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For this reason, our YouTh ink. curriculum is infused with explorations of identity that lead <br /> participants in examining their life experiences, cultural backgrounds, and special areas of <br /> knowledge, interest, and expertise that help define who they are. These explorations happen <br /> through writing exercises and discussion, and the results are powerful pieces of poetry, <br /> storytelling, and performance that give students a means to express how they feel, who they are, <br /> and who they wish to be. <br /> The learner-centered approach that our curriculum utilizes is aligned with what the National <br /> Urban Alliance calls"The Pedagogy of Confidence" as it"stresses situating learning in the lives <br /> of the students, eliciting and addressing their frames of reference, honoring their interests,their <br /> insights/voices, and their cultural and linguistic backgrounds."As the NUA explains,this type of <br /> approach"recognizes that youth culture offers enriching and legitimate content and contexts for <br /> learning in our classrooms" (Sanchez, 52). <br /> Program Curriculum <br /> Our YouTh ink. Curriculum includes workshops that explore the following <br /> themes and concepts: <br /> Intro to Spoken Word and Performance Poetry <br /> • History of Oral Poetry: From the Greeks to Griots to Gripping the Mic <br /> • Starting with the Self: The importance of telling YOUR story <br /> • Exploring our origins (family,community, childhood, interests) <br /> • Identifying who people think we are, expressing who we really are <br /> Storytelling <br /> • History of storytelling as oral history and cultural transmission <br /> • Elements and techniques of storytelling <br /> • Introduce concept of using images to tell a story <br /> • Exploring life experiences and memories <br /> • Point of View- 1st, 2nd, 3rd person narratives <br /> • Dramatic irony <br /> • Foreshadowing <br /> • the "turn" <br /> Imagery, Figurative Language, and Literary Devices <br /> • "Showing"rather than "Telling" <br /> • Metaphor, Simile, extended metaphor <br /> • Personification <br /> • Double Entendre <br /> • Connotation, Denotation <br /> • Hyperbole <br /> • Irony, paradox, and the unexpected <br /> • Alliteration <br />