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2012-13 Arts in Education Application — Page Three <br /> Integrating Cultural Arts into the Curriculum <br /> As North Carolina moves to the Common Core next year, the standards for Language Arts emphasize <br /> experiential learning of the range of literary genres, including poetry, and linking this to real world <br /> applications. The poetry residency allows the student to put this in practice through the creation of art, <br /> the spoken word and interacting with their peers in critique and analysis. <br /> In coordination with the teachers, Mr. Shabazz gives students a word bank and a central image. Over the <br /> course of the 1-week workshop, they are tasked with working those words around the central image and <br /> creating spoken art that sees and experiences the world in new ways. At the end of the workshop, <br /> students will have an anthology of original poems that they then share at the school's annual Poet's <br /> Cafe or open mic that takes place at a local bookstore in November and is open to the public. <br />