Lesson Plan
Grades 6-8
Grades 9-10
Grades 11-12

Stereotypes, Cerebral Palsy and Poetry Extensions/Adaptations

Extensions/Adaptations

Research the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Explore ways to share information about these laws with the community.

Read works of other Chinese poets or novelists.

Write poems about students' experiences of their own community/neighborhood/school. Collect other poems about their surroundings (e.g., poems about rural life, or describing a city street, or honoring inspirational teachers). Create a pop-up poetry reading featuring the works that the class has written and collected.

Sources

About the author:

Faith Rogow

Faith Rogow, Ph.D., is the co-author of The Teacher's Guide to Media Literacy: Critical Thinking in a Multimedia World (Corwin, 2012) and past president of the National Association for Media Literacy Education. She has written discussion guides and lesson plans for more than 250 independent films.

Faith Rogow