{"id":24125,"date":"2023-07-14T21:12:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T21:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/poem-song-rap-that-makes-a-point-teaches-a-lesson-about-a-certain-social-mental-health-environmental-or-other-serious-real-life-issue\/"},"modified":"2023-07-14T21:12:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T21:12:05","slug":"poem-song-rap-that-makes-a-point-teaches-a-lesson-about-a-certain-social-mental-health-environmental-or-other-serious-real-life-issue","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/poem-song-rap-that-makes-a-point-teaches-a-lesson-about-a-certain-social-mental-health-environmental-or-other-serious-real-life-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"poem\/song\/rap that makes a point (teaches a lesson) about a certain social, mental health, environmental, or other serious real-life issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.295; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Assignment Purpose:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Students will use their reading, writing, and critical thinking skills as they analyze how the figurative language in a poem\/song\/rap is used to reach an audience and make a point (teach a lesson) about a specific social, mental health, environmental, or other serious real-life issue.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Assignment Steps:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">1. Conduct research and locate at least four sources:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">A poem\/song\/rap that makes a point (teaches a lesson) about a certain social, mental health, environmental, or other serious real-life issue; the poem\/song\/rap must have irony and one other type of figurative language.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Two online sources (the 1st source must be an online reading; the 2<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 0.6em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">nd <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">source can be an online reading OR a video). (Students have the option of using the sources on Brightspace.)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">An image that pertains to one of the main ideas in the poem\/song\/rap&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Note: To make sure your sources are suitable for a college-level academic assignment, please apply the <\/span><a style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">CRAP Test&nbsp; &nbsp; (https:\/\/libguides.csu.edu.au\/nut201\/evaluate\/CRAPtest)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">2. Look through the Sample Planning. (See the last page of this handout.)&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">3. Type Your Planning.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">4. Set up your document in APA format.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">5. Write an essay that meets the requirements on this essay handout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">6. Take the image that you found (that represents one of the main ideas explored in your poem\/song\/rap) and paste it near your body paragraph D.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">7. Add an APA-formatted Reference page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Assignment Requirements:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Title Page&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Introduction Paragraph:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> Begin your paragraph with an introductory device. For this essay, the introductory device must be a quote from a relevant and informative online reading. Be sure to set up the quote with a few of your own words, add quotation marks and an in-text citation, and also include some quote analysis. End the introduction paragraph with a thesis statement that mentions the name and author of the poem\/song\/rap, audience, figurative language, and theme.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Body Paragraph A<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">: Start this paragraph with a topic sentence that includes a transition and that mentions the name of the poem\/song\/rap and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">intended audience<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">. Then add supporting sentences. Your supporting sentences should include a relevant quote from one of your online sources, an in-text citation, and some quote and audience analysis. End with a closing sentence that includes a transition and that mentions the main idea of the paragraph.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Body Paragraph B<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">: Start this paragraph with a topic sentence that includes a transition and that mentions the name of the poem\/song\/rap and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">irony<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">. Then add supporting sentences. Your supporting sentences should include a relevant quote from one of your online sources, an in-text citation, and some quote and irony analysis. End with a closing sentence that includes a transition and that mentions the main idea of the paragraph.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Body Paragraph C<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">: Do the same thing as body paragraph B but instead focus on another type of figurative language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Body Paragraph D<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">: Find an image that represents at least one of the main ideas explored in your poem\/song\/rap. Then write a visual analysis paragraph. Start this paragraph with a topic sentence that includes a transition and that mentions the name of the poem\/song\/rap and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">visual representation <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">(or a synonym). Then add supporting sentences. Your supporting sentences should include a relevant visual analysis quote from one of your online sources. Your supporting sentences should also include an in-text citation and some quote and visual analysis. End with a closing sentence that includes a transition and that mentions the main idea of the paragraph.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Conclusion Paragraph: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Begin your paragraph with a sentence that has a transition. (Do not use <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">In conclusion<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">.) Add a concluding device. For this essay, the concluding device must be a quote from a relevant and informative online reading. Be sure to set up the quote with a few of your own words, add quotation marks and an in-text citation, and also include some quote analysis.&nbsp; Then summarize the main ideas of the essay while paying special attention to the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">theme<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> of the poem\/song\/rap.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Image &amp; Link<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Reference Page<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 6pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 6pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Assignment Reminders:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Submission: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Turn in your assignment via the Brightspace Assignment folder on _______.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">4 Sources: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">1<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">poem\/song\/rap + 2 online sources + 1 image (All sources must pass the CRAP Test.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Format:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> Use APA 7 format for the entire assignment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Title:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> Include an original title (not <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Essay #1 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">or<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> English Essay<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Thesis: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Compose a thesis statement in response to the assignment requirements\/prompt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Length:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> Make sure your essay is at least 800 words (not including the title page and reference page).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Tone:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> The tone of this essay should be informative and reflective.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Audience:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> Your audience is your instructor and other members of the class, representative of an adult, educated, academic audience. However, for clarity purposes, you will still need to spend some time summarizing key ideas, defining any terms that might be unfamiliar, and incorporating short quotes\/paraphrases to help your reader get a sense of the argument.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\t<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Sample Planning<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Thesis Statement:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> In her song Nightmare, Halsey reaches out to survivors of domestic violence by using irony and metaphor, urging them to be strong and refuse to be silenced.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Topic Sentence A:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> Because Halsey&#8217;s Nightmare song touches on the issue of domestic violence, it is no surprise that<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">one intended audience is a primarily female fanbase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Topic Sentence B:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> Interestingly, this talented singer and songwriter has found a way to incorporate irony into the<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Nightmare song and use it as a tool to explore the controversial topic of domestic violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Topic Sentence C:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> In Nightmare, metaphors are also used to grab the listeners\u2019 attention and get them to take some<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">time to really think about this troubling and pervasive issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Topic Sentence D:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> One image that encapsulates some of the major themes in this song can be found on the _______ website.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assignment Purpose: Students will use their reading, writing, and critical thinking skills as they analyze how the figurative language in a poem\/song\/rap is used to reach an audience and make a point (teach a lesson) about a specific social, mental health, environmental, or other serious real-life issue.&nbsp; Assignment Steps: 1. 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