantine period.

Feel free to share the tool widely & don't forget to share how you are creating primary sources around the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Wishing you well!
Nicole

Pandemic See, Hear, Wonder, Do See, Hear, Wonder, & Do During COVID-19 Pandemic for Primary Source Creation, a Penn State Lehigh Valley Writing Project Living History Initiative Today’s Date:__________________________________ TODAY I SEE... TODAY I HEAR... TODAY I WONDER... TODAY I p...