Find your voice

Learn about, compose and perform a slam poem

Student debating and public speaking resource developed by The Arts Unit

Years 7 to 10 public speaking

Your students will:

• explore the art of spoken word poetry

• analyse examples of slam poetry

• compose a spoken word poem

• rehearse and perform their poem.

English K-10 Syllabus

Stage 4

• EN4-1A: responds to and composes texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis, imaginative expression and pleasure.

• EN4-3B: uses and describes language forms, features and structures of texts appropriate to a range of purposes, audiences and contexts.

• EN4-4B: makes effective language choices to creatively shape meaning with accuracy, clarity and coherence.

• EN4-5C: thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information, ideas and arguments to respond to and compose texts.

Stage 5

• EN5-3B: selects and uses language forms, features and structures of texts appropriate to a range of purposes, audiences and contexts, describing and explaining their effects on meaning.

• EN5-4B: effectively transfers knowledge, skills and understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts.

• EN5-5C: thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and increasingly complex ideas and arguments to respond to and compose texts in a range of contexts.

• EN5-7D: understands and evaluates the diverse ways texts can represent personal and public worlds.

Collection of student work 

• Google Form: create a Google form with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create. Email this form to your students with the Creative Class link and all your student responses will be combined in a Google sheet.

• Google Classroom Assignment: create an assignment or a quiz in your Google Classroom with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create.  

• MS Teams: create a quiz or assignment in your class team drive where students can submit responses and upload any files they create. 

• Email: ask your students to email you any responses and files they create.

• Flipgrid: a website that allows teachers to create 'grids' to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is a message board where teachers can pose questions called 'topics'. Students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display. 

• Jamboard: an interactive whiteboard which can be used for class feedback.

For further support on how to create these resources

• Get started with Google Forms

• Create a Google Classroom Assignment

• Assign quizzes to students  through Microsoft Teams 

• Create an assignment in Microsoft Teams

• Educators – getting started with Flipgrid

• Get started with Jamboard