Playing with Poems: Rules, Tools, and Games

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 14.02.02

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Background
  3. Rationale: Why Poetry? Why Spoken Word?
  4. Slam Students: Teaching Slam Poetry
  5. Slam Poetry
  6. Eslamnol
  7. Spanglish Slam: Bilingual Poetry
  8. Appendix
  9. Bibliography
  10. Notes

Growing Up Yo in New Haven: Teaching Spanish through Bilingual Slam Poetry

Jean Carlos Capacetti

Published September 2014

Tools for this Unit:

Bibliography

Carlson, Lori M.. Cool salsa: bilingual poems on growing up Latino in the United States. New York: H. Holt and Co., 1994. Cool Salsa is a compilation of poems that are in English or Spanish and have been translated over to the other language. There are many poems that can be used in any section of the unit, whether it is the English, Spanish, or Bilingual sections.

Eleveld, Mark. The spoken word revolution redux. Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks MediaFusion, 2007. The Spoken Word Revolution is a brief history of how the form of Spoken Word came to be accompanied by several pieces of poetry by various artists in different points in history.

"Kids Feel the Power of Poetry in Performance." Edutopia. http://www.edutopia.org/poetry-slam-global-writes (accessed August 12, 2014).

Jorden's poem Blink can be found online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT_veYTFQmc

Irene La Sen "Yo Soy" can be found online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWe3qhej5oE

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