Lesson Plans

Unit Title:The Power of Language; How Words Change Our World

Lesson Plans:

• Unit Packet Overview (pdf)
  
• Unit TEKS & Daily Work (pdf)
  
• Unit Poem (pdf)
  
• Unit Supplement (pdf)
  

Level: Grades 6-8

Teacher Objectives:

• Define and explore transformative literacy
• Provide critical framework for integrating new and diverse literacies in secondary classrooms
• Promote community, national, global, digital citizenship
• Turn the writing over to students
• Publish/share student writing in an anthology
• Extend colleague collaboration, connect to other schools/teachers around the country
• Allow students to share work

Student Objectives:

• Write expressively and develop unique voice
• Raise awareness by setting social change in motion
• Write about problems in school/neighborhood
• Explore political power of the written word
• Research topics such as racism, poverty, segregation, and human rights violations

Guiding Question:How does poetry function as a vehicle for social change?

Final Product: Poem & pamphlet