Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Chapter 1 An Introduction to Searching for Our Truths; Chapter 2 Writers Reveal Themselves; Chapter 3 Claiming Spaces to Write; Chapter 4 Rewriting Self and Writing About Others; Chapter 5 Expanding Writing Spaces as Communities of Practice; Chapter 6 Writing Changes Writers: The Impact of Inertia; Chapter 7 Heroes, Dark Secrets, Otter Pops, and Struggles; Chapter 8 Writing Places as Hybrid Spaces; Chapter 9 Products, Presentations, and Power; Chapter 10 Suffering, Struggles, and the Community
Summary
This book chronicles 5th and 6th grade writers in a poor, culturally diverse, rural school in the southwest US coming into their voices, cultivating those voices, and using those voices in a variety of venues, beginning with the classroom community and spreading outward. The big ideas of official and unofficial portraits are presented, followed by data and facets of the theoretical construct of counterportraits in each chapter, as a response to official portraits
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-281) and indexes
