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Exploring the Power of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Words Through Diamante Poetry |
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This lesson asks students to explore the ways that powerful and passionate words communicate the concepts of freedom, justice, discrimination, and the American Dream in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. Students read, listen to, or view King's speech and pay close attention to his word use and use of literary devices. They analyze King's definitions of freedom, justice, discrimination, and dreams as demonstrated by the details in his speech. After a thorough exploration of the power of the speech, students choose powerful words and themes from the text and arrange them into original diamante poems.
While this lesson focuses on the "I Have a Dream" speech, it could be adapted to any of King's speeches, as well as to famous speeches by others, such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" speech, Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address," or Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" |
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English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 9 | 18. Analyze a speaker's rhetorical, aesthetic, and organizational choices in order to determine point of view and purpose. | English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 10 | 18. Analyze a speaker's rhetorical, aesthetic, and organizational choices in order to determine point of view and purpose.
Examples: Analyze Mahatma Gandhi's "Quit India" speech.
Analyze "The Appeal of 18 June" by Charles de Gaulle. | English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 11 | 21. Analyze a speaker's rhetorical, aesthetic, and organizational choices in order to determine point of view, purpose, and effectiveness. | English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 12 | 16. Analyze elements of audible communications and evaluate their effectiveness in terms of subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility of digital sources.
Examples: words, music, sound effects | English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 12 | 21. Analyze a speaker's rhetorical, aesthetic, and organizational choices in order to determine point of view, purpose, and effectiveness. |
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analyze, Diamante Poems, I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King Jr, poems, poetry, speech, Stapleless Book |
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