Unit 3: Unit 3: Identity in Poetry

Students will know how to:
-Analyze how poetry reflects historical context through vocabulary, sensory details, and setting.
-Appreciate poetic language by identifying figurative language, sound patterns, and imagery, and understanding their impact on meaning.
-Explore how poetic identities interact with the city's dynamic forces, including performance, observation, and improvisation.
-Reflect on how identity and the self are shaped by relationships to people, places, and history.

Students will engage in material presented by Arizona State University and the Equity Lab. Students will be required to:
-Watch video lectures/discussions from Professor New and others and utilizing evidence from poetry in written responses.
-Read assigned material including informational texts, and poetry reading packets (approx. 60 minutes).
-Write a summative discussion post to the prompt provided on Canvas and reply to two others
-Take a quiz on unit material

Student will demonstrate their learning by:

• Taking the unit quiz (7-8 Questions- 2 hour time limit once opened)
• Writing their summative discussion post and replies (assessed by TA using the summative discussion post rubric on the course Canvas page)