Poetry in America, in partnership with the National Education Equity Lab, Arizona State University, and ASU Prep Digital, is pleased to the for-credit course Poetry in America: The City from Whitman to Hip Hop to high-school students. Students who successfully complete the course will receive 3 widely transferable undergraduate credits from ASU.
In this course, we consider those American poets whose themes, forms, and voices have given expression to visions of the city since 1850. Beginning with Walt Whitman, the great poet of nineteenth-century New York, we explore the diverse and ever-changing environment of the modern city—from Chicago to London, from San Francisco to Detroit—through the eyes of such poets as Carl Sandburg, Emma Lazarus, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Frank O’Hara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hayden, and Robert Pinsky, as well as contemporary hip hop and spoken word artists.
This course introduces content and techniques intended to help students and educators learn how to read texts of increasing complexity. Readings and activities were chosen and designed with the Common Core English Language Arts (ELA) standards in grades six through 12 in mind. Watch the videos below to learn more!
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ASU is a comprehensive public research university, measured not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural and overall health of the communities it serves.
ASU Prep Digital is a college prep option where online high school and university courses converge in a unique learning opportunity for all students. This accredited, rigorous virtual school program prepares students for college acceptance and encourages them to start earning credit toward college majors and careers in an increasingly interconnected environment. ASU is advancing next-generation education models that transcend the traditional boundaries between “high school” and “college” and eliminate the barriers based on location, modality, background, and income so that all learners can thrive.
The National Education Equity Lab is a nonprofit, working with Harvard University, Arizona State University, the Common Application and other major institutions, that aims to advance economic and social mobility for low income students at scale.
We are delivering a scalable, “College-in-High School” model to historically under-served students in their high school classroom, at no cost to the students. College-credit bearing courses from top universities are co-taught with a classroom teacher and include a research-informed pipeline of built-in supports to maximize student success.
Driven by the goals and values of its flagship project, Poetry in America, Verse Video Education develops video and accompanying curricular materials in the arts and humanities and beyond, creating a body of educational content capable of reaching a very broad community of learners: formal and informal, online and residential, young and old, American and international. By producing its own projects and creating thoughtfully-constructed and thought-provoking multimedia content for other organizations, Verse Video Education aims to enhance educational experiences, both within and outside of the classroom.
