Live Above The Hype: A Hip Hop Life Skills Workbook Manual (Teacher/Parent Edition)

View Book Trailer Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsmnYM26ylI Analyzing Hip Hop culture to promote character development & pro-social values, we merge social-emotional skills with cognitive learning. Live Above The Hype includes lessons that initiate in depth self reflection in youth, while allowing youth workers and parents to have meaningful and enlightening dialogue with at-risk and beyond-risk male youth. The Live Above The Hype Hip Hop Life Skills Teacher/Parent Edition Includes: •20 insightful lessons that promote Violence Prevention, Responsible Decision Making, Community Responsibility & Self Awareness from a Hip Hop perspective •Full session (60 – 90 min) lesson plans aligned with Common Core Standards •Suggested answers & responses to given questions •Insightful information on subject matter to further equip instructor and help instructor relate to students •Bonus assignments/activities to assign students •Foreword written by Dr. Michael Eric Dyson •Illustrations by Ronald “Riskie” Brent (2Pac/Makaveli) The curriculum goes beyond analyzing song lyrics of today’s most popular rappers and instead analyzes the value systems that draw many of our young people to these rappers.