Essential Question How does reading poetry provide a chance to explore and appreciate language? Content/Academic Vocabulary Alliteration Author s Purpose Ballad Cinquain Concrete Couplet Epitaph Free Verse Haiku Hyperbole Iambic Pentameter Idiom Imagery Inference Limerick Metaphor Meter Ode Onomatopoeia Parody Personification Point of View Rhyme Rhyme Scheme Simile Soliloquy Sonnet Spoonerism Stanza Stereotypes Style Symbolism Theme Verse Focus Questions What are poetic devices and how are they used to engage readers? How are imagery, symbolism, and meter important to the understanding/appreciation of poetry? How can poems of different eras and genres be compared? Who are some prominent poets and how did they influence the creative flow and process of writing poetry? Why is the presentation of poetry an important skill to be learned? How does a poet utilize life experiences as a foundation for creative and expressive thinking and writing? What can I learn about my own life through reading poetry? Why have specific poets and their poetry stood the test of time?
Student Outcomes Think about what you want the student to know and be able to do. Analyze poetry including distinguishing features of different types of poetry (e.g., ballad, ode, limerick, haiku, free verse, acrostic, concrete poems, couplet, soliloquy, sonnet, cinquain). Identify poetic devices and explain how they affect the experience and understanding of reading poetry. Recite poetry or original poetry for an audience. Identify renowned poets and their works. Analyze how a poem s form or structure (e.g. soliloquy/sonnet) contributes to its meaning. Write an essay that compares and contrasts poetry and a piece of literature, art, or music composition. Write constructed responses that compare and contrast two or more poems, citing evidence from the text. ELA Focus Standards: Key Ideas and Details CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.1 Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story s or drama s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution. Craft and Structure CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.5 Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.7 Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they see and hear when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch. (RL.6.8 not applicable to literature) CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.9 Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics. Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6 8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. Suggested Works: Poetry (Instructional Levels 3-6+) 19 Varieties of Gazelle, Naomi Nye (CC) 39 Clues Book 1: The Maze of Bones, Rick Riordan (CC) A Kick in the Head, Paul Janeczko (CC) Concrete Poetry: Technically, It s Not My Fault, John Grandits (CC) Creatures of Earth, Sea, and Sky, Georgia Heard (CC) Falling Down the Page, Georgia Heard (CC) I Am Phoenix: Poems for Two Voices, Paul Fleischman (CC) Julius Caesar (Timeless Shakespeare), William Shakespeare (CC) Knock at a Star: A Child s Intro to Poerty, Ed Kennedy (CC) Love That Dog, Sharon Creech (CC) Math Talk: Mathematical Ideas in Poems for Two Voices, Theoni Pappas (CC) One Hundred Years of Poetry: For Children, Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse (CC)
Poetry for Young People, Edgar Allen Poe (CC) Riddles from Chapter Five, Riddles in the Dark, The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (CC) This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology, Joyce Sidman (CC) Suggested Individual Poems for Shared Reading A Birthday, Christina Rossetti (CC) Casabianca, Felicia Dorothea Hemans (CC) Casey at the Bat, Ernest Lawrence Thayer (CC) Dreams, Nikki Giovanni (CC) Freedom, William Stafford (CC) How Doth the Little Crocodile, Lewis Carroll (CC) I Hear America Singing, Walt Whitman (CC) I, Too, Sing America, Langston Hughes (CC) I m Nobody! Who Are You?, Emily Dickinson (CC) If, Rudyard Kipling (CC) Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll (CC) Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, Paul Fleischman (CC) Lives: Poems about Famous Americans, Lee Bennett Hopkins and Leslie Staub (CC) Math Talk: Mathematical Ideas in Poems for Two Voices, Theoni Pappas (CC) Past, Present, Future, Emily Bronte (CC) The Eagle, Alfred Lord Tennyson (CC) The Echoing Green, William Blake (CC) The Mouse s Tale, Lewis Carroll (CC) The New Colossus, Emma Lazarus (CC) Time, Valerie Bloom (CC) Tis the Voice of the Lobster, Lewis Carroll (CC) Twelfth Song of Thunder, (Navajo, Traditional) (CC) Tyger, William Blake (CC) Words Free as Confetti, Pat Mora (CC)
Possible Assessments: Formal Assessments- MAP w/ Descartes Special Ed Probes PSSA DRA Summative Assessments- Discussion/Group Participation Self/Teacher Assessment Guided Reading Participation Weekly Response Journals tied to Independent Reading Focus Skills End of Book Tests Q-Matrix Constructed Reponses Story Elements Charting Organizational Constructs Vocabulary (Shared/Guided Reading) Words Their Way Assessments Making Meaning Assessments Writing Pieces using Common Core Writing Standards Oral/Slate Assessment Teacher Created Rubric (Rubistar) Culminating Book Projects