Poetry

Poetry

I. Overview: Students will demonstrate their understanding of the meaning of a poem by explaining how the word choice affects the poem's meaning, setting, and tone.

II. I can: III. Instructional strategies
 * summarize the meaning of a piece of a poetry and cite evidence within the poem to support opinion
 * explain an author's word choice and how it affects meaning.
 * define the setting and tone of a piece of poetry.
 * collaboration through Socratic Seminar (previous experience)
 * VoiceThread
 * Power point created first of chosen poems

IV. Procedures
 * introduce the I can statements and explain expectations for the lesson
 * Read "The Road Not Taken" as class.
 * During discussion students review setting and tone and define its meaing in the poem.
 * share Shmoop video of poem []
 * fish bowl socratic seminar - small group discussion of possible meanings, setting and tone as discussed in video
 * complete observation sheet #1
 * Students then individually analyze "Traveling Through the Dark" by William Stafford
 * Complete assessment sheet
 * Share poems with interpretation and analysis on VoiceThread.

Next steps Exploration of Voicethread, create rubric, find appropriate poems. Implementation in April