Poetry
- Katherine Victoria Vananderland
- Jul 8, 2020
- 2 min read
Poetry Unit
Lesson Plan #67
Teacher: Miss Katherine Victoria VanAnderland
Date: 06/25/2020
Overview & Purpose
This unit introduces poetry forms and craft elements while students explore poetry about everyday topics or themes. Students begin by discussing their varying definitions of poetry, brainstorming all the different types of poems they know, and briefly discussing elements of poetry. In each subsequent session, students are introduced to one form of poetry. This lesson uses concrete/shape, haiku, cinquain, two-voice, and free-form poetry, but the lesson can be easily adapted for any poetic form. Students read examples, define the form, and find additional examples in poetry books. They create their own poetry collection by adding examples, definitions, and their own poems to a writer's notebook. In the final session, students go back through the poems they have collected, looking for examples of five elements of poetry.
Education Standards
Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
Students apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions (e.g., spelling and punctuation), media techniques, figurative language, and genre to create, critique, and discuss print and nonprint texts.
Objectives
Know all the different types of poetry
Be able to reproduce the poetry
Use the poetry checklist to compose
Materials Needed
Handouts of poems used for instruction or in computer files to project
General classroom supplies (chalkboard, chart paper, markers, etc)
Student writing notebooks and folders
Blank composition books
A computer with Internet access with LCD projector
A wide variety of poetry books to be used for instruction and student exploration
Examples of themed poetry collections or anthologies
If students will be given the opportunity to create their own poems using student interactives or mobile apps, then also computers with Internet access or tablets will be needed. Also, students will use a printer to publish their poems to add to their poetry collections.
Verification
Steps to check for student understanding
Use as many materials to keep poetry creative
Understand each type of poem
Write 5 poems of your favorite type
Activity
Describe activity that will reinforce the lesson
In "Language and Literacy: The Poetry Connection," Dorothy S. Strickland and Michael R. Strickland explain that immersion in poetry provides a positive experience for students that provides scaffolding for later poetry exploration and experimentation. By reading a variety of poems in read alouds, independent reading, and group sharing, students begin to play with poetic ideas and forms naturally. The article explains that "many teachers still argue that there is value in highlighting certain literary devices or aspects of a form as one way of knowing and appreciating literature. When students discuss various characteristics of a form, it helps inform their own writing and familiarizes them with common terminology needed to talk about language, literature, and literacy. Familiarity with the structure and terminology of literacy facilitates students' abilities to communicate with others about what they know. In addition, such familiarity can deepen students' personal responses and interpretations of literature" (201). In this lesson plan, students explore a wide range of poetic forms and devices in order to gain the kind of grounding understanding of poetic elements that Strickland and Strickland recommend.
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