This module combines content and direction from Café Cultura and Power Poetry. Expand your definition of poetry through spoken word form and bring yourself into your poems!
Overview of module:
Tuesday: Café Cultura diversity meeting and poetry workshop
Wednesday/Thursday: explore Power Poetry site and write two original poems
Thursday/Friday: get feedback on poems and refine
essential questions
What is poetry?
How can we express thoughts, observations, and ideas creatively but with intention?
goals
Students will understand that poetry is a form of writing where the form and language is used intentionally to enhance ideas.
Students will understand that poetry can take many forms - sometimes with rules, sometimes without - to express ideas with focus and purpose.
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Writing
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach
Language
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meaning
activities
Expose [Tuesday/Wednesday]
Attend poetry workshop led by Café Cultura's Ara Cruz
Create account at www.powerpoetry.org and familiarize yourself with the website
Practice [Wednesday]
Choose 2 action topics (under "Take Action" tab of powerpoetry.org)
read tips for each topic and write down 3-5 takeaways for each topic
read 2-3 example poems for each topic; for each one, note powerful elements and poetic devices
Create [Wednesday/Thursday]
Write your own poem for each action topic (so you're writing two separate poems)
share poems with at least one other person and get feedback (I like, I wonder…)
Finish or refine poem from Café Cultura workshop - and type it up
Reflect [Friday]
Conference one-on-one about three poems
Revise and re-submit as needed; submit to Power Poetry website if you're comfortable
