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OBJECTIVES: To introduce students to the art form of slam and to help them trace its development in the context of the tradition of performance poetry
PREREADING VOCABULARY
undulating, placards, exclusionary, transcending, bout, groundwork, niche, coveted, acclaimed, prim, flair, embellishments, static, bards, epic poems, synthesis, sonnets, iambic pentameter, elevate, Beat poets, roving, epiphanies, pondering, stodgy
PREREADING ACTIVITY
Discuss This: Read this quote to your class: "You've got a poem in your pocket, a poem on your tongue, did…
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Slam: performance poetry lives on.
...knowledge of and attitudes toward poetry, slam, and the spoken-word performance arts. EXTENSION ACTIVITIES Write...and poetry. TEACHER RESOURCES * Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry, edited by Gary Mex Glazner... |
 "Herald News, The (Joliet, IL)")
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Slam poetry hits home
...Recently 1998 National Slam Poetry champion Regie Gibson...High School. His performance seemed to start a resurgence of slam poets at our school...every Sunday night. Slam poetry is the competitive art of performance poetry. The emphasis... |
 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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POETRY SLAM PITS RHYME VS. REASON.(LIFE & LEISURE)
...burly reading known as a poetry slam looms on the performance scene. Its originator is coming...Marc Smith, founder of the poetry slam, which has spawned a clump of imitators, will offer a performance today at QE2, 13 Central Ave... |
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In Defense of SLAM! Nation.(slam poetry)
...have no place in poetry. They are activists...know it or not. Slam audiences are often...especially within poetry itself. It is slowly...inaccurately compared, slam is a truly diverse...changed people's lives. Thats what art...involved with art and performance, with words and... |
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Giving a Voice to Their Feelings; Slam Poetry Teaches Students Self- Expression
...will win the slam poetry hound dog?" Danley...only reads their slam poem but allows the...memorable day in their lives. Their work spanned...The point is the poetry." Danley has a...aloud. "This is slam," she told the...sentence structure and performance techniques. Maybe... |
 "Capital (Annapolis)")
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Around Broadneck: Slam poetry is a slam dunk at Arnold Elementary
...really wanted it to be good." Slam poetry is a relatively new twist on...form, in which performing the poetry is as important as what is said...popular, it's not the only performance style used at Poetry Slam competitions. Slams have renewed... |
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THEIR WORDS AGAINST OURS ; At the Cantab, teams from Emerson and Hampshire face...
...and Dartmouth College. Slam poetry - competitive spoken-word performance - is thriving in Boston...who runs the Cantab's slam poetry night. Twenty-five...poets interested in performance art started informal... |
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Slam poetry and cultural experience for children.(Report)
...words by using structured models to write poetry (haiku, rhyming schemes, acrostics...memorization of "classic" poems to chant poetry, The introduction of slam performance of poetry into children's lives can salvage a relationship with poetry... |
 "Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)")
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Don't let the door slam on poetry champs.(ENTERTAINMENT)
...annual National Poetry Slam. By conducting an...our team there." Slam is a competition of performance poetry. Poets recite their...enters the national slam. Seventy-five teams...with the money. She lives and works in Rhode... |
 "The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)")
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Poetry in motion.(slam poetry)
Queer poetry slams break new artistic...celebration of our lives. When Alix Olson...America's thriving poetry slam circuit, she usually...OutWrite national queer poetry slam champion and a major...first openly gay performance in a predominantly... |
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