Developed by L Torres, Queens College
This teaching material was developed as a result of the CUNY 1969 Teach-in & Retreat that took place in Summer 2023. The assignment asks students to learn about and critically reflect on The 5 Demands, the student-led takeover of CUNY in 1969 by taking personal inventory of movements that may have shaped their life, researching and analyzing specific goals of the 1969 movement and creating solid arguments/talking points for a revolutionary, in-class conversation in favor of equitable literacy sponsorship and educational spaces.
The Teaching Material
Assignment type:
Lesson plan, Discussion, Reflection
Keywords:
discussion, literacy, creative, group work, identity
Faculty Information
L Torres is a NYC writer, activist and author of The Taste of Broken, an autobiographical poetry book on endometriosis. She is a former LaGuardia Performing Arts Center Grantee, Not Yet Free Artivist, and Dorland Mountain Arts Resident. L is also a former co-editor of Armstrong Literary Magazine and 2022 Louis Armstrong House Writer-in-Residence.
L is a double CUNY alum; she holds a BA in English and MFA in Creative Writing from Queens College. An unwavering artivist, L’s writing zeroes in on gender/racial/(dis)ability/class/age/body size equitability and justice, while dismantling social conventions. L is honored to call herself a CUNY educator.
Licensing Information
The Five Demands and Literacy Sponsorship is licensed under CC BY-NC. This license allows re-users to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator.
The Five Demands and Literacy Sponsorship created by L Torres is an open educational resource (OER), but linked resources have other licensing conditions.
