Hip Hopology 101: A Student's Guide to Exploring the History, Art, Influence & Politics of Urban Culture, is a classroom course textbook examining the historic origin, evolution and influence of Hip Hop culture. This textbook will be of use and value to students in both high school and college who will find this book to be both, a rudimentary and explanative introduction to Hip Hop as an expanding and globally significant culture as opposed to it's mere musical ascetic.The scope of this text reviews many of the sociological questions Hip Hop is confronted by, including its vitality within...

Our most vulnerable in society has always been our children. Child health data from the Center For Disease Control has shown that American children are at risk in a number of areas such as childhood obesity, abuse and neglect, infant mortality, gun violence, juvenile delinquency and recently, rates in low educational performance has become a national crisis. Health care specialists indicate that most of these areas can be lowered through using consistent intervention steps in education. This workbook, Lyrical Education: Students Who Use Spoken Lyrics with an Academic Mission, providing for...

AMEN 4 Youth, LLC is proudly presenting a highly innovative and exciting English Language Arts Alternative Literacy Curriculum titled S.L.A.M. (Spoken Lyrics with an Academic Mission). S.L.A.M., also known as Lyrical Education, integrates ELA instruction with a high packed engagement of Lyrical Instruction using a technique called L.I.P.P (Lyrical-writing In Performance Poetry), which builds written and oratorical skills while drawing from Spoken Word writings and performance Poetry. This technique simultaneously teaches students English Language Art skills, building upon a composite set of...

This workbook is the fifth in the SLAM Lyrical Education Curriculum Series. It is designed for grades 6-8 but can be used for grades 5-12. The scope of this workbook covers key General Education subjects, such as Technology, Sociology, Science, Humanity, Friendship, Geography, Agriculture, Research, etc., designed to engage students in reading comprehension exercises using Lyrical Composition. Each Lesson is comprised of Subject Definition, Phonetic Pronunciation Key, and Sentence Samples followed by Reading Comprehension Exercises using Lyrical Composition modalities relating to a core...