KWHL OR ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
How does our knowledge and preferences for music shape our cultural identities? What type of music is familiar to you and why? Which genres are you least familiar with and why? What are some of the assumptions and stereotypes that may be attached to certain genres?
DELIVERABLES:
Part I: Students will be able to define cultural markers and folksongs through research of social, political, ethnic traditions represented in a curated playlist of folksongs (minimum 5).
Part II: Students will then synthesize folksongs, erasures, and pamplisets to curate docu-poetry (minimum three pages written or six if you're including graphics) that represents their cultures of choice and explain how these choices shape their identity.
VOCABULARY:
Documentary poetry - dynamic art that utilizes existing texts, videos, cartography, visual art, research, and archives that relates historical narratives on the micro or macro level of social justice systems.
Palimpsest: a very old document on which the original writing has been erased and replaced with new writing.
Erasure Poems: a form of found poetry or found art created by erasing words from an existing text and framing the result on the page as a poem.
EXEMPLARS:
Documentary poetry - “This Paradise of Fugitive Dust” with permission from Craig Perez Santos (pending permission) is a native Chamoru from Pacific Island of Guahan/Guam. He is the Program Director of Creative Writing at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Palimpsest - example by Chris Patton, poet.
Erasure - (above)
Word Bank:
Subjectivity
Objectivity
Implicit bias
Diaspora
Indigeneity
Individual vs. Institutional racism
Incarcerated vs. interred
RESOURCES:
Folksong
Slavery songs
http://www.balladofamerica.com/music/indexes/songs/ohfreedom/
Bob Marley
Japanese Plantation Song ( ballads)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhpAvcfNeoA
APL Song – Allan Pineda Lindo (also known as apl.de.ap) is a Filipino-American rapper and singer in the group The Black Eyed Peas.
Additional resources:
HOW TO TEACH DOCUMENTARY POETRY - SUSAN M. SCHULTZ, University of Hawaii at Manoa, English Professor
POET MARY RUEFLE ON ERASURES -
"I spent the first half of my life leaving words in the world, and will spend the last half taking them out!"
How does our knowledge and preferences for music shape our cultural identities? What type of music is familiar to you and why? Which genres are you least familiar with and why? What are some of the assumptions and stereotypes that may be attached to certain genres?
DELIVERABLES:
Part I: Students will be able to define cultural markers and folksongs through research of social, political, ethnic traditions represented in a curated playlist of folksongs (minimum 5).
Part II: Students will then synthesize folksongs, erasures, and pamplisets to curate docu-poetry (minimum three pages written or six if you're including graphics) that represents their cultures of choice and explain how these choices shape their identity.
VOCABULARY:
Documentary poetry - dynamic art that utilizes existing texts, videos, cartography, visual art, research, and archives that relates historical narratives on the micro or macro level of social justice systems.
Palimpsest: a very old document on which the original writing has been erased and replaced with new writing.
Erasure Poems: a form of found poetry or found art created by erasing words from an existing text and framing the result on the page as a poem.
EXEMPLARS:
Documentary poetry - “This Paradise of Fugitive Dust” with permission from Craig Perez Santos (pending permission) is a native Chamoru from Pacific Island of Guahan/Guam. He is the Program Director of Creative Writing at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Palimpsest - example by Chris Patton, poet.
Erasure - (above)
Word Bank:
Subjectivity
Objectivity
Implicit bias
Diaspora
Indigeneity
Individual vs. Institutional racism
Incarcerated vs. interred
RESOURCES:
Folksong
Slavery songs
http://www.balladofamerica.com/music/indexes/songs/ohfreedom/
Bob Marley
Japanese Plantation Song ( ballads)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhpAvcfNeoA
APL Song – Allan Pineda Lindo (also known as apl.de.ap) is a Filipino-American rapper and singer in the group The Black Eyed Peas.
Additional resources:
HOW TO TEACH DOCUMENTARY POETRY - SUSAN M. SCHULTZ, University of Hawaii at Manoa, English Professor
POET MARY RUEFLE ON ERASURES -
"I spent the first half of my life leaving words in the world, and will spend the last half taking them out!"