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From the beginning of the course, autobiographical poems prompted the most engagement and interest with the girls. From Nikki Giovanni's "Ego Tripping" to Maya Angelou's "Still I Rise, " these poems presented a strong sense of self that critiqued, took on, and ultimately prevailed over the societal voices that would limit and demean. In choosing the poems and in developing ways to engage the girls in reading them and in writing their own poetry,mbt shoes on sales, I worked from an understanding of autobiography as reflecting the socially situated and mediated nature of identities and experience. In this way, I followed Wendy Hesford's suggestion that teacher researchers consider how students construct the self strategically and rhetorically through what she calls "autobiographical acts": "Autobiographical acts (whether speech acts, written texts, visual forms, or symbolic gestures that reference the autobiographical subject or body) do not reflect unmediated subjectivities; rather, they are acts of self representation that are ideologically encoded with historical memories and principles of identity and truth".
June Jordan's poem,walking shoes mbt, "A Short Note to My Very Critical and Well Beloved Friends and Comrades,men mbt shoes, " was the first poem to spark these autobiographical acts reflective of and resistant to multiple social discourses. In this poem, Jordan provides a rich and slightly humorous meditation on the complexities and possibilities of self representation. She starts the poem by writing "First they said... " and then repeatedly uses the line "Then they said... " to suggest the contradictory ways in which multiple messages are relayed through discourses laden with judgments and expectations related to race, gender, ######uality, and other social identities. The poem's final lines also provide a clever indictment of the motivations and shortcomings of these individual and societal interlocutors:
Make up your mind! They said. Are you militant or sweet Are you vegetarian or meat Are you straight or are you gay?
And I said, Hey,mbt shoes discounted! It's not about my mind. (13"�"16)This poem provided a compelling entryway for discussion as well as for writing that gave the girls opportunities to name hegemonic discourses. In addition, the last line especially provided a language to speak back to these interlocutors and the assumptions they made.
Jordan's poem and the young women's response to it served as a kind of watershed event for me in my early attempts to create a writing community where the students had numerous and hopefully socially meaningful opportunities for self expression. Near the end of our discussion about the poem, Sherry began composing her own poem about herself aloud using the lines from Jordan. While I had not planned to have the students write in response to the poem that day, I asked the other young women if they would like to try composing their own poems using Jordan's lines like Sherry had. What emerged that day was not only wonderful poetry but also a pedagogical way of engaging with writing that became a staple of our future writing engagements. What also emerged was a way of naming and talking to each other about issues of self representation and, most importantly, the beginning of the development of an in school space where the students claimed identities as living authors and where our project could be self definition.
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