Power in Poems: Tips for engaging students by teaching poetry
Explore tips from teachers on teaching poetry. Use these ideas for teaching poetry activities and lessons in the classroom to students.
Student contest winners: Hispanic Heritage Month Rap Contest 2022
For Hispanic Heritage Month, Flocabulary invited students to be researchers, lyricists, and rappers. Meet the 2022 student contest winners!
Edgar Allan Poe… Rapped.
To honor Edgar Allan Poe's 200th birthday, Flocabulary produced two music videos. A perfect supplement when covering the great poet and author, these videos underscore the parallels that exist throughout centuries of American art. Poe is Hip-Hop. Enjoy! First, in "The Pit and the Pendulum," an isolated prisoner recounts his horrific tale of captivity and torture: . Meanwhile, in "The Cask of Amontillado," a deranged man decides to lure an acquaintance to his cellar and bury him alive: View high-def versions and find more educational hip-hop songs at http://www.flocabulary.com.
The Poetics of Hip-Hop Lesson Plan
This comprehensive high school lesson plan, from the Kennedy Center's ArtsEdge program, helps student make connections between poetry (Giovanni, Saul Williams) Rap lyrics (Blackalicious) and Shakespeare. The parallels are excellent and this is a great example of how teachers can use rap as a mirror for poetry. For more lesson plans, check out Flocabulary's Teacher Resources. You can also hear this idea in action with Flocabulary's literature raps.