Aaron Jafferis

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Arts Discipline: Literary Arts & Storytelling
Curriculum Connection: Math

Teaching Artist Legacy Statement

I'm a fire-stoking nerd / who uses theatre arts / and spoken word / to open minds and broken hearts.

I find rhymes / precise as a laser knife / between a student's own life / and school-fostered book smarts.

My students use hip-hop / to unearth / a historical system, / then flip-flop it to give birth / to brand-new wisdom.

I grow geniuses of collaboration and emotion / who'll turn a physics problem, a fraction, / a lesson on long division or the ocean, / into a metaphor for something else, / or a window into themselves.

(Soy poeta y rapero. Abro las mentes de mis estudiantes al mundo entero.)

Component Type Arts Workshop
Grades 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
First Language English
Other Languages Spanish
Professional Links

www.aaronjafferis.com

Testimonials

"Your presence with our students is winsome, authentic, and inviting - and your talent is tremendous!"
- Scott, Manager of Education at Seattle Children's Hospital, WA

Description

We use math to study, map out, and emulate complex rhyme schemes and poetic forms, and use math equations as the basis for poems exploring our selves and relationships.