"Music Be the Food Of Love": Found Poetry with Shakespeare and Hip Hop

Students create found poetry using lines from hip hop songs and Shakespeare's plays. They try to rewrite the words to music so that more people can explain Shakespeare's plays. They discuss the results of the activity.

Concepts

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hip hop music, william shakespeare

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Additional Tags

hip hop, shakespeare, english language arts

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Resource Details

Grade

9th - 12th

Subjects

English Language Arts

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Resource Type

Lesson Plans

Audience

For Teacher Use

Instructional Strategy

Project-Based Learning

Usage Permissions

Creative Commons

BY-SA: 4.0