ENG2D Unit 6: Language That Hits

Why does some language stay with us for years? Students make blackout poems, analyse “In Flanders Fields,” Dickinson, Frost and Langston Hughes, learn about E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), break down the lyrics of songs they love and perform original spoken word.

Assessment of learning: a comparative poetry analysis and a spoken word performance, with rubrics.

Lessons

1. Blackout Poetry
2. Sound and Image
3. Two Roads
4. Voices
5. Lyric Breakdown
6. Compare Two Poems
7. Spoken Word Workshop (2 classes)
8. The Slam

What you get

• A teacher lesson plan for every lesson: curriculum expectations, learning goals and success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation, look-fors and answer guides
• Detailed slideshows (15 to 19 slides per lesson) with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend, plus worked examples, model answers and answer-key slides
• Student handouts, organizers and exit tickets
• Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs
• A unit overview, both summative tasks with rubrics and the full text of four public-domain poems

Built for the Ontario curriculum (English, Grades 9 and 10, 2007, revised), and easy to adapt for any Grade 10 English class.

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