Cane Lesson Plan

"Portrait in Georgia" Pastiche

Kind of Activity:

Creative Writing

Objective:

Students will analyze them poem and write a pastiche of it to demonstrate their knowledge of how it works.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3.D; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.2.E

Structure:

Begin this activity by discussing the poem "Portrait in Georgia." Be sure to touch on how the poem conflates two different images (that of a beautiful white woman and a lynched black man). Give students 10-15 minutes to write an imitation of the poem, in which they describe and conflate two other very different images.

Ideas for Differentiated Instruction:

Students could work in pairs to...