Poetry and Social Injustice

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2.  https://play.kahoot.it/#/lobby?quizId=ca372d51-a97e-490f-bcfc-20bf9be8f4af
 Game Pin: 760902

3. ‘Structure and perspective
creates and defines styles of
texts’.

4. Group-work
Each person in the group is given one word to
explain :
Structure/Perspective/Create/Define/Style/
Texts
My thoughts/ideas
My groups thoughts/ideas
Combined ideas
As a group rewrite the SOI in your own words

5. By the end of today’s lesson IWBAT:
All: Define social injustice.
Most :Identify examples of social injustice.
Some: Create an in-depth personal response to a
video clip on social injustice.

7. Fairness and Development

8. Factual— What tools do writers use to
communicate their experiences?
Conceptual— How are readers influenced by
metaphorical language? How do we look for ideas in
common between works from different
perspectives?
Debatable— What role does creative expression
have in a turbulent social environment? Can
literature encourage fairness? Is it possible to
truly understand another person’s struggle?

9. Task 1: Compare and contrast a poem related to social
injustice with one non-fiction text (newspaper article/
blog/speech/ diary entry/ song /autobiography /biography).
Present with visuals.
Criteria: A (Analyzing) and D (Using Language)
Task 2: Create a spoken poem and record a performance
Criteria: B (Organizing) and C (Producing Text)

10. What does social injustice mean?
List examples of social injustice.
If you were selecting 3 ATL skills that you will use
during this unit which ones would you choose and
why?

12. Social injustice is promoting a unjust society. It exists when people are
denied their human rights. They are discriminated against on the basis of
their gender, sexuality, religion, political affiliations, age, race, belief,
disability, location, social class, socioeconomic circumstances, or other
characteristic of background or group membership“.
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16.  https://youtu.be/L4lwU2jOVPs

17.  How did the video-clip make you feel? Why?
 Think about the chorus of the song:
What kind of world do you want?
Think Anything
Let's start at the start
Build a masterpiece
Be careful what you wish for
History starts now...
Extension Question: If you were able to respond to the above words
about social injustice and take action, what would you do and how would
you do it?

18. All: Define social injustice.
Most :Identify examples of social injustice.
Some: Create an in-depth personal response to a
video clip on social injustice.

19.  Look back and tell me:
+ Something I did well was...
- If I did this again I would...