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    Rachel Merson

    EDU 280 Multicultural Education


    07/30/2021
    Grade: 6

    Subject: English Language Arts

    Multicultural goal: “Teach from multicultural perspectives to promote positive gender, racial,

    cultural, class, and individual identities as well as promote the recognition and acceptance of

    membership in many different groups.” (Manning et.al., 2017, p. 17)

    1. Lesson Objectives: Subject & multicultural objectives.

    ● Subject: Students will be able to analyze poems to understand their meanings.

    ● Subject: Students will be able to construct a couplet reflecting their own cultural

    identities.

    ● Multicultural: Students will be able to recognize the hardships of various ethnic

    groups by analyzing poetry.

    ● Multicultural: Students will be able to respect individual cultural identities.

    ● Multicultural: Students will be able to evaluate and recognize what makes up their

    cultural identities.

    2. Materials: Computer, projector, 2 printouts of each poem linked under “guided

    practice”, colored pencils, normal pencils, loose-leaf paper, erasers, half sheet papers for

    exit slip.

    3. Instruction/ Learning Process:

    ● Do first: The students will be required to watch an introduction to poetry right at

    the beginning of the lesson. This will be their “do first.” The students will have

    already learned most of the topics discussed in this video, but it is a good way to

    review what they know and introduce anything that they might have missed. This

    video talks about the elements of poetry, and is just under five minutes in length.
    ● Mini-lesson: As a direct instruction mini-lesson, the instructor will model how to

    analyze the meaning of a poem and the author’s point of view by identifying

    common elements such as rhythm, repetition, figurative language, irony, lines,

    stanzas, and syllables. This will be done with the poem “I Dream a World” by

    Langston Hughes. Some things that should be pointed out are the repetition of the

    phrase I dream a world, the simile “joy, like a pearl,” word choice such as scorn

    and wretchedness, punctuation, and rhyme. All of these elements will be analyzed

    and annotated so that the class can see, and the teacher should guide the students

    to help them figure out the meaning of the poem. This is done by asking them

    specific questions and letting them volunteer to share their thoughts.

    ● Guided practice: Next, the students will practice the same activity that was just

    modeled for them, but they will do this in groups of 3-4. Each poem, including the

    one used in the example, is written by a minority author and describes their point

    of view of dealing with adversity/ fighting for equality. These poems include:

    “Carrying Our Words” by Ofelia Zepeda, “The Cities Inside Us” by Alberto Rios,

    “Natural Criminal” by Fransisco X. Alarcon, and “Things We Carry on the Sea”

    by Wang Ping. The students need to annotate one poem as a group and analyze

    the author’s point of view. It is important for the students to recognize what

    cultural group the author identifies with and how that plays into their poem as

    well. On the back of their paper, the students need to write 1-2 sentences about

    the meaning of the poem/ what they take away from the poem. If the students

    need any help or have any questions, the teacher can help at this time.
    ● Independent practice: As an independent practice activity, the students will use

    the elements of poetry they have been reviewing and their understanding of

    cultural identity to write their own couplet poems. These poems should include at

    least 3 required elements that help contribute to the meaning of their poems. Some

    elements they can use are figurative language, rhyme, rhythm, repetition, irony,

    punctuation, and specific word choice.

    ● Exit slip: Lastly, they will complete an exit ticket which will require them to write

    2-3 sentences about what they learned about the author of the poem they

    analyzed, and if they feel they have a better understanding of cultural

    perspectives.

    4. All resources:

    Alarcon, F. (2002). Natural Criminal by Francisco x. ALARCÓN - Poems | Academy of

    American Poets. Poets.org. https://poets.org/poem/natural-criminal.

    Hughes, L. (1941). I Dream a World by Langston Hughes. by Langston Hughes - Famous

    poems, famous poets. - All Poetry. https://allpoetry.com/I-Dream-A-World.

    Ping, W. (2018). Things We Carry on the Sea by Wang Ping - Poems | Academy of American

    poets. Poets.org. https://poets.org/poem/things-we-carry-sea.

    Rios, A. (1998). The Cities Inside us by Alberto Ríos - Poems | Academy of American poets.

    Poets.org. https://poets.org/poem/cities-inside-us.

    Tcmpublishing. (2020, March 19). Kids Learn Ingredients of a Poem with Kwame Alexander

    and TCM. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDTmswL2cf0.


    Zepeda, O. (n.d.). Carrying our Words BY Ofelia Zepeda - Poems | Academy of American poets.

    Poets.org. https://poets.org/poem/carrying-our-words.

    5. Reflection:

    I believe this lesson and set of activities will be engaging for the students. I also think that

    offering work from a diverse variety of authors will help the students feel more

    represented so they might connect with the lesson better. This lesson teaches students

    how to analyze poems to find meaning, how to identify various elements in writing, and

    how a combination of those can create a certain meaning and express a point of view.

    This lesson also requires students to reflect on their own identities and write their own

    poetry. Above all, this helps students learn about the cultural identities and hardships of

    others which promotes the acceptance and celebration of diversity. The main strength of

    this lesson plan is the diverse representation incorporated. The main weakness is that it

    goes over a lot of information in a short amount of time, so the students might not be able

    to develop their understanding of each poet in such a limited time.

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