2024 Spring SDP Workshops on Civic Argument Writing with Primary Sources

The Philadelphia Writing Project invites teachers from the School District of Philadelphia to engage in workshops on using and creating text sets across content areas to support students in developing civic arguments. This work is supported by a grant from the Library of Congress.

The sessions feature argument writing resources from the National Writing Project’s College, Career, and Community Writers Program (C3WP; Arshan & Park, 2021; Friedrich et al., 2018). The sessions and text sets also weave together primary sources and strategies from the Library of Congress’s Teaching with Primary Sources program, and lesson and unit planning approaches described in Dr. Gholdy Muhammad’s Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacies Framework laid out in Cultivating Genius (2020) and Unearthing Joy (2023).

Participants will use text sets that include both primary and secondary sources and that are published online at tps.philwp.org. Additional text sets will be shared with teachers, and teachers will be invited to create their own.

School District of Philadelphia teachers can register for remaining sessions in Cornerstone!