Resource: Human rights through poetry
What makes poetry powerful and how can you express your personal response to human rights? Poets who write about human rights can generate empathy by connecting the reader/listener to experiences of rights being enjoyed, denied or defended.
These lesson plans aim to help students explore the choices that poets make and experiment with their own writing.
Further poetry education resources are available at Words That Burn.
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- Poetry - lesson plan
- Poetry - resource sheet 1 UDHR summary
- Poetry - resource sheet 2 street scene illustration
- Poetry - resource sheet 3 words from Bedecked
- Poetry - resource sheet 4 Bedecked by Victoria Redel
- Poetry - resource sheet 5 selection of poems
- Poetry - resource sheet 6 Amnesty logo
- Poetry - resource sheet 7 Hamra (Red) Night by Saadi Youssef
- Poetry - resource sheet 8 words from The right word
- Poetry - resource sheet 9 The right word by Imtiaz Dharker
- Poetry - resource sheet 10 Push the Week by Jackie Kay
- Poetry - resource sheet 11 Glasgow Snow (for S) by Jackie Kay
- Poetry - resource sheet 12 ideas to get you started