2024 Spring SDP Workshops on Civic Argument Writing with Primary Sources

In the spring of 2024, the Philadelphia Writing Project invited teachers from the School District of Philadelphia to engage in a series of five workshops on using and creating text sets across content areas to support students in developing civic arguments.

The sessions featured:

1. argument writing resources from the National Writing Project’s College, Career, and Community Writers Program (C3WP; Arshan & Park, 2021; Friedrich et al., 2018); 

2. primary sources and strategies from the Library of Congress’s Teaching with Primary Sources program; and 

3. lesson and unit planning approaches from Dr. Gholdy Muhammad’s Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacies Framework, laid out in Cultivating Genius (2020) and Unearthing Joy (2023).

Example teacher-created curriculum collections are available at tps.philwp.org. This work was supported by a Teaching with Primary Sources grant from the Library of Congress.

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