Poetry enables the reader to appreciate the sound and imagery of language. Poetry can take many forms and can be interpreted in many ways.

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1 Mrs. Staab English 135 Periods 2 & 3 Lesson Plans Week of 12/05/ /09/2011 Understanding Poetry enables the reader to appreciate the sound and imagery of language. Poetry can take many forms and can be interpreted in many ways. Unit Essential Question: How do poets express self, identity and other themes in their work? How can I express myself through poetry do I dare?? Standards: CRS English WCH 302 B discuss and model tone and style TOB 201 A read writers of various genres and imitate their work CRS Reading MOW 301 use context to understand basic figurative language MID 301 A analyze techniques used by the author of a text to reveal or conceal his or her point of view Objectives: 1) I will write many simply organized short texts of various genres 2) I will participate actively in class discussions 3) I will write poetry in a variety of forms utilizing the techniques of poets 4) I will identify the basic elements of poetry 5) I will analyze a poem for literary devices including instances of figurative language

2 Activities: Monday, December 5, ) Bellringer- View & reflect " Brant Bauer Frick what is the theme? " Students write for seven minutes and share with their clock buddies (9 o'clock buddies) 2) Review video clip from Of Mice and Men court proceedings and as a class discuss the learning outcome 3) Introduction to poetry unit- anticipation guide; students complete anticipation guide and briefly share their answers with the class 4) Poetry splash- small groups receive several short poems and read independently while annotating using symbols; * This word or line is cool,! This is something important? I don t get it: I don t understand this line or phrase 5) Students share their thinking about their personal interpretation and responses to the poems within their groups Tuesday, December 6, ) Bellringer- 'Picture prompt Help' Students write for seven minutes and share with their clock buddies (11 o'clock buddies) 2) Continue poetry splash from yesterday-small groups select one poem from yesterday's poetry handout that they all feel strongly about. As a group they will complete the What I Read - What I Think What I Wonder graphic organizer about the poem. 3) Share/discuss comparisons as a class 4) Exit Slip: Each student writes a definition of poetry. Wednesday, December 7, ) Bellringer- "first 3 lines poetry " Students write for seven minutes and share with their clock buddies (12 o'clock buddies) 2) Introduce elements of poetry ppt- students take notes 3) Read aloud "Hanging Fire" by Audrey Lorde while students annotate. As a class discuss style/form of poetry. 4) Individual students reread poem annotating using specific guidelines and then share their responses within their groups. 5) Students write a poem in free verse that begins with the same lines of the poem I am fourteen" but use their actual age. Thursday, December 8, ) Bellringer- "make of a list of " Students write for seven minutes and share with their clock buddies (2 o'clock buddies) 2) Poetic devices- small groups practice finding poetic devices in song lyrics 3) Exit slip- metaphor/simile

3 Friday, December 9, ) Bellringer- "paralyze" Students write for seven minutes and share with their clock buddies (4 o'clock buddies) 2) Whole class share/review yesterday's lesson on poetic devices 3) Individual students write a poem with at least five poetic devices 4) Volunteers share poems with whole class 5) Exit slip- reflection/evaluation 6) Homework- Two school appropriate song lyrics with poetic device analysis Resources and Materials: Computer LCD Projector Handouts Assessment: Student participation Student self evaluation Exit slips Homework: Two song lyrics with poetic device analysis ( due Monday Dec. 12)

4 Poetry Anticipation Guide Name Date Period Directions: Place the letter A or D to indicate whether you Agree or Disagree with the statements below. 1. The true meaning of a poem can only be understood by the person who wrote it. 2. Poems look different from other types of writing. 3. Poems are always about emotions. 4. Poems always rhyme. 5. Poems are boring. 6. A poem cannot be fun or funny. 7. No poem can ever be completely understood. 8. The sound of words is important in poetry. 9. Every poem uses symbols. 10. Line breaks and stanzas tell you how to read a poem. 11. Each poem has its own rhythm. 12. A good poem makes you feel something. 13. Poems are quick and easy to write. 14. Poems are hard to understand/figure out. 15. Poems should use standard English/conventions of grammar.

5 Name Date Period Poetry Handout Eating Poetry Mark Strand Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry. The librarian does not believe what she sees. Her eyes are sad and she walks with her hands in her dress. The poems are gone. The light is dim. The dogs are on the basement stairs and coming up. Their eyeballs roll, their blond legs burn like brush. The poor librarian begins to stamp her feet and weep. She does not understand. When I get on my knees and lick her hand, she screams. I am a new man, I snarl at her and bark, I romp with joy in the bookish dark I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide Introduction to Poetry Billy Collins or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means. Exit Rita Dove Just when hope withers, the visa is granted. The door opens to a street like in the movies, clean of people, of cats; except it is your street you are leaving. A visa has been granted, "provisionally"-a fretful word. The windows you have closed behind you are turning pink, doing what they do every dawn. Here it's gray. The door to the taxicab waits. This suitcase, the saddest object in the world. Well, the world's open. And now through the windshield the sky begins to blush as you did when your mother told you what it took to be a woman in this life Lines Martha Collins Draw a line. Write a line. There. Stay in line, hold the line, a glance between the lines is fine but don't turn corners, cross, cut in, go over or out, between two points of no return's a line of flight, between two points of view's a line of vision. But a line of thought is rarely straight, an open line's no party line, however fine your point. A line of fire communicates, but drop your weapons and drop your line, consider the shortest distance from x to y, let x be me, let y be you.

6 The Crystal Gazer Sarah Teasdale I shall gather myself into myself again, I shall take my scattered selves and make them one. I shall fuse them into a polished crystal ball Where I can see the moon and the flashing sun I Shall sit like a sibyl, hour after hour intent. Watching the future come and the present go - And the little shifting pictures of people rushing In tiny self-importance to and fro. Did I Miss Anything? Tom Wayman Nothing. When we realized you weren t here we sat with our hands folded on our desks in silence, for the full two hours Everything. I gave an exam worth 40 percent of the grade for this term and assigned some reading due today on which I m about to hand out a quiz worth 50 percent Nothing. None of the content of this course has value or meaning Take as many days off as you like: any activities we undertake as a class I assure you will not matter either to you or me and are without purpose Everything. A few minutes after we began last time a shaft of light suddenly descended and an angel or other heavenly being appeared and revealed to us what each woman or man must do to attain divine wisdom in this life and the hereafter This is the last time the class will meet before we disperse to bring the good news to all people on earth. Nothing. When you are not present how could something significant occur? Everything. Contained in this classroom is a microcosm of human experience assembled for you to query and examine and ponder This is not the only place such an opportunity has been gathered but it was one place And you weren t here Alone Maya Angelou Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone I came up with one thing And I don't believe I'm wrong That nobody, But nobody Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody There are some millionaires With money they can't use Their wives run round like banshees Their children sing the blues They've got expensive doctors To cure their hearts of stone. But nobody No, nobody Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Now if you listen closely I'll tell you what I know Storm clouds are gathering The wind is gonna blow The race of man is suffering And I can hear the moan, 'Cause nobody, But nobody Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody The Bat Theodore Roethke By day the bat is cousin to the mouse. He likes the attic of an aging house. His fingers make a hat about his head. His pulse beat is so slow we think him dead. He loops in crazy figures half the night Among the trees that face the corner light. But when he brushes up against a screen, We are afraid of what our eyes have seen: For something is amiss or out of place When mice with wings can wear a human face.

7 What I Read, What I Think, What I Wonder Name Date Period What I Read What I Think What I Wonder

8 Name Date Period Hanging Fire Audre Lorde I am fourteen and my skin has betrayed me the boy I cannot live without still sucks his thumb in secret how come my knees are always so ashy what if I die before the morning comes and momma's in the bedroom with the door closed. I have to learn how to dance in time for the next party my room is too small for me suppose I de before graduation they will sing sad melodies but finally tell the truth about me There is nothing I want to do and too much that has to be done and momma's in the bedroom with the door closed. Nobody even stops to think about my side of it I should have been on Math Team my marks were better than his why do I have to be the one wearing braces I have nothing to wear tomorrow will I live long enough to grow up and momma's in the bedroom with the door closed.

9 Name Date Period Poetic Devices Directions: As you listen to the song find examples of the following poetic techniques Alliteration repetition of an initial sound in two or more words of a phrase (e.g., Billy builds big houses with beige bricks.) Assonance partial rhyme created by a shared vowel sound (e.g., The napping cat had many bad habits.) Metaphor a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as if it were another (e.g., Your sister is a pig! That s her fourth hamburger!) Rhyme correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds) (e.g., Sitting by the sea I thought about you and me.) Simile comparison of one thing with another, using as or like (e.g., She ll probably win tomorrow s race. She runs like a gazelle.) Onomatopoeia use of words whose sound suggests the sense (e.g., buzz or hiss) Personification Giving humanistic thoughts and feeling to inanimate objects. Assonance The repetition of vowel sounds of neighboring words (e.g. talking and walking hours on end) Hyperbole A deliberate exaggeration ( e.g. He could eat a horse) Irony Saying the opposite of what is actually meant (e.g. The directions were clear as mud)

10 Name Date Period Poetry Exit Ticket FRIENDS A friend is like a mystery still to be discovered wanting to be figured out A friend is a book always very clever waiting to be read and understood How do poets say things in special ways in their poetry? Identify and copy the metaphor from the poem above. Why does the author use this metaphor? Identify and copy the simile from the poem above. Why does the author use this simile?

11 Name Date Period Poetic Devices Write a poem that uses at least 5 poetic devices that we ve discussed in this unit. The poem must be at least 8 lines long for full credit. Circle which poetic devices you used in your poem. End rhyme Imagery Hyperbole Internal rhyme Simile Personification Repetition Metaphor Alliteration