Remembrance Rising through Poetry
Subject
English Language Arts, Art
Grade
6 +
Lesson Overview
In this lesson students will learn the connections between poetry, historical preservation, and war. Students will draw upon their personal experiences and write their own poem. The day will end with an exit question, challenging students to think forth on how we, too, can uplift marginalized stories. This is part of the collaborative art-based lesson guide, Justice for Comfort Women!: War & Imperialism. Download the PDF to see the full lesson.
This project was funded by San Francisco State University’s Comfort Women Research & Creative Scholarship.
Vocabulary
- War
- Historical Erasure
- Sestina
About Collaborator
Lynn Huang (dance – San Francisco): Trained in modern dance, ballet, and Chinese dance, Lynn has performed with Lenora Lee, Cynthia Ling Lee, and Philein Wang, among others in San Francisco, and HT Chen and Dancers, Dance China NY and Ella Ben-Aharon/Sahar Javedani in NYC. She studied at Minzu University Dance Conservatory in Beijing, China on a Fulbright fellowship and graduated magna cum laude from Barnard College of Columbia University. She also teaches GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS®.