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Article: Slam: performance poetry lives on.
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- Writing!
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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OBJECTIVES: To introduce students to the art form of slam and to help them trace its development in the context of the tradition of performance poetry
PREREADING VOCABULARY
undulating, placards, exclusionary, transcending, bout, groundwork, niche, coveted, acclaimed, prim, flair, embellishments, static, bards, epic poems, synthesis, sonnets, iambic pentameter, elevate, Beat poets, roving, epiphanies, pondering, stodgy
PREREADING ACTIVITY
Discuss This: Read this quote to your class: "You've got a poem in your pocket, a poem on your tongue, did you know that? You can be the poet and you can be the poem too. Yesssss!" Ask students to ...