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Post Activities
Study "Tough Kid" - "Tough
Kid"
A
poem looks different from prose.
Grade Level: 2 - 4
Subject Area: Social Studies and ELA
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Objective: Students will analyze one poem from several
different perspectives.
They will:
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Rewrite
several lines of a street language poem into "proper English" and
contrast this version with the original to understand author's
purpose and how something is lost in translation.
- See that
quotation marks give readers a cue that people are talking.
- Discuss
the topic of bullying.
Materials: "Tough Kid"
a.
Read the poem with your students.
b.
Discuss the street language, and then re-write the poem in proper
English.
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Read it aloud both ways and discuss the difference.
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Why do you think the poet, Elizabeth Swados, wrote it in street
language?
c.
Discuss the use of quotation marks in the poem; write the words to the
poem on sentence strips, and use macaroni noodles to glue on as
quotation marks.
d.
Discuss how this child in the poem responds to bullying.
- How do you recognize when someone is acting like a bully?
- If you are bullied, what should you do?
e.
Discuss poetry slam as a community event that brings poets and
audiences together in the form of a creative contest. See
Poetry Definitions
for poetry slam.
Extension: For Grades 3 and above, you might want to
organize a Poetry Reading, a community event.
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