English 11 · Week 32 · Civic Voice and the Future
Poetry of Witness
Poems that bear witness to injustice and resilience.
- Students will
- Students analyze how poets bear witness to injustice and resilience through diction and form.
- SEL skill
- Describe pain and hope from the poet's point of view
- What it looks like
- Students build empathy for experiences different from their own.
- Content focus
- Poetry of witness
- Format
- Collaborative analysis
Social awareness
Social awareness is taking the view of someone else, with empathy, especially someone whose life differs from yours. More social awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- RL.11-12.4: Reading: Literature, Grades 11 to 12, Standard 4
- CA ELD standards: ELD.PI.11-12.8 Analyzing language choices; ELD.PI.11-12.12 Selecting language resources
- CA ELA/ELD Framework theme: Meaning Making
- Works with: Poetry
Fits these textbook chapters
- StudySync Grade 11, Unit 4: Seeking Romance
- myPerspectives English Language Arts Grade 11, Unit 3: Power, Protest, and Change
- myPerspectives English Language Arts Grade 11, Unit 5: Facing Our Fears
- HMH Collections Grade 11, Collection 4: A New Birth of Freedom
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More social awareness activities for English 11
- Foundations of American Voice Social awarenessFounding documents and who they included and excluded.
- Voices of Resistance Social awarenessFrederick Douglass and other voices of resistance.
- Gatsby and Belonging Social awarenessCharacters reinventing themselves to belong.
- Immigration Narratives Social awarenessImmigrant experiences in American literature.
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