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Daily Archives: October 1st, 2009

K’naan

Thursday, October 1, 2009

K’naan is from Mogadishu, Somalia. His family moved to New York in 1991 to escape the Somali civil war, and then later, to Toronto, Ontario. His aunt, Magool, was one of Somalia’s most famous singers. His grandfather, Haji Mohamed, was a poet. K’naan means “traveller” in the Somali language. I heard his song, Wavin’ Flag, [...]

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An Ecology of Adolescent Literacy

Thursday, October 1, 2009

This post is tangential to a series of posts that Tom Hoffman has done recently, in which he eviscerates the new Common Core(porate) English Language Arts Standards. I don’t see category links on his blog, so maybe the best place to look for them all at this point is in the monthly archive. He summarized [...]

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