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Making Your Mark: Free Verse Poetry Lesson PlanMaking Your Mark: Free Verse Poetry Lesson Plan
Publisher
Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
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Grade
6th - 8th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
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For Teacher Use
Duration
2 hrs
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Direct Instruction
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Projection
Year
2004
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Fine Print: Educational Use
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Making Your Mark: Free Verse Poetry

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Using the insight they have gained into the experiences of detainees at the Angel Island Immigration Station, young poets create their own free verse poems that they feel captures what it may have felt like to be an immigrant interned on the island.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

poetry, free verse, angel island, immigration, chinese immigration, discrimination, primary source analysis, primary source images, primary sources, critical thinking, racism, chinese history, american history, california history, the writing process, the chinese exclusion act of 1882

Instructional Ideas

  • Images of poems carved into the walls of Angel Island Immigration Station can be found here
  • Post student poems next to images of poems carved into the walls of the barracks on Angel Island

Classroom Considerations

  • 13th of 14 lessons in the unit study of Angel Island Immigration Station
  • Instructors must develop their own grade-level appropriate explanation of free verse poetry

Pros

  • The detailed plan offers several options for the poems including carving them into foam plates
  • Includes suggested adaptations and extensions

Cons

  • None

Common Core

W.6.3.d W.6.4 W.6.5 W.7.3.d W.7.4 W.7.5 RL.8.4 W.8.3.d W.8.5

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