Lesson Plan: How Current Events Inspire Art and Action
Grades 6-12
During President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration added countries to existing travel restrictions and invoked the Alien Enemies Act to speed deportations, actions that revived a debate over habeas corpus. That phrase, Latin for “you should have the body,” is a legal right that lets people held by the government ask a judge to review whether their detention is lawful. In 2017, a group of students at Yale Law School helped halt an earlier travel ban under the Trump administration. This lesson examines the ways poetry has been used to comment on or influence social issues.
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