The Writing Process and Hip Hop

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Creative Writing through Hip Hop!

Develop and strengthen students’ understanding of the creative writing process with an innovative approach: the exciting world of hip-hop songwriting! Using grade level content, Baba Bomani inspires and guides students as they plan, organize, write and revise their own personal writing. This highly engaging residency integrates SEL competencies including self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship skills.

NJSLS Standards

NJSLSA.W5.: Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
NJSLSA.W4.: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Kid Friendly Standards

We can produce clear, organized, and understandable writing.
We can write in an organized way with details.
We can listen to others’ ideas to revise and edit my writing to make it better.
We can plan, revise, edit, and rewrite my writing.
We can write to inform and explain ideas clearly.
We can try a new approach.

ELA/Writing ELA/Language SEL Competencies

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Meet Baba Bomani

Bomani Armah is “not a rapper, he’s a poet with a hip-hop style.” Bomani has been performing his brand of thought-provoking, head-nodding music on stages big and small for over 15 years for thousands of people of all ages, from schools, to churches, to nightclubs, to prisons.

Bomani uses his life experiences, mixed with his musical and poetic skills, to paint lyrical pictures of life as he sees it and the future as he envisions it.