Lesson: Hear My Voice

Source: Philadelphia World Heritage Tool Kit

Created by: Olivia Cureton, D. Newlin School

Subjects: Language Arts

Grade Levels: 7

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Overview: Students will identify cultural experiences, analyzing place and tone by writing about, reading, speaking, and listening to poetry from the era of The Harlem Renaissance.

Objectives: The students read and listen to poetry, focus on comprehension, and make connections among the ideas and between texts. Students will also cite evidence when analyzing meaning of poems. The students will also analyze the setting of text, discussing and writing about similarities and differences between poems.  Students will also analyze cultural impact of poems of Harlem Renaissance writers.

The Philadelphia World Heritage Tool Kit

This lesson is one of 29 lessons (K-12, all subjects) in the Philadelphia World Heritage Tool Kit. The goal of the Tool Kit is to help educators and their students develop a transnational analysis in their classrooms by using complex themes of world heritage as a framework to understand global regions across disciplines. These themes include shared architectural, cultural, economic, environmental, political, recreational, religious, and social heritage features.  Real teachers created these lessons and based their work on “best practices” that reflect student collaboration and the broad goals of young people in ways that support care and understanding of others who may be very different in background and history.