Format
1. The workshop begins with an exploration of the students' relationship to social media and consumerism
2. There will be a free-write exercise
3. The workshop leader will then introduce the poet and her work to the students.
4. Students will watch a video of Lady Logics' reciting her poem "Ritually rUINED"
5. The students will then engage in a instructor led discussion of the poem, its subject matter and themes.,
6. Students will watch the video a second time
7. Participants will then create their own poem of resistance.
8. Students will share their poems with their class.
9. The instructor will leave the students with some questions for them to reflect on after the workshop.
10. Time will be left for any questions the students might have.
Objectives
The student participants will:
- Examine the definitions of, hip-hop, poetry, and spoken word
- Reflect on their relationship with social media and consumer society
- Engage in a free-write exercise in preparation for the main activity
- Analyze a poem to discover its subject and themes
- Write their own poem based on their personal experience
- Reflect on their own poem and ponder some questions about their relationship to sociaty
Standards Alignment
National Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.9-10.L.2c -- Spell correctly.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.9-10.RI.1 -- Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.9-10.RI.6 -- Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.9-10.SL.1 -- Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.9-10.W.2d -- Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to manage the complexity of the topic.