Content Objectives
Writers make deliberate choices in poems to create a meaning or give a message to an audience. Literary analysis is about dissecting a writer’s choices and explaining how these choices contribute to the meaning of the text. Poems can perpetuate or challenge a dominant narrative about race, class or gender. In Socratic Seminar students will discuss how poetry can mimic real life and the ways that personal experiences affect an author’s writing, motivating them to challenge or perpetuate a dominant narrative about race, class or gender. At the end of this process, through participation in a poetry slam in front of a viewing audience, students will demonstrate their ability to compose and present an original creative composition that is clear, accurate and appropriate to the occasion.
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