How to Teach Poetry: Lesson Plan 8 (Social Impact and Literacy)

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

• PowerPoetry's 7 Tips for Editing Poetry Tip Guide
• PowerPoetry's 5 Tips for Using Diction Tip Guide

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