Course: How to Teach Poetry
Lecture 8: Social Impact and Literacy (8 of 15)
TEACHER GOALS
- Motivate student literacy and social engagement
- Take student poetry skills beyond the classroom to make a social impact while improving literacy
- Encourage students to gravitate away from writing about themselves and instead about their community and real-world situations
STUDENT GOALS
- Become a powerful person in society through the mastery of language
- Empowerment through literacy
- Change the world with words
TEACHER DO NOW
- Arrange desks/chairs in the classroom in a circle to crate a warm, supportive, interactive space for students and teachers to communicate
STUDENT DO NOW
- Review the poem from Lesson Plan 3 written about a topic of choice from PowerPoetry's Action Guides
MINI-LESSON/ACTIVITY
- As a class, for the first 10 minutes students will make a list of the tools and poetry techniques they have learned thus far
- For the next 15 minutes students will review PowerPoetry's 7 Tips for Editing Poetry and PowerPoetry's 5 Tips for Using Diction
- The remainder of class will be devoted to students revise and edit upon their poem from Lesson Plan 3 using what they have learned since that lesson
SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL
HOMEWORK
- Students will send their new and improved social action-related poem somewhere it may be used to incite social change (i.e. organization, newspaper, website related to the topic, etc.) and share with the class where it has been sent
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How to Teach Poetry Teacher Lesson Plan 8