Hip-hop Poetry And The Classics

Our goal is to make the academic study of poetry accessible, relevant, comprehensible and enjoyable to students in our contemporary, multicultural classrooms.
Our methodology is to analyze the poetry of Hip-Hop and compare its motifs, themes, and general poetic devices (such as alliteration, rhyme scheme, figurative language, etc. ...) to the "classic" poems traditionally studied (by writers such as Frost, Dickinson, Keats, etc. ...) in order to teach the core elements of the poetic craft in an appealing, relevant, thorough and accessible manner.

Alliteration	p. 6
Allusion	p. 8
Ain't I a woman?	p. 8
For women	p. 12
Epitaph	p. 16
Figurative language	p. 18
Haiku	p. 19
Hyperbole	p. 20
Imagery	p. 22
Harlem : a dream, deferred	p. 22
Juicy	p. 25
Irony	p. 29
The fish	p. 29
Meaning	p. 32
Do not go gentle into that good night	p. 32
Me against the world	p. 35
Metaphors	p. 40
The weaver	p. 40
Respiration	p. 43
Mood	p. 47
We real cool	p. 47
A roller skating jam	p. 50
Follow me	p. 50
Onomatopoeia	p. 54
The Congo	p. 54
Datskat	p. 57
Pattern	p. 61
If	p. 61
How many	p. 65
Personification	p. 69
Lodged	p. 69
Mirror	p. 72
I Am Music	p. 72
Rhyme schemes	p. 77
Simile	p. 79
Sonnets	p. 81
Another sonnet for Stephan	p. 81
Symbolism	p. 88
Sympathy	p. 88
Three strikes you in	p. 92
Tone	p. 96
The night has a thousand eyes	p. 96
Pain in full	p. 99
Reading strategies	p. 104
Jabberwocky	p. 104
Author's choice - classic
The tide rises, the tide falls	p. 108
Author's choice - hip-hop	p. 111
Fight the power	p. 111
Otha Fish	p. 114
Lose yourself	p. 117
Recital exercises	p. 120
Love's philosophy	p. 121
Activities	p. 126
AP exam success	p. 135
Gifted and talented education	p. 141
English language learners	p. 143
Extended writing activities	p. 144
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