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Identity, Poetry & Activism
12018-08-28T02:31:11-07:00Emma Cones5843638d9869213592e0134afed3eb0585ed3a5a312237plain2020-03-26T10:06:10-07:00Emma Cones5843638d9869213592e0134afed3eb0585ed3a5aWe wanted to highlight the importance for kids to learn about self-love and for them to learn about themselves and their identities. We did an exercise where students learned about identities by writing a brief sentence about themselves stating their age, where they were from and something that they like to do. This fortunately started a conversation about what identities are, what they mean and how ones identity impacts their everyday life. For this exercise these students were asked to read 4 poems that focused on the writers' identity/identities. We read “I too” by Langston Hughes, “I am Guatemala” by Rustle McBride, “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou and “I am What I am” by Rosario Morales. The students read the poems and then were asked what identities they think each poem is about, what the tone of the poem was (angry, happy, hopeful), the audience the poet was speaking too and how they feel about their identities.
The students then were given the task of writing their own poem based on the poem “I Am What I Am” by Rosario Morales. The “I AM, Poems” page consists of all of the students' wonderful identity exercise responses.