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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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