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Concrete Poem Assignment

- The document provides instructions for an assignment to write a concrete poem about a social issue. - It defines a concrete poem as one where the shape of the words on the page matches the subject of the poem. - Students are to choose a social issue and be evaluated on their understanding of the concrete poem structure, how well they address the social issue, the use of language and writing techniques, and the expression of tone.

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Concrete Poem Assignment

- The document provides instructions for an assignment to write a concrete poem about a social issue. - It defines a concrete poem as one where the shape of the words on the page matches the subject of the poem. - Students are to choose a social issue and be evaluated on their understanding of the concrete poem structure, how well they address the social issue, the use of language and writing techniques, and the expression of tone.

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Name: ________________________ Date: ______________________________

Concrete Poems
Concrete Poem:
A poem that is written so that the shape of words on the page matches the subject
of the poem.
Name: ________________________ Date: ______________________________

Assignment Due Monday, December 2nd, 2019


Your task is to ONE concrete poem based on any social issue of your
choice. You can search “list of social issues” on Google for some ideas. Some
issues you can consider, but are not limited to the following: (racism, religion,
bullying, what it means to be “perfect”, social media, grades not equating to
success, etc.)
Category Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
Knowledge/Understa - Structure is - Structure is - Structure is - Structure is clear
nding unclear somewhat unclear clear and coherent
- Student uses - Student uses poetic - Student uses - Student uses poetic
- Student has a clear poetic devices devices that are poetic devices devices are creative
understanding of poem that are difficult somewhat confusing and enhance the story
structure for acrostic to understand to understand in the poem
and concrete (3 for
each poem)
- Student enhanced
their poems with poetic
devices
/10
Application - Theme of the - Theme of the poem - Theme of the - Theme of the poem
poem is unclear is somewhat difficult poem is clear is clear and creative
- The content of the - Topic is unclear to understand - Topic is clear - Topic is clear and
poem reflected a and does not - Topic is somewhat - Details add appropriately reflects
current social issue reflect a current unclear or author and support the a current social issue
prevalent in our society social issue in our does not show effort story of the in our society
society in conveying the poem - Details significantly
- Most details do topic add to the story of the
not support the - Some details add to poem
/15 topic the story of the poem
Communication - Many word - Some word choice, - No more than - Strong word choice
choice, spelling, spelling, punctuation, 2 word choice, with no spelling,
- The word choices punctuation, and and grammatical spelling, punctuation, or
used in the poem are grammatical errors punctuation, or grammatical errors
used effectively errors - Some written grammatical - Written phrases and
- Written phrases phrases and sentences errors sentences are clear
and sentences are clear and - Most written and coherent
lack clarity or coherent phrases and
coherence sentences are
clear and
/10 coherent
Thinking - The mood and - The mood and tone - The mood and - The mood and tone
tone of the poem of the poem are tone of the of the poem are
- The tone of the poem are unclear somewhat unclear poem are clearly clearly and creatively
is clearly and creatively expressed expressed
expressed
- The student’s stance
on the issue is clear
/5

Total: __________

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