Promoting Inclusivity and Diversity-- MURCIA--Oct 2024

X Congreso Internacional de Enseñanza Bilingue'Looking Back to Look Forward'

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Promoting Inclusivity and Diversity: The Power of Poetry in EFL Lessons

Which is the agenda?

3. Poem by Levi Tafari

2. Poem by Richard Blanco

5. Q&A

4. Poem by Amanda Gorman

1. Introduction

Which are my objectives?

2. You get practical ideas on how to use poems in class.

1. You leave motivated to use more poems in class!

Who are we educating? What are we educating for? What do our students need?

Harari, N. Y. (2018). 21 Lessons for 21st Century. Penguin Dutton.

‘In such a rapid-changing world, who knows what will be relevant in 2050?’ (p. 230)

What is this?

Why literature in the EFL class?

Why NOT literature in the EFL class?

- Language skills improvement: 90.3%- Improvement of sociocultual competence: 69,3%- Self-understanding and identity reflection: 48%

Richard Blanco's 'To my Father in English, Indeed'

5) What emotions did the poem evoke in you, and why?6) In what ways do you show gratitude to the people you love?

4) What would you thank your parents for? Finish your sentence writing: ... so for this-- thanks, indeed!’

Promoting Inclusivity and Diversity

1) In which aspects are you hybrid?

2) What’s your emotional connection with English? 3) Do you prefer listening to music in English or in your own language? Why?

Promoting Inclusivity and Diversity: Focus on Language

1) Contrast life in an island to life in a city.2) Think of adjectives to refer to people who live in the countryside and those who live in a big city. 3) Choose a picture in the countryside. Compare and contrast what it looks like in winter and in summer.

4) Imagine you’re the father in the poem. Write a letter to your son telling him about your life in Cuba-- indeed!5) Imagine you're the father. Write a postcard to your son from your holidays in Cuba. Think of the tone between them (humurous, friendly, nostalgic, etc.)

Levi Tafari's 'Celebr8'

4) In groups discuss which series, films, songs celebrate differences between people/ countries/ communities. 5) 'Becoming is better than being'-- we are constantly changing. What would you like to become?I'd love to become more/ less...

Promoting Inclusivity and Diversity

1) What do you celebrate about the world we live in?

2) Complete this phrase: What makes me different from the rest and I’m very proud about is… 3) Complete this phrase: We don’t play hate when we…

3) Write 5 more lines to add to the poem. 4) Create an anti-discrimination poster to put up on the underground station. 5) Write a glossary of 5 words/ phrases in the poem which were new to you.

1) Write 5 adjectives to describe how people feel when they are discriminated against.2) Write 5 phrases you say to somebody who lived a difficult sitution. For example: that must have been awful!

Promoting Inclusivity and Diversity: Focus on Language

Amanda Gorman's 'Chorus of the Captains'

4) What are your hopes and fears for the future regarding inclusion and diversity?5) Can you share any changes you have made in your ideas regarding inclusion and diversity?

Promoting Inclusivity and Diversity

1) Who are captains of your life?2) In what ways are you a captain for others?3) Who are 'ordinary captains' that society might overlook?

3) Choose 3 pictures that will be used in a campaign to raise awaress about inclusivity and diversity. Write a caption for each one. 4) Write in a tweet format the message the poem conveyed to you. 5) Complete these sentences. The world would be a better place to live in, if people...

Promoting Inclusivity and Diversity: Focus on Language

1) Create an alphabet game which includes words connected to inclusion. For eg.: starts with A agreement that something is right, or that someone should be included in a group.2) Write a description comparing a contrasting a discipline in the Olympic Games and in the Paralympic Games.

Brian Bilston's 'Love in the Age of Google'

Langston Hughes' 'I, too'

Richard Blanco's 'Until we Could'

Benjamin Zephaniah's 'Money'

Amanda Gorman's 'Earthrise'

Kathryn Bevis' 'My Cancer as a Ring-Tailed Lemur'

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Thank you for your attention!

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Coni Barbariol