White Teeth Lesson Plan

Twitter Poetry

Kind of Activity:

Creative Writing

Objective:

Students will be able to assess the point of view of a character in a text and respond creatively to that point of view.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3.D

Structure:

Irie's class' reading of Shakespeare's Sonnet 127 establishes a fixed meaning of the text, based on what they think its words meant when they were first penned. This interpretation leaves little space for an interpretation where the relationship between blackness and beauty is more than figurative. It also provides another instance where the work of Shakespeare, a metonym for the whole of English...