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instructions: Your task for this final activity in our poetry unit is to find a Spoken Word piece that should be studied at your school. You will write a 500-750 word paper explaining why this piece should be taught. Include a link to the Spoken Word piece in the comments of the dropbox. In this paper you should try out some of the essay writing strategies that you learned in the previous essay unit.
This is a great resource: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5DH3eN81b0RGJ7Xj3fsjVg
Things to Consider:
When you are trying to make the case for why your selection should be taught at your school, you might want to consider the some of the following as potential paragraph topics:
the performance of the artist
the use of poetic devices
the theme of the piece
your personal connection to the piece
how a high school audience would react to the piece
your own ideas
Your essay should have an introduction, body, and conclusion; however, the number of paragraphs and paragraph division is up to you. You might want to try some of the writing strategies listed below:
Introduction Strategies
Tell a short personal anecdote
Ask a series of questions
Start with a list
Start with a quotation
Make an impact statement
Body Paragraph Strategies
After a series of long sentences, try a short sentence for impact
Use quotations from the piece as evidence
Be very selective with your word choice.
Use your experience in the classroom as evidence
Conclusion Strategies
Answer “what now?”
Return to an idea from your introduction
Call to Action- what do you want your read to do?
Final impact statement
An example can be found here: (remember to download for proper format)
Why Words Matter: Spoken Word Essay
Why Words Matter
F. Sionil Jose was right when he said, “the influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future” (qtd. in Medrut). I know someone whose dream ever since she was eight was to become a doctor. From elementary school, she worked hard to make this dream into reality; she did extra practice at home, focused in school, and overall, had a passion for knowledge, until her last year in university. Her math professor was unfair in his marking, unclear in his teaching, and unhelpful overall; his influence turned her love for math into abhorrence. She got a low mark in math that year, never went to medical school, never became a doctor, and never accomplished her life goal. This story is about her; this story is about the person whom I call “Mom”. She loves the job she has today, but her heart is heavy with the weight of not achieving her lifelong dream all because of her math professor. The lessons a teacher can teach are beyond anyone else’s. The spoken word piece “Brown Boy. White House” provides perfect ground for just these discussions. The spoken word piece “Brown Boy. White House” and should be taught at my school because it has good writing and speaking techniques, and most of all, an important educational theme about how racism in education can stunt peoples’ futures and needs to be changed.
In the first place, this spoken word piece should be taught at my school because it is a great piece to analyze for writing and speaking techniques. The primary point of teaching a piece of literature in school is to provide an opportunity for the students to further their understanding of writing. “Brown Boy. White House” spoken word gives the chance to do exactly that. One of the writing techniques and poetic device that can be analyzed in the piece is imagery, we see one when the speaker says, “we like our borders like we like our picket fences” (00:02:19 – 00:02:21). This simile creates a mental image in the listener’s mind that allows them to find the connection between our borders and picket fences, the connection of them both needing to be white. Accepting no other colour, race, ethnicity, or culture. We hear the words “growing up in Texas, one learns to practice patience, practice repetition patience, patience makes perfect” repeated many times in the poem, which creates a motif (00:00:43 – 00:00:50). The repeating of these words creates the effect that the speaker has received a lot of hate growing up, which has forced him to become patient in life and with the people who treat him unfairly. This motif again reflects the theme of racism in the piece and visualizes the effect it has on people. We also witness the written poetry technique enjambment –the continuation of a sentence– multiple times in the piece. For example, when the speaker talks about the Patriot Act and references to how the Statue of Liberty was first returned because she was black, he onto saying that only skittle packages have diversity, he continues this idea, this sentence, without stopping or taking a pause. The continuation of sentences is a powerful way to demonstrate a wave of emotion. It shows his anger and frustration over being treated unfairly, being treated like they are less than white people. Overall, “Brown Boy. White House” is a great example of how writing and speaking techniques should be used, and spoken word should be performed, hence why it should be taught at my school.
Not only is this piece filled with good speaking and writing techniques, but “Brown Boy. White House” also has an educating theme, making it another reason to teach this piece at my school. This spoken word piece focuses on the topic of racism and racial stereotypes and specifically spotlights how it affects a person that has experienced racism. Although this topic is raised many times in our society, I have barely seen it make its way into classrooms. Education is the prime opportunity to mould a person and their beliefs, hence why educating students on racism through classwork can be especially benefitting. Listening to the speaker’s observations of society treating non-white people unfairly can connect students to the topic stronger and force them to think deeper about how they should treat others. The speaker talks of how everyone is forced to behave white and gives examples when he says, “a red boy is given a white name […] public schools teach that its is important to assimilate, so a yellow girl’s parents do the same” (Safi, 00:02:22 – 00:02:30). It can be observed here that racism, and the need to make everyone behave as white, tears away one’s heritage and personality. It shows students how racism can affect someone which can help them better empathize with people of different races and educate them on just how wrong it is to be racist. Throughout the piece, we hear the speaker repeat, “I still have calluses on my hand, I still have a hard time letting things go” (00:00:22 – 00:00:25). He describes his own encounters with racism and how even now he is scarred from those experiences. These lines and the rawness in his voice when he says them make the listener emotionally connect with him, and experience how it feels to have gone through such rough experiences in life. This emotional connection will discourage students from being racist, as they will understand how it scars someone for their entire life. Towards the end, the speaker makes an excellent point when he asks, “if black is the culmination of all colours, then why do we keep trying to stir this melting pot white” (00:02:53 – 00:02:59). This line alone can open space to an entire discussion and analysis. This sentence really hits the listener as it makes an unarguable, and logical point. It really forces one to wonder: why are we trying to turn everyone white? Why does white supremacy exist? These, and many other lines the speaker says in the spoken word, can be a key takeaway for students. Thus, this educational and pondering spoken word piece should be taught at my school.
In conclusion, “Brown Boy. White House” is an inspiring spoken word piece that needs to be taught at my school. Education has a significant impact on a person’s beliefs and morals. Education is a powerful tool. The way a teacher decides to use this power is up to them; they could challenge young minds to form a more ethical perspective on society’s issues and inspire them to be a better person or can cause this powerful tool to dissipate one’s hopes and dreams. The influence of a teacher is best reflected through the lessons taught in their classroom. Perhaps, if my mom’s math professor had been a more thoughtful and a fair-minded teacher, my mom would have fulfilled her dream of becoming a doctor. Instead, he moulded her into the person that loathes math and the woman who never got to pursue her dream. Teaching “Brown Boy. White House” is an opportunity for teachers to both educate their students on usage of writing and speaking techniques that they can incorporate into their own work, and an opportunity to educate students on the importance of equivalence and treating others with respect, hence why the spoken word piece “Brown Boy. White House” should be taught at my school.
Works Cited
Medrut, Flavia. “20 Teacher Quotes That Express Endless Appreciation For Our Mentors.” Goalcast. 8 May 2018.
