Explore a real world use of poetry with your class! Young language arts pupils consider the concept of advocacy and how journalism, photography, and poetry can raise awareness for a cause. They read several poems about individuals affected by the 2010 earthquake in Haiti before watching a slide show of the earthquake victims. As a final project, individuals write poems expressing the story of someone they feel needs an advocate. 

Concepts

poetry, haiti, social activism, social issues, social justice

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Classroom Considerations

• This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Pros

• A great way to bring writing to the social studies classroom
• Aligned to several Common Core standards for informational reading

Cons

• Poems are no longer available at the lesson link

Common Core

RL.9-10.1 RL.9-10.2 RL.9-10.4 RL.9-10.5 RL.11-12.1 RL.11-12.2 RL.11-12.4 RL.11-12.5 L.11-12.3.a L.11-12.5.a