Goals and Objectives
- Students will analyze poetry to identify the central theme of the poem.
- Students will use literary elements to write a poem expressing their reactions to the civil rights movement.
- Students will effectively use research strategies and tools when preparing information on the Civil Rights Movement for the fishbowl discussion.
- Students will display comprehension of specific events in the civil rights movement by participating in a fishbowl discussion.
- Students will create an informational source about their topic, including major dates, events, and people to hand out to peers at the fishbowl discussion.
Essential Questions
- How does literature affect the times?
- How can poetry be used to convey feelings and ideas related to the Civil Rights movement of African Americans.
- How did the major events and important people within the Civil Rights movement for African Americans affect Democratic change?
- How do literary elements affect/contribute to themes in poetry?
- 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?
- How is poetry used/written to express political attitudes and beliefs?
- Why would an individual choose nonviolent means of protest - like civil disobedience, sit-ins, and poetry - over violent means of protest - such as war - as their method of activism? What the pros and cons of nonviolent activism over violent?
- What is the "good fight"? How is the "good fight" fought? What does the "good fight" fight for?