Unit: Poetry

Resources

Lessons

1. Style, Tone, and Mood with Nikki Giovanni

   Students will be able to draw conclusions about style, mood, tone, and meaning of “the drum” and “Choices” based on the author’s word choice and use of figurative language.

    
2. Sound Devices in Poetry

   Students will be able to analyze the use of sound devices in a poem in order to explain how these sound devices contribute to the meaning of a poem.

    
3. Musical Poetry

   Students will be able to interpret the meaning of appropriate music lyrics and identify and explain various elements of poetry used in the song.

    
4. What it Means to be a Scholar

   SWBAT review and correctly use various types and elements of poetry in order to write their “What it Means to be a Scholar” poem.
   
   

    
5. Paul Rever's Ride/Paraphrasing (narrative poem)

   SWBAT analyze the effects of sound, figurative language, and graphics to determine the meaning of “Paul Revere’s Ride.”

    
6. Paul Revere's Ride/fig. language

   SWBAT draw conclusions about style, mood, tone, and meaning of poetry based on the author’s word choice and use of figurative language.

    
7. What does poetry SOUND like?

   SWBAT draw conclusions about style, mood, and tone in by listening and reading various poems from the book “Hip Hop Speaks to Children”.

    
8. I see... & I feel...

   SWBAT recognize how an author's use of language creates images and feelings by sketching what they see and jotting down how they feel.