Life After The Oasis - Writing Poetry to Explore the Human Experience

In this lesson, students will consider poetry, and how this form of writing explores our human experience. They will watch a short clip from Life After The Oasis that features Haley, who writes poetry to better understand her own life experiences, OR Owen who writes music lyrics. Students will view a TED-Ed video that digs deeper into poetry as a writing form, then read through a list of poetic devices. They will apply their understanding by viewing a spoken word poem and identifying its poetic devices. They will then plan, draft and write their own poem, before reflecting on the lesson by responding verbally to a set question.