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Unit Goals Students are to produce three poems and complete their portfolio To engage students in conversation about subversive-ness, obscurity, and hatred To discover why others exclude To get students to look at the world in a way that is discouraged by society To get students to look at the world from a morally questionable lens To encourage questioning To cover liminal figures that may not have been covered in other units Encourage empathy

II. The Plan: Week 13 T Creative Reflection Due Discussion- What does it mean to be subversive? Writing Exercise #91 Critique Th Un-Popular Culture Poem Due Characterizations Discussion Critique Week 14 T Discuss obscurity Discuss what was found while getting lost Writing Exercise #82 Critique Th Individual Conferences The Obscure Poem Due Critique Week 15 T Individual Conferences Creative Reflection Due Critique Th Portfolio Due Haters Poem Due Poetry Reading Week 13

Write a characterization of subversion Read excerpts from What Are You Doing Here? Un-pop culture poem

Watch Cheese-rolling video Write a response to video Get lost in the internet

Obscure poem due

How did I see reflective creative piece

Portfolio Due Haters Poem Due in Portfolio

Write a characterization of subversion

T Th Creative Reflection Due Discussion- What does it mean to be subversive? Writing Exercise #91 Critique

Read excerpts from What Are You Doing Here? Un-pop culture poem

Un-Popular Culture Poem Due Characterizations Discussion Critique Week 14 T Discuss obscurity Discuss what was found while getting lost Writing Exercise #82 Critique Th Individual Conferences The Obscure Poem Due Critique Week 15 T Individual Conferences Creative Reflection Due Critique III.

Watch Cheese-rolling video Write a response to video Get lost in the internet

Obscure poem due

How did I see reflective creative piece

Portfolio Due Haters Poem Due in Portfolio

Evaluation of Unit I will evaluate my performance in this unit via student engagement in writing exercises and discussion. I will evaluate my students performance in the unit by their response to videos and readings, the ideas expressed in the reading responses and other writings, class participation, and their performance within their poems. I will also evaluate this unit, this course, and the students performance during individual conferences.