Students in Dr. Bernstein’s basic writing course (Spring 2008), produced and shared this mural and associated video, showing their writing as activism and civic engagement. The “text” generated is image-based and the relevance is communicated orally.
Students in Professor Bernstein’s basic writing course read, listened to, wrote about, and respond with artwork and performances to Dr. Martin Luther King’s anti-Vietnam War speech “A Time to Break Silence” (1967). In this speech, King suggests that “we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society.”
The mural the students created shows a collaborative representation of the speech with many illustrations combined to create one collective statement. The students found King’s speech relevant to world events in 2009 and to their own writing.
