Exploring the power of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s words through diamante poetry
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A lesson plan for Grade 11 English III
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- Appropriate grades
- 11
- Subjects
- English language arts (writing), social studies (United States history), thinking skills (critical literacy)
- Provider
- IRA/NCTE
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Students explore the ways that powerful and passionate words communicate the concepts of freedom, justice, discrimination, and the American Dream. Upon reading Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech, students evaluate literary devices such as symbol and repetition and the use of analogies to create their own diamante poems that juxtapose contrasting ideas.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
English Language Arts (2004)
Grade 11 — English III
- Goal 2: The learner will inform an audience by using a variety of media to research and explain insights into language and culture.
- Objective 2.02: Examine and explain how culture influences language through projects such as:
- showing the evolution of forms of communication in the United States (e.g., the Pony Express, telegraph, telephone, fax, e-mail).
- tracing the development of technology in a particular area such as audio or video recordings, radio, television, and film.
- demonstrating proficiency in accessing and sending information electronically, using conventions appropriate to the audience.
- Objective 2.02: Examine and explain how culture influences language through projects such as:
- Goal 4: The learner will critically analyze text to gain meaning, develop thematic connections, and synthesize ideas.
- Objective 4.03: Assess the power, validity, and truthfulness in the logic of arguments given in public and political documents by:
- identifying the intent and message of the author or artist.
- recognizing how the author addresses opposing viewpoints.
- articulating a personal response to the message and method of the author or artist.
-evaluating the historical significance of the work.
- Objective 4.03: Assess the power, validity, and truthfulness in the logic of arguments given in public and political documents by:
- Goal 6: The learner will apply conventions of grammar and language usage.
- Objective 6.01: Demonstrate an understanding of the conventions of language by:
- decoding vocabulary using knowledge of Anglo-Saxon, Greek, and Latin bases and affixes.
- discerning the relationship of word meanings between pairs of words in analogies (synonyms/antonyms, connotation/denotation).
- revising writing to enhance voice and style, sentence variety, subtlety of meaning, and tone in considerations of questions being addressed, purpose, audience, and genres.
- contrasting use of language conventions of authors in different time periods of United States literature.
-analyzing the power of standard usage over nonstandard usage in formal settings such a job interviews, academic environment, or public speaking events.
- Objective 6.01: Demonstrate an understanding of the conventions of language by:
