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39 Whitman and hughes Lesson Plans
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- Grade Range
- 8th - 12th
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Students listen and explore how African-American culture relates to learning Spanish as a foreign language. Poetry, music, and history are utilized while learning about Langston Hughes and Nicolas Guillen. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students discover how blues music has inspired many writers and artists such as the poet, Langston Hughes. They write an essay comparing a blues song and a poem, and exploring the literary elements in both. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine Whitman's artistic practice. They compose poetry modeled on the poet's characteristic method of using the notebooks as a source of the personal experience and universal themes explored in his poems. Full Review »
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- 5th - 6th
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Students identify similarities between Hughes' poetry and music (jazz and the blues). Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students read various poetic works of Walt Whitman and Langston Hughs. They discuss the effect of early photography as it relates to Whitman's poetry. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students study Langston Hughes's poetry, short stories, and his first autobiography. They read and appreciate the candid, honest and powerful creative masterpieces of this black genius and discuss the numerous universal themes and their subtle, underlying meanings as they highlight the tensions, the inequities, and the hope for greater opportunity. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students examine various stories and poems and identify characteristics that make each individual unique. After analyzing the readings, they create their own personality poems to accompany self-portrait drawings. The poems and drawings are mounted on construction paper and displayed in the classroom. Full Review »
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- 12th
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Students express themselves through poetry. They discover the connection between their music and the music of poetry and hear their work and how the sound of a poem or an analytical paper improves their written work. They develop public speaking skills. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students design an artistic and literary collage of contemporary urban life that seeks to interpret, analyze, and evaluate its mettle. They integrate their impressions of urban life with established views, thereby enriching their understanding of their own present and future. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students create new words to convey their thoughts. They find, list and discuss the poetic devices used by the poet in creating his or her war poem and create their own war poems. They use sensory perception words and memory in creating a poem. Full Review »
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