Day 4

Night Sky with Exit Wounds Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities

  1. 1

    Poetic Performance

    Kind of Activity:

    Performance

    Objective:

    Students will be able to consider the relationship between page and performance

    Common Core Standards:

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.5, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.4, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.6

    Structure:

    Watch this video of Vuong performing "Ode to Masturbation" at the 2016 Split This Rock Poetry Festival.

    Discuss the video with the students with a particular focus on performance. How does hearing the poem in Vuong's voice change the way they perceive the poem? What does hearing a poem read aloud do to the way that you understand it?

    Ask students, alone or in small groups, to select a poem from the book. (Since...

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