A Poetic Finale
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Don Leibold,
Loyola Academy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
RESOURCES AND HANDOUTS: BACKGROUND MATERIALS
A profile of the rapper Remedy titled "Jewish Rapper Takes Chai Road Here 'to Spread Word'" can be found on the Web site for Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. http://www.hillel.org/hillel/NewHille.nsf/. Click on "About Hillel," then "Hillel News," "News Archives," and scroll to Dec. 1, 2001.
The lyrics to Remedy's song "Never Again" can be found at http://members.tripod.com/irish_mac/lyricsneveragain.html
RESOURCES AND HANDOUTS: MATERIALS USED
Goldsmith, Aleza. "Jewish Rapper Takes Chai Road Here 'to Spread Word.'" Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. 1 December 2001. 1 April 2003 at http://www.hillel.org/hillel/NewHille.nsf/. Click on "About Hillel," then "Hillel News," "News Archives," and scroll to Dec. 1, 2001.
Remedy. "Never Again." REMEDY LYRICS "Never Again." 1 April 2003 at http://members.tripod.com/irish_mac/lyricsneveragain.html.
Remedy. "Never Again." RZA Presents Wu Tang Killa Bees—The Swarm, Volume One. Priority, 1998.
Note: If you are not able to obtain the actual song for any reason, the lyrics alone could be still be read as an example of contemporary Holocaust poetry.
Handouts
- Lesson Introduction: A Poetic Finale
- Remedy/Holocaust Connections
- Remedy’s Use of Poetic Techniques
- Rubric: A Poetic Finale
- Reflecting on Poetic Finales
