Getting started with Spoken Word

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.

  1. Complete the Getting started with Spoken Word packet
  2. Watch several Spoken Word performances to get the feel of how a poem is performed
  3. Compose your poem

literary

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

Reflection on Resilience

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: Reflect on how you are connected to your historical figure and community member and what you have learned from the research and interview process and timeline creation.

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Compose a reflection blog post using your Connecting Yourself information . How did your research of the historical figure  and interview the resilient community member connect with you. What sites were the most helpful in finding information about your historical figure. How did you feel about and what did you learn from the interview process. You also need to include your impression of the process of researching, interview, and using your research to create the timeline using tiki-toki. Your post should include the essential elements of a great post and include:

  • Three paragraph (minimum) reflection on the research, interview, and timeline.
  • Catchy title
  • A critical question or thought about your findings
  • Links to the 2 most useful sites you found during our research
  • Image of the person you research
  • MLA citation of websites.
  • Spell and grammar check your document

Rubric:

Criteria

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Analysis of topic & question Initial blog post on topic and/or question is answered accurately and with much detail Initial blog post on topic lacks some accuracy or detail Initial blog post is limited in accuracy and/or detail Initial blog post lacks any accuracy and/or detail (did not address prompt) Initial blog post was not started or only a cursory attempt was made
Outside research cited Three or more outside sources including personal experience are used in support of blog post and add valuable evidence and are cited Two or more outside resources are used but do not support the post. Sources are cited. Two or more sources are provided but not cited One or two sources are provided but not cited No sources are provided
Critical thinking question or thought A critical thinking question or thought relevant to the topic and/or question is provided A critical thinking question or thought, not relevant to the topic and/or question is provided A question or thought is provided A question or thought is not provided No evidence of an attempt at critical thought
Mechanics Posting is mechanically and grammatically correct Posting contains 1-3 spelling, grammatical, or punctuation errors Posting contains 4-6 spelling, grammatical, or punctuation errors Posting contains more than 6 spelling, grammatical, or punctuation errors Posting contains more than 6 errors that impede the readability
Timeliness Post is submitted on time Post is submitted by the next class period Post is submitted 1-2 days late Post is submitted 3-5 days late Post is not submitted for review at end of a week

Rubric adapted from:  http://www.goramblers.org/document.doc?id=1307

Connecting Yourself

Essential Question: What can we learn from other people’s stories of resilience that we might be able to use in our own lives?

Connect yourself to your community member using your interview notes and to your historic figure using the research. Explain your reasoning on what traits you have in common:

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Use your packet or create a Google document to connect yourself to the historic figure you research and the community member you interviewed to do the following:

  • In a paragraph, describe a time in your life when you had to be resilient. Include the resiliency traits you demonstrated and explain why you selected the trait(s).
  • How do you connect with your resilient community member? What are the traits you share and explain why.
  • How do you connect with your chosen resilient historical figure? Include the traits you have in common and explain why.

Historical Facts

Research your historical figure finding facts that support resilient characteristics. You will need to have at least 3 websites, only one can be Wikipedia. In your packet write down the URL for the sites you used. Write down as many facts as you can find, preferably that will connect with the resiliency traits of your community member. Be sure to include the URL for each fact.

Once you have these facts, you are going to start research what was going on in history surrounding this person’s life. Events such as wars, the Great Depression, or Civil Rights movement are examples of events to look for. You will use these events to create a timeline in the next assignment.

Community Member Report

Your task is to write a one to two page paper using Google Docs about your chosen resilient community member. It is important that in the paper you include WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY, and HOW of your resilient person’s story. Include a reflection of what you learned from this person about resilience and how it will affect your decisions.

Requirements:

Formatting:

Font: Arial, Times New Romans, or Tahoma

Size: 12 pt

Line spacing: 1.5

Color: Black

Title: FL, Hr Community Member Report

Share the document with bms.roars@gmail.com

 

 

 

Historical Figure Research – Due 9/5

You are going to research the  historical figure you selected from the list on page 22 of your Resilience Cafe packet. From your research you will create a one-page reference sheet about this historical figure, include a picture of the person(s), and the answers to the questions below. Please see page 23 for an example.

  • WHO is the resilient historical figure you chose?
  • WHAT did he/she do or overcome that makes him/her resilient?
  • WHERE and WHEN did he/she show this resilience?
  • List the RESILIENT ATTRIBUTES (from the list of 17) that apply to this person.
  • WHY did you choose this particular person to honor along with your resilient community member?

Create a new post in your blog and name it Historical Figure Research. Copy and paste your information from Word into the new post and submit for review.