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

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 sharework

Student Objectives:
Write expressively and develope unique voice
Raise awareness by setting social change in motion
Write about problems inschool/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





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