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Merging an ELA poetry unit with a historical unit on the 1955-1968 African-American Civil Rights Movement, this website presents and outlines an interdisciplinary plan for the 11th grade curriculum. Providing the daily activities in each classroom, informal lesson plans, unit objectives, essential questions, rationale, and additional resources, the website serves as a teacher and student resource. This cross-curricular unit strives to raise student awareness about racism by modernizing the African-American Civil Rights Movement and to encourage students toward critical literacy by showing them the political power of others' poetic voices and, in turn, the power of their own as a means of activism, expression, and commentary. |
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VOODOO IV: POWER AND DOMINATION
Patricia Smith How many times do we stop during the day
to tally the things we control? We boldly eye those we presume to be weaker, pitying their wince and scrounge, their boxy little residences, the multitudes who lie about loving them. It's strange how badly we need a bottom, a meandering dirt road to trek and curse. An envelope rubbed with sage will give you a whip of words. You will become a monster, and their small selves with be swallowed. |
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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
SOCIAL STUDIES
How did the major events and important people within the African-American Civil Rights Movement affect Democratic change?
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How do themes in modern-day and classical poetry relate to the emotional tensions and attitudes toward political activism during the African-American Civil Rights Movement? |
ENGLISH
How do literary elements affect/contribute to themes in poetry?
How is poetry used/written to express political and social attitudes and beliefs? |
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