Xala Lesson Plan

“…where the spoken word is a red-hot iron”: Power and the Voice

Kind of Activity:

Artistic Response

Objective:

Students will create artistic representations of scenes in Xala which feature the human voice.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.9, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.5

Structure:

As students and scholars of literature, we often study how authors depict sounds, images, thoughts, energy, and consciousness or in other words, direct experience using the...