Poetics of Diversity

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Poetics of Diversity

• Diversity technology project
• Education 301/ 02
• Melissa Pinson
• Troy Powell
• Andrea sturgeon

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Table of Contents

• Slide 1- Introduction slide
• Slide 2 Table of Contents
• Slide 3 Breakdown of the lesson
• Slide 4/5 General Diversity Support
  (Educator/Staff Directed)
• Slide 6 Poetry Resources Page (Educator
  Directed)

• Slide 7/8 Using Poetry with Gifted Students
  (General Educator Directed)
• Slide 9 Poetry Therapy for Students with
  Disabilities(General Educator Directed)
• Slide 10/11 Poetic Benefits for Students with
  Exceptionalities and Disabilities (General
  Educator Directed

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Table of Contents

• Slides 12-20 Diversity Lesson Age
• Slides 21-28 Diversity Lesson Race
• Slides 29-36 Diversity Lesson Class
• Slides 37-44 Diversity Lesson Language

• Slides 45-51 Diversity Lesson Belief
  Systems/Religion
• Slides 52-58 Diversity Lesson Gender
• Slides 59-65 Diversity Lesson Sexual Orientation

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Breakdown of the Lesson

• Poetics of Diversity
• Grade Intended for grades 9-12, but can be
  tailored. Grade level is dependent on poetry
  selected
• Unit/Lesson Poetry Appreciation
• Authors Pinson, Powell, Sturgeon

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General Diversity Support

• Teaching the children of a new Americathe
  challenge of diversity
• http//wilsontxt.hwwilson.com/pdffull/01226/M42ZZ/
  XFR.pdf
• Rewards of teaching diversity
• http//wilsontxt.hwwilson.Com/pdffull/05893/le5ax
  /VSI.pdf
• Technology and multiculturalism
• http//wilsontxt.hwwilson.com/pdffull/05893/LW7YJ/
  2S5.pdf

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General Diversity Support, Cont

• Havighurst's developmental tasks, young
  adolescents,and diversity
• http//wilsontxt.hwwilson.com/pdffull/03859/2XH48/
  VSI.pdf
• Literature as lessons on the diversity of culture
• http//www.indiana.edu/eric_rec/ieo/digests/d42.h
  tml

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Poetry Resource Pages

• Writes of passage www.writes.org
• Scriveners http//pages.prodigy.com/sdmama
• Americas best loved poems www.favoritepoem.org
• Teen ink www.teenpaper.com
• Aha! Poetry(Asian poetics)www.ahapoetry.com
• Poets corner directed towards diversity
  www.geocities.com/spanoudi/poems/index.html

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Using Poetry With Gifted Students

• Process methodology for gifted students
• http//www.nexus.edu.au/teachstud/gat/hatzi_gi.htm
  
• Poetry techniques to challenge gifted students
• http//www.chalkface.com/pdfs/sample-PTTC.pdf

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Gifted Students, Cont..

• Creative strategies for teaching language arts to
  gifted students
• http//erice.org/digests/e612.html
• A focus on values
• http//www.kodak.com/global/en/consumer/education/
  lessonPlan066.shtml

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Poetry Therapyfor Students With Disabilities

• Writing therapy in the classroom A case study
  http//bll.epnet.com/citation.asp?
• Poetry writing in the classroom prevention and
  intervention
• http//bll.epnet.com/citation.asp?

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Poetic Benefits For Students With
Exceptionalities and Disabilities

• Multicultural literature reading to develop
  self-worth
• http//wilsontxt.hwwilson.com/pdffull/05893/LW7YJ/
  2F5.pdf

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Diversity Lesson Age

• Investigation of Ageism
• In America

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Internet Discovery Activity

• Students will conduct an internet search (google,
  yahoo, etc.) on the key word ageism.
• Students will visit at least 5 websites and
  record key information from each

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Group Discussion

• Students will report information from internet
  discovery to class in a group discussion format
• Instructor will record key points of student
  discoveries on board

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Journal Response

• Students should focus entry on how their
  discoveries made them feel, what they think could
  be done to stop ageism, and if they know anyone
  that has been a victim of ageism.

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Brain Storming

• Students will generate 2 lists
• 1.) Detail their current likes/dislikes,
  favorite activities, etc.
• 2.) Predict what their likes/dislikes will be
  fifty years in the future.

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Brain Storming Example

• I like Rap music, action movies, playing
  football
• I dont like Romance movies, living at home,

• I think I will like Jazz music, watching
  football, mystery movies, watching the news
• I wont like Loud teenagers, rap music

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Poetry Writing

• Using the two lists as a writing prompt, students
  will compose a poem from the perspective of their
  future selves looking back on themselves as teens.

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Useful Websites Ageism

• What is Ageism?
• http//www.healthandage.com/Home/gid21639
• Aging Ageism
• http//www.pscw.uva.nl/sociosite/TOPICS/aging.html
  
• Ageism Resources
• http//falcon.jmu.edu/ramseyil/ageism.htm

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More Useful Websites

• Ageism
• http//www.aoa.gov/NAIC/Notes/ageism.htm
• NWSA Aging Ageism Caucus
• http//www.nwsa.org/aging.htm

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Diversity Lesson Race

• Examination of Race in a Poem by Langston Hughes

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Poetry Reading

• I, Too, by
• Langston Hughes
• The instructor will read poem aloud to class

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Small Group Discussion

• Students will get into groups of three or four
  and discuss implications of poem, if they are
  valid , and how they would respond to Hughes
  given the chance.

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Class Discussion

• Small groups will choose one speaker to present
  views discussed in their group
• Instructor will record points of discussion on
  board

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Journal Response

• Students responses will focus on their
  interpretation of what Hughes is saying to them
  as individuals
• How does this make them feel? Do they agree or
  disagree with Hughes?

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Poetry Writing

• Students will compose a poem in response to I,
  Too by Langston Hughes
• Students poetry must directly address the issues
  raised by Hughes as identified in class
  discussion journal entries

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Useful Websites Race

• World Conference on Racism
• http//www.un.org/WCAR
• Race, Racism,, the Law
• http//academic.udayton.edu/race/
• Multiculturalism Diversity- The New Racism
• http//multiculturalism.aynrand.org/

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More Useful Websites

• Sociosite Ethnicity, Migration Racism
• http//www.pscwuva.nl/sociosite/TOPICS/Ethnic.html
  
• ACLU Racial Equality
• http//www.aclu.org/profiling/

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Diversity Lesson Class

• A Closer Look at the Issue of Class in a Poem by
  Langston Hughes

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Poetry Reading

• Ballad of the Landlord, by Langston Hughes
• Instructor will read poem aloud to class

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Brainstorming

• Students will pair off and generate plausible
  dialogue that would take place between a landlord
  and renter as found in the poem

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Role Playing

• Students will act out brief scene using the
  dialogue they created between the narrator of the
  poem and the landlord

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Journal Response

• Students responses should focus on what they
  would do if they were in the narrators position,
  what role the class of the people involved
  played, and why the narrator may have reacted the
  way he did in the poem

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Poetry Writing

• Students will compose a poem concerning a time
  when they have been aware of their own class
  status and how it made them feel or how a
  situation may have turned out differently if they
  were part of another class

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Useful Websites Class

• You Want Class Warfare?
• http//www.tompaine.com/op_ads/opad.cfm/ID/7085
• Class Warfare Fact Fiction
• http//www.tcf.org/Publications/Issue_Briefs/Class
  Warfare/intro.pdf

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More Useful Websites

• Class Warfare
• http//www-csli.stanford.edu/nunberg/class.html
• Class Warfare
• http//www.thbookservice.com/BookPage.asp?prod_cd
  c6112
• Now Is the Time
• http//www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,605
  591,00.html

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Diversity Lesson Language

• International Poetry as an Introduction to
  Foreign Culture

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Internet Discovery

• Students will engage in an internet search for
  poetry written in a language other than English

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Poetry Translation

• Students will use the internet to obtain an
  English translation of the poem

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Poetry Reading

• Students will read in class the poem in its
  language of origin and then share the translation

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Journal Response

• Students entries should focus on how the point
  of view presented in the poem may be similar to
  or different than their own in regards to the
  topic of the poem

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Poetry Writing

• Students will write a poem about the country of
  origin for the poem they found.
• Poem should focus on what they learned about the
  culture and people

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Useful Websites Language

• Apples Oranges
• Poetry Magazine
• http//www.aopoetry.com/
• International Poetry
• http//www.geocities.com/johbeil/transl_index.html

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More Useful Websites

• International Poetry Forum
• http//www.thepoetryforum.org/
• Poetry Repair Shop
• http//www.geocities.com/poetryrepairs
• The Poetry Challenge
• http//www.poetrychallenge.org/

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Diversity Lesson Belief Systems/Religions
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Useful Websites Belief Systems/Religion

• http//aril.org/World.html
• http//www.nwrcl.org/
• http//www.splcenter.org/teachingtolerance/tt-inde
  x.html
• http//home.earthlink.net/7Edboals1/diversit.html
  
• http//www.mhhc.com/socscience/education/multi/act
  ivites.html

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Activity

• Students will be asked to bring in different
  examples of ethnic/religious intolerance in
  current events.
• Students will then discuss their chosen topics
  with the class.

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Activity

• Examples of different cultural poetry will be
  read in class to students.
• Students will then be asked to get into groups
  and discuss the poems.

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Activity

• Students will be asked to choose one culture or
  religion to research.
• Students will be required to complete a graphic
  organizer based on their research.

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Activity

• After completing a graphic organizer, students
  will write a poem about their chosen culture or
  religion.

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Activity

• Each student will be required to creatively
  publish their poem to be put on display in the
  classroom, hall, etc.

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Diversity Lesson Gender
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Useful Websites Gender

• http//www.edc.org/WomensEquity/about/define.htm
• http//www.ed.gov/offices/ODS/g-equity.html
• http//www.unicef.org/voy/meeting/gir/girhome.html
  
• http//www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/long
  term/gender/gender26a.htm
• http//www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/wellness/gender.h
  tml

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Activity

• Students will be asked to discuss different
  aspects and stereotypes related to gender.

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Activity

• Students will divide into groups and brainstorm
  about how their own gender has affected their
  lives.

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Activity

• After reflecting back on their own gender,
  students will fill out a prewriting sheet in
  preparation of writing a poem.

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Activity

• Students will write a poem about what their
  gender means to them.

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Activity

• Students will be required to publish their poem.
• The poems will then be displayed in the classroom.

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Diversity Lesson Sexual Orientation
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Useful Websites Sexual Orientation

• http//www.glsen.org/
• http//psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/index.html
• http//www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/Diversity/Sp
  ecific/Sexual-Orientation/index.html
• http//www.swarthmore.edu/Library/ghuber1index/sho
  rtstory.index.html
• http//www.intac.com/7Esdeck/habib/index3.html

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Activity

• The class will have a discussion about sexual
  orientation issues and the sensitivity towards
  the subject.

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Activity

• Students will divide into groups and discuss how
  tolerance towards sexual orientation can be
  heightened.

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Activity

• Students will be read poetry by authors of
  different sexual orientations.

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Activity

• After reading the chosen poetry, students will be
  required to write a reflection.

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Activity

• Students will be asked to write a plan as to how
  schools can promote sexual orientation awareness.