Essential Question: What can we learn from other people’s stories of resilience that we might be able to use in our own lives?
Objective: Using the definitions of the common literary devices you will use 3 or more elements to compose your original Spoken Word poem or rap about resilience.
Task: You are going to compose a Spoken Word poem/rap about resilience based on your research and interview.
- Complete the Getting started with Spoken Word packet
- Watch several Spoken Word performances to get the feel of how a poem is performed
- Compose your poem
Your poem needs to have the following elements:
- Include 3 or more literary devices
- Be between 30 seconds and 2 minutes long
- have some sort of performance (tone, gestures, facial expressions, etc) element
- Include reference to at least 2 resilience character traits for the point of view
- Include reference to historical figure, community member, and yourself