Here is an excellent way to engage your students in the study of poetry; use rap! PBS provides the materials you will need. Students will examine central themes, hip hop culture, political, social and cultural events that may have contributed to the lyrics. And, as always, students can then write and perform their own rap lyrical poem.

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hip hop culture, lyric poem, lyrical poetry, rap, pbs, rap as lyrical poetry

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)