American Voices: Listening to Fiction, Poetry, and Prose

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 08.02.05

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction/Rationale
  2. Objectives
  3. African American Identity
  4. Langston Speaks (excerpt)
  5. Stop the Violence/Teaching Tolerance
  6. Technology Integration/Media clips: According to ABCnews7Chicago.com
  7. Hip Hop Artist Speaks: Hurricane Katrina
  8. Point of View: Using the N-WORD!!!
  9. My Student's Respond
  10. Lessons in Voice
  11. Dr. King
  12. Dreams Deep-Fried
  13. Appendix A: Assessment Rubric "Lift Every Voice"
  14. Appendix B :Goals/Illinois Standards
  15. Bibliography
  16. Notes

Lift Every Voice and Sing An Analysis of Social Change "Hope" through Voices of Hip-Hop

Sharon Monique Ponder

Published September 2008

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Appendix A: Assessment Rubric "Lift Every Voice"

Voice Elements: Themes (identifying tone and mood in voice)

4

  • Addresses all important aspects of the text
  • Demonstrates in-depth understanding of important information
  • Relates information to prior knowledge in a relevant manner
  • Offers interpretations, evaluations, or extensions (generalizations, applications, analogies, drawings)
  • Modifications made for special needs students

3

  • Addresses most important aspects of the text
  • Demonstrates understanding of important information; less important ideas or details may be overlooked or misunderstood
  • Modifications made for special needs students

2

  • Addresses some aspects of the text
  • Understands some important information, gaps are evident
  • Modifications made for special needs students

1

  • Totally irrelevant or totally off topic
  • Modifications made for special needs students

0

  • Blank/No response
  • Modifications made for special needs students

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