Thursday, October 1, 2015

Poetry about racism

The mighty 9RTd have been thinking about racism as part of our current unit. We chose to study The Freedom Writers, and out of that flowed discussion around the theme of racism.

As part of this, we looked at some poems about racism, mostly by Harlem Renaissance poets and Maya Angelou. Here's some visible learning (how to process poetry for understanding) from annotating the poems in pairs.


Still I rise by Maya Angelou

Equality by Maya Angelou

Racsim has a human heart by John Nelson



Racism is around us everywhere by John Duggan

I, too by Langston Hughes

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