Protest Poetry
Lesson 1: What Makes a Poem a Poem? Is a song a poem? Analyzing popular music as poetry, co-construction of anchor chart of poetic devices.
Assessment For Learning: Exit Ticket
What poetic devices did the poet use
effectively? Explain your thinking.
Lesson 3: Interact with
World Changers. Students
will discuss world changers,
sort and classify, then add to
a list, all leading to the idea
that they are world changers.
What is your passion?
Focus on Point of View:
Who would you add to this
list?
Lesson 5: Students will analyze song
lyrics of their own choice using anchor
chart.
Assessment of and as Learning: Students
will write a paragraph explaining the
poetic devices within the song lyric
of their choice, and comment on
the author's effectiveness and point
of view. Co-construction of success criteria:
What makes a good answer?
Lesson 2: Read and Analyze classic
poetry using anchor chart and own
ideas.
Assessment for and as Learning: Students will write
a poem that mirrors the form and poetic devices
within The Red Wheelbarrow. Students will co-create success
criteria for these short poems.
Lesson 4: Reading a Video. Students
will look at a lyric video and use
our anchor chart to analyze
for poetic devices.
Focus on
Student Voice:
Students will
choose their own song lyrics to analyze.
Lesson 6: Students will analyze student samples of Protest/Critical Stance Poetry to Co-create success criteria for their own writing.
Lesson 7: Students will Write their own
Protest Poetry using the success criteria
generated in Lesson 6.
Assessment As and Of Learning:
Students will self and peer assess
using criteria. Teacher will assess
culminating task (poem).