As Los Angeles’ fire continues to burn, our students face the sad reality of climate change. Regardless of whether they are directly influenced by flames, smoke, or social media feeds, it is natural that they feel desperate and helpless in such a terrible event. is.
Enter Amanda Goman, a former youth poet award winner and a champion for young people. She never moves away from the harsh truth facing the United States, but she always leaves space for her hope. Her new poem, the dawn dawn, is no exception to the fire that threatens her own house and destroyed her hometown.
It is an ideal text to share with students, creating an opportunity to explore what is happening in LA in an interdisciplinary exploration, and has an attached lesson plan to help students handle this tragedy.
Let’s look into the lesson
This download provides step -by -step activities to guide students to see Goman’s poems and interpret it. They contain a climate condition survey that led to California’s situation, creating a pager that interprets Goman’s art through scientific lenses.
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Start
Before you dig into the text of the project, please introduce the idea of one -Pagger. If you haven’t done one pager so far, take a few minutes to explain the concept and show some examples in your class. Please inform the students in the context of the California climate situation to interpret Amandagman poems.
Next, share Goman’s poem with students. You can find it on Instagram.
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It takes a few minutes after the class listens to the poem, and explore the climate conditions that can help you cause a wildfire.
These are several possible sources, but if you don’t find them suitable for your students, you can find more.
Next step
Since the students have obtained the background information necessary to launch one page, they share the free curriculum set or the model included in your own model to give the project.
Project (or distribute) one -Pagger requirements. There are some possibilities here:
Use the border to explain and explain the conditions that have led to this mountain fire. Select at least one image from Goman’s poem to represent at least two images that show the understanding of people affected by the area and fire. Choose the intentional color to enhance your mood and emotions you want to convey to your one -Pager. Include at least three quotes from the poem around the image. Amanda Goman creates a space for hope in the poem. If necessary, create a space for one page for your own thoughts on additional images and climate change.
Providing a template as a starting point for one page can help you relieve creative overwhelming emotions while staring at a blank page.
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This set contains several options. Or you can create your own template. Students who are already satisfied with one -Pagger, or students who are shining in artistic projects may prefer to skip templates and start with beautiful paper. That’s okay!
Another path to success that you can take into account is that students who want to work digitally on one page of one pager, one of the slides or design programs like CANVA.
When your student works, circulate and answer the questions that come out. If you see a student struggling, you may invite someone nearby and invite someone to find a way to indicate what you are doing as an additional process.
Wrap it all
When the students are over, they end with a gallery walk, and everyone can see how they have expressed Goman’s work in combination with climate context.
If you want to expand your daily activities, you can move to a research project on climate change and the exploration of Amandagman poetry. Otherwise, it is a day lesson itself.
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