Slam Examples: Learning
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Identifying the basic physical characteristics of slam:
Sketch a basic silhouette onto a blank piece of paper.
While you watch the first two slam poems please label at least 5 observations regarding the physical characteristics.
With the class, share your observations and add their observations to your images.
Note:
Hands
Back (posture)
Legs (movement?
Head
Sketch a basic silhouette onto a blank piece of paper.
While you watch the first two slam poems please label at least 5 observations regarding the physical characteristics.
With the class, share your observations and add their observations to your images.
Note:
Hands
Back (posture)
Legs (movement?
Head
Identifying the basic facial characteristics of a slam:
Sketch a basic silhouette of a face onto a blank piece of paper.
While you watch the third and fourth slams please label at least 5 observations regarding the facial characteristics.
With the class, share your observations and add their observations to your images.
Note:
Forehead
Eye brows
Eyes
Mouth
Neck
Chin
Sketch a basic silhouette of a face onto a blank piece of paper.
While you watch the third and fourth slams please label at least 5 observations regarding the facial characteristics.
With the class, share your observations and add their observations to your images.
Note:
Forehead
Eye brows
Eyes
Mouth
Neck
Chin
Identifying the basic voice of a slam poem:
Write the subheading Voice/ Tone.
While you listen to fifth and sixth slams keep track of 5 observations about their voice.
-Is it fast/ Slow?
-High/ Low?
-Do they pause?
-What emotion is in their voice?
-How do you know it is this emotion?
Write the subheading Voice/ Tone.
While you listen to fifth and sixth slams keep track of 5 observations about their voice.
-Is it fast/ Slow?
-High/ Low?
-Do they pause?
-What emotion is in their voice?
-How do you know it is this emotion?
Using a Venn DIagram, please watch one rant and one slam (perhaps the seventh) and make notes of their similarities and differences.
1. Question- are these forms for different audiences?
2. Determine importance- which form most affects you emotionally/ mentally and why?
3. Inference- which would be more difficult to perform and why?
4. Synthesis- which form would have the most power to affect change and explain why?
1. Question- are these forms for different audiences?
2. Determine importance- which form most affects you emotionally/ mentally and why?
3. Inference- which would be more difficult to perform and why?
4. Synthesis- which form would have the most power to affect change and explain why?
Round Table Discussion: Louder than a Bomb
1. How might you connect to these students?
2. Choose any character and predict the outcome of their life?
3. Visualize how you might be different if were in a SLAM club: touch, taste, sounds, sights, smells.
4.Define SLAM poetry.
5.Synthesize the big message of this Doc. Answer, what does SLAM bring to their life?
1. How might you connect to these students?
2. Choose any character and predict the outcome of their life?
3. Visualize how you might be different if were in a SLAM club: touch, taste, sounds, sights, smells.
4.Define SLAM poetry.
5.Synthesize the big message of this Doc. Answer, what does SLAM bring to their life?
