Human beings, be it through need or desire, have always been migrants, wanderers, wonderers. Where people have journeyed they have taken with them their music and their songs and their poetry. Music and poetry have a very close and thrilling relationship. Poetry, after all, is essentially thought and feeling dancing together to the music of words. Therefore, it is not surprising that poets and musicians have always inspired each other. Each of the poets has their own experience of migration and their poems reflect the differences as well as the similarities of their experience. Students will start from th meaning of "poetry" and "migration" and then they will look for the reason of this phenomenon during the centuries.

• Subjects: Citizenship, Cross Curricular, Foreign Languages, Geography, History, Informatics / ICT, Language and Literature, Music, Religion
• Languages: EN - IT
• Pupil's age: 13 - 14
• Tools to be used: Chat, e-mail, Forum, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Video conference, Virtual learning environment (communities, virtual classes, ...), Web publishing
• Aims: -to Express feelings related to words -Experiment with words to create mental pictures -Poetry can be used across disciplines to engage readers... read more-to Express feelings related to words -Experiment with words to create mental pictures -Poetry can be used across disciplines to engage readers and extend content area studies. -Through the use of poetry, students are encouraged to put forth multiple interpretations, which must be supported by evidence from the text. -Identify connections between an author's work and the sociohistorical context in which it was written hide
• Work process: -Initiate a class discussion about how social context has a dramatic impact on one's goals and choices -Ask students to brainstorm... read more-Initiate a class discussion about how social context has a dramatic impact on one's goals and choices -Ask students to brainstorm examples of how the times in which a writer lives can impact his or her writing. -explore and read some of the poems aloud, ask students to share their responses and thoughts. hide
• Expected results: -Create an online visual representation of one poem's meaning supported by examples from research -Orally present the poem and its relevant... read more-Create an online visual representation of one poem's meaning supported by examples from research -Orally present the poem and its relevant historical connections -Compose an original poem that reflects a personal view on a current social issue - A better relationship hide

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