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Noticing The World  December 1, 2019  Writer's Notebooks as Tools for Social Critique  Two faces of writing  directed outward toward  - The writing you do for the readers - Thinking about the audience  - Connect what matters to the reader 2. Turned inward to the writer - For thinking rather than communicating  - plan your life and thoughts - helping tool - resource for topics, research and planning - They are unique to each writer  "In their notebook, writers look at the world through various social and political lenses, creating the seeds fro social and political action. Most important, they can rehearse and gradually internalize a habit for looking for trouble, of thinking critically about their social realities. The goal of Education is to enable students to do important thinking without teacher's assistance and sponsorship. Writers notebooks are one of the most useful tools for educating for social justice."  (Bo

Write It Out! "We, the Sister Authors, write for then, now, and later to honor those before us and to inspire those who are yet to come. We write because we will not allow those who aren’t us, speak for us, judge us, or tell our stories. We all bleed blood but society has chosen to look only at our skin color. In order for the world to hear our voices, we must be brave enough to let them be heard, so we write to advocate for change. While we are young, black, and female, we are individuals. Our stories are uniquely beautiful. We cannot hold it in, we write it out!" - 16 Authors This was the preamble of 16 black, adolescent girls between the ages of 11 and 17 who participated in a five-week writing institute. They wrote this preamble as a group and recited it each day. By writing their own preamble in their own words, this group of students established themselves as authors and by reciting it each day, they reminded themselves why they were writing. Four Themes foun