Lesson Plan December 31, 2020

Poetic Justice: Using Journalism and Poetry to Illuminate Injustice

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Unit Overview: Analyzing how poetry can bring attention to underreported stories of injustice, examining the cases of poetry about femicide in Mexico and persecution of the Rohingya people in Myanmar.

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Performance Task: Writing poems in response to justice issues, modeled on a poem about the persecution of Rohingya people in Myanmar.

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