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Reinforcing Poetry with Tupac

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Reviewed:: Jun 6, 2022 by English

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Overview:

In this PowerPoint, students can review some poetic devices, read a brief bio about Tupac Shakur, read some of his poetry and respond to True or False statements regarding poems from Tupac's collection of poetry, The Rose That Grew From Concrete.

This presentation includes links to music videos and a concert.

Type of Material:

Tutorial on undertsanding poetry through Tupac Shakur's poems

Recommended Uses:

This would best serve as a model for a student presentation.

Users must have a high proficency in English language that could help them understand literary rhetoric.

Technical Requirements:

Google Slides

Identify Major Learning Goals:

Users will apply poetry vocabulary to poetry by Tupac Shakur.

The users of this tutorial might understand very basic poetic terms through short poems by Tupac Shakur. In addition, the users may develop a sensational perception of the poetic significance and connotations.

Target Student Population:

High School students

Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

A Google Drive has to be downloaded on a computer or a laptop or an Ipad to enable the users to view this tutorial.

Content Quality

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Strengths:: This slide show defines literary terms and shows examples.
Concerns:: Work contains errors in punctuation, typos, and unprofessional formatting. This work is the quailty of a beginning student, not a professional in the field.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

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Strengths:

This tutorial is considered to be an effective preliminary step for any users who are interested in starting to understanding English poetry before plunging into the classics of the American and the English classical periods of poetry.

Concerns:

The material is static and contains very little insight or information.

The content can be referred to by many users of different cultural backgrounds.But in fact, it might be unclear for some users, as the cultural interconnection might not exist between the thoughts of the poet and the faculty of comprehensibility on behalf of the users.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

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Strengths:

The explanation of the poetic terms in this tutorial is easily grasped at by any user. The terms explained in plain English do not require a dictionary of literary terms.

Concerns:

Layout is cluttered and visually distracting.
Hyperlinks are not clearly indicated.
Material does not open as a presentation but as a slide in presenter's view.
The content includes some ideas that could be misleading for some users, especially students. So,these users are advised to refer to an English language teacher/ instructor to unveil the vagueness of such intricacy.

Other Issues and Comments:

Students may no longer recognize the artist who is the focus of the presentation.

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