English Assembly - Poetry or rap?

An interactive assembly which is aimed to look at the link between poetry, rap, song lyrics and Shakespeare. Student’s often complain about the ‘point’ in learning poetry or Shakespeare, so I aimed this at encouraging them to see that the music they listen to today is a form of poetry and that words have meaning in what ever form they take.

Students look at a lyric and guess where it is from.

The beginning slides look at famous people who have a degree in English and then potential jobs they could go into with this kind of qualification.