Here is the lesson plan with accompanying materials. Our kids deserve and need to see themselves in our examples of experts. That’s one reason you might notice that my list of my favorite slam poems, I strove for a variety of races. The power of representation is strong, people. I kid you not, every year, after I give this preview when I show the video, there are a couple black students in my room that react in surprise that the poet is black. Before showing it, I give a preview about what the poet’s topic will be, that he uses a lot of poetic devices, blah blah blah. During our fiction unit we use this idea to emphasize theme, and during our argumentative we actually had a “democracy party” this year, where if kid wrote to someone real about something real that could change, they could participate.Īnother note about this lesson is that I like it to be the first slam poem that the kids see. I give a huge talk at the beginning of the year when I’m explaining the course about changing the world with our writing (which I hope to write about soon), and so I try to connect back to it every unit.
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Throughout my units, no matter what unit it is, I try to angle the purpose as that we learn how to write so that we can change the world. We had covered lots of different poetic devices through other poems, but I hadn’t shown them slam poetry as an example, yet. This lesson plan I’ve included here was part of a larger poetry unit.
–Looking for a slam-poetry unit plan? Click here–> And when that happens, you’ve got some serious teacher power on your hands. But, the good news is that more than likely, your kids are going to love it. I get it slam poetry is so awesome, sometimes I am intimidated by teaching it. So, you’re intrigued by slam poetry, and you want to know how to start using it in the classroom.
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