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Exploring Attitudes Toward America Through Poetry

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This academic lesson aims to help students analyze how personal experiences shape their attitudes toward America. By examining poetic elements and themes in various poems, students will collaborate in annotating and discussing texts that reflect diverse perspectives. They will also learn to identify shifts in poetry, emphasizing the author's resolution to issues presented in the poems. The lesson culminates in a writing prompt where students express their views on America, supported by textual evidence, exploring the concept of the "American Dream" and its accessibility.

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Exploring Attitudes Toward America Through Poetry

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  1. Warm-up Academic Language North: East: West: Discourse Roles North: East: West: TASK: How do experiences influence attitudes? How has your experience in America influenced your attitude about America?

  2. Content Language Objective • Students will identify and explain the effect of poetic elements by speaking and writing about poems that reveal attitudes about America, using • Poems • Collaborative analysis and annotation • CSE paragraph expectations

  3. Shifts in Poetry • Most poems begin with the author exploring/explaining a problem they are having and trying to solve • Or • An issue they are having and trying to resolve

  4. Shifts Con’t • The shift signifies the author’s solution to the problem • Or • Their coming to terms with the issue (acceptance) • The shift usually also reveals the THEME of the poem

  5. THEME • To find theme you first must find the subject/topic • Subjects are usually non-tangible • Exs: love, hate, jealousy, greed, war

  6. Theme • After finding the subject, you need to infer and place what you believe the author’s opinion or judgment is about the subject • Subject/Topic + Opinion/Judgment = THEME • Jealousy can destroy even the strongest relationships • Love can be can dangerous when it appears in the form of lust • Avoid clichés: Only fools rush in, Love is blind

  7. America Poems • Read and Annotate for the Poetry Big Four: • Theme, Tone/Mood, Figurative Language, Shift • Write a thematic statement for each poem

  8. Writing Prompt • After reading each poem, argue in writing which poem and author most closely resembles your opinion of America. Use textual evidence to support you claim.

  9. Essential Questions • What is the “American Dream”? • Is the “American Dream” accessible to everyone in America?

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