Sentences with phrase «spoken word poems»

It is a chance for them to perform spoken word poems, premiere video pieces, and showcase their digital illustrations and photography work in addition to their collaborative art workshops with CSTO's Square Roots youth.

To help students grapple with complex issues of identity, membership, and belonging, consider teaching one or both of the following spoken word poems.

Washington DC high school English teacher Clint Smith is still in his first few years of teaching, but his spoken word poems cut right to the heart of the teaching experience.

I've collected a few videos of spoken word poems for you to enjoy — by teachers, by students, or about issues in schools.

Several of his spoken word poems on Youtube have been viewed over thousands of times.

22 - year - old Jefferson Bethke says in the video, reciting a spoken word poem he wrote.

Before that, the spoken word poem «Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus» took off with a message that confronted frustrations with religious legalism.

Hollie McNish, a very talented poet, delivers a beautiful spoken word poem titled «Embarrassed» about the ironies breastfeeding mothers face on a daily basis.

Narelys Chum performing a spoken word poem during Black History Day at Troy High School.

To enter students simply submit a two - minute audio or visual recording of their original spoken word poem on the topic of memories.

Your mind is too monumental,» recited Williams in his spoken word poem, titled «Reassurance» that speaks to those who want to empower themselves to make a better future.

This eloquent spoken word poem by Shane Koyczan reminds us that it's a matter of our hearts too.

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An extension of the spoken introductions, perhaps, the song - cycle even includes a spoken word performance, a reading of Robert Service's grimly comic poem, «The Cremation of Sam McGee.»

Just invent a poem, and recite some words and pretend that you speak to people who have died.

Their words, carelessly spoken, spent the last 40 days in my home — getting creased and folded, worked over, brushed aside to make room for dinner, stepped on by a toddler, read by my sister, stained with coffee, shoved into a closet when guests arrive, blacked out, thrown away, turned into poems, and folded into sailboats and cranes and pigeons that now sit smiling at me from my office window.

If he really on the night of his betrayal spoke the prayer «Not as I will, but as Thou wilt,» these words expressly deny the justice of God and signify silent submission to God like the words in the poem of Job.

The poem speaks of a love letter lost — of words left unsaid and proclamations of what someone means to us lost in the wind.

Nixon, speaking one of Dickinson's most famous poems in voice - over, conveys a sense of gentle wonder; speaking the words as if they're just now emerging and yet were always there.

LESSON # 2: SPEAKING OF F - WORDS, «FINE» HAS A PERFECT ACRONYM — There is a hilarious gem of an acrostic poem (click here) flowing out of those four letters.

Among the findings: (1) art activities can be integrated into classroom content and used to encourage rehearsal - type activities (such as songs) that incorporate relevant subject matter, (2) incorporating information into story, poem, song, or art form may place the knowledge in context, which can help students remember it, especially if the students are creating art that relates subject matter to themselves, (3) through artistic activities like writing a story or creating a drawing, students generate information they might otherwise have simply read, which will very likely lead to better long - term retention of that information, (4) physically acting out material, such as in a play, helps learners recall information, (5) speaking words aloud results in better retention than reading words in silence, (6) increasing the amount of effort involved in learning new information (such as being asked to discern meaning from an ambiguous sentence or to interpret a work of art) is positively associated with its retention, (7) emotionally charged content is easier to remember than content linked to events that are emotionally neutral, and (8) information presented as pictures is retained better than the same information presented as words.

Engaging with classical and contemporary poems and exploring spoken word performances, Words That Burn aims to help young people discover that their voice matters and their words can make a differWords That Burn aims to help young people discover that their voice matters and their words can make a differwords can make a difference.

A cleaned - up version of Taylor Mali's spoken - word poem, a sharp and brilliant retort to those who criticize teachers.

«Some mothers can get their two - year - olds to recite the entire English alphabet, count to 100, read more than 100 Chinese characters, speak more than 60 words in English, recite 10 Tang - era Chinese poems, and recite the multiplication table up to 9x9.»

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Poems from many times and places speak in plain words about the cruelty of war and about the courage and dignity of soldiers and civilians.

This vibrant collection of spoken - word poetry captures the raw street - savvy language of rap and hip - hop and the aggressive energy of slam poems, as well as other poetry, all meant to be read out loud.

If you can correctly pronounce every word in this poem, you speak English better than 90 % of English speakers in the world.

Clockwise Cat prefers to receive poems that are in some way akin to the Symbolist, Dadaist, Surrealist, Beat, spoken word, and experimental genres.

The backbone of Grosse Fatigue is a long poem delivered in the style of spoken word, the form of expression used to great effect in the 1970s by the New York musicians, The Last Poets.

Henrot incorporates a poem, a collaboration with Jacob Bromberg, delivered as a spoken word performance, and music with a diverse range of imagery that includes objects from the Smithsonian Institute in Washington and found footage from the web.

They're the final words spoken by the narrator of Oliver Laric's video Versions (2012), which was displayed in the entrance; Laric himself lifted the phrase from a 2001 poem, «Citizen», by Canadian poet Fred Wah.

But the book, in its totality from page to page, can actually be read as much more — as a long synesthetic poem, one that imagines a shape, color, and sound for words and speaks to our profoundest understanding of human expression.

... Everyone needs to adventure to discover his own sensibility and his own form, to begin, no matter how poorly at first, to speak out of his own soul, to make a music of his own sounds, a poem of his own words, a painting of his own lines, colors and forms.»