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Unit Title:TheTitle:The Power of LanguageLanguage, How Words Change Our World
Level: Grades 6-8
Level: Grades 6-8, K-12 when
Level: Grades 6-8
Teacher Objective:Objectives:
Define and EXPLOREexplore TRANSFORMATIVEtransformative LITERACYliteracy
Provide WITHcritical ADOLESCENTframework THINKERSfor 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:writeObjectives:
Write expressively and develope unique voiceraise
Raise awareness by setting social change in motionwrite
Write about problems in their school/neighborhoodexploreinschool/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?
Define and EXPLOREexplore TRANSFORMATIVEtransformative LITERACYliteracy
Provide WITHcritical ADOLESCENTframework THINKERSfor 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:writeObjectives:
Write expressively and develope unique voiceraise
Raise awareness by setting social change in motionwrite
Write about problems in their school/neighborhoodexploreinschool/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?
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Final Product: Poem & pamphlet
