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Expressive Slam Poetry: Personal Stories and Struggles

Slam Poetry is a competitive form of poetry where individuals perform without props, costumes, or music. It is emotionally intense and sincere, allowing poets to express personal stories and struggles. Judges score performances based on their liking, making it a powerful form of self-expression.

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Expressive Slam Poetry: Personal Stories and Struggles

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  1. Slam Poetry

  2. What is Slam Poetry? Slam Poetry is a type of competition where people read their poems without props, costumes, or music. After performing, they receive scores (0-10) from 5 randomly selected judges. The judges can be anyone: they don't even need to be poets! Scores are awarded based on how much each judge likes a poem. A type of poetry expressing a person’s personal story and/or struggle usually in an intensely emotional style. Very powerful, sincere, and moving.

  3. What were the key words there?? • Competition • Expression • Emotional • Personal • Spoken/Performed

  4. A Slam Poem About Bacon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSVO5VloDlc

  5. Elementary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-cYjUCudbA

  6. What was different about that poem compared to the poems we did yesterday? Turn to a partner and talk about this question for 1 minute. Come up with a 7-word sentence as your answer and write it on the board. Example: “He used hand gestures to illustrate words”

  7. Look it up, Kid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSt9BBxhJ4k

  8. Seriously Awesome. What we’re going to do now: We’re going to write a slam poem as a class. On your slip of paper, Choose ONE of these sentences and fill in the blanks: I am _________ _____________ _________. ___________ ___________ _________ is what I believe. My home _________ __________ ____________. _________ ___________ ____________ scares me. I write _______ _________ __________.

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