{"id":288,"date":"2021-01-23T16:13:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T23:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationispowerful.net\/?p=288"},"modified":"2021-07-09T18:06:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T00:06:00","slug":"amanda-gormans-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationispowerful.net\/amanda-gormans-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Resources to Teach Amanda Gorman’s Poem for the 2021 Inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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I don\u2019t know about you, but I was blown away by Amanda Gorman\u2019s poem \u201cThe Hill We Climb.\u201d\u00a0 I found it inspiring and amazing for being so young.\u00a0 Here are some resources to teach Amanda Gorman\u2019s inauguration poem.<\/span><\/p>

If teaching this poem may be controversial where you teach \u2013 check out<\/span> this blog post on my tips for teaching political texts<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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PBS<\/a> has gathered video and text of Amanda\u2019s poems.\u00a0 They have included google docs and padlets to help support remote learning. After examining the poems, students write a free response or poem.\u00a0 PBS has also included extension activities such as reading additional poems by black poets, discussing mood and tone, an allusion scavenger hunt, interviews, and Amanda\u2019s Ted-Ed talk.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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This lesson<\/a> starts with building students\u2019 background knowledge about Amanda.\u00a0 It then teaches about Occasional Poetry and the tradition with links to other occasional poetry.\u00a0 After all this background knowledge the New York Times has provided guiding questions for discussion and analysis.\u00a0 For extension, they have ideas for writing your own occasional poem, creating an animated poem, writing a reader\u2019s theater script, and a paired text.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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