Class: ELA 10 Focus: Intro to Poetry

Goals/Key questions (remove the italics with the required information)

Goals: To have a basic understanding of poetry

GLOs/SLOs:
GLO 1: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings and experiences
1.1 Discover Possibilities
1.1.2 Experiment with language, image and structure
1.2 Extend awareness
1.2.1 Consider new perspectives
1.2.2 Express preferences and expand interests
GLO 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print and other
media texts
2.1 Construct meaning from text and context
2.1.1 Discern and analyze context
2.1.2 Understand and interpret content
2.2 Understand and appreciate textual forms, elements and techniques
2.2.1 Relate form, structure and medium to purpose, audience and content
2.2.2 Relate elements, devices and techniques to created effects
2.3 Respond to a variety of print and nonprint texts
2.3.2 Evaluate the verisimilitude, appropriateness and significance of print and nonprint texts
2.3.3 Appreciate the effectiveness and artistry of print and nonprint texts
GLO 4: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication
4.1 Develop and present a variety of print and nonprint texts
4.1.2 Consider and address form, structure and medium
4.1.3 Develop content
4.1.4 Use production, publication and presentation strategies and technologies consistent with content
Pre lesson Considerations
Lesson overview of main ideas to be learned and prelearning required:
N/A

Materials needed/preset up required/logistical considerations needed (seating arrangement):

Intro to Poetry PowerPoint

Scrap magazines

Construction paper

Computers

Content:
What is the teacher doing? What are the students doing?

Before class begins, set up Intro to Poetry PowerPoint

Introduction 1) Begin by introducing poetry unit by explaining we 1) Students will listen to poetry introduction
will be spending the next 3 days doing poetry
Time: 30 min 2) Explain today we will be going over what we already
know about poetry/poets
3) Start Intro to Poetry ppt while asking students for
answers before revealing them on projector 2) Students will raise hands to provide answers to
a. What is poetry? PowerPoint question prompts
b. What makes a poem?
c. Who are some famous poets?
d. What are some types of poetry?
Transition 1) Close PowerPoint
considerations
1) Explain activity instructions 1) Students will choose 1 of 2 options for poetry activity
Activity 1 a. Students will create their own found poem
by choosing one of the following options:
Time: 50 min i. Use the provided magazines and
 construction paper to cut out
words/phrases/passages to create a
poem
ii. Print a passage from a book or 2) Students will complete either 1 or 2 found poems
speech to either cut or cross out to
create a poem. If you choose this
option, you must print 2 different
passages to create 2 poems
b. Instruct students to work individually
c. Inform them they will have an opportunity
to share their poems with class
d. Students poems will also be submitted
2) When students have finished, ask if anyone wishes
to share their poems 3) Once theyve finished, those who wish may volunteer
3) Collect finished poems to share their poems
4) Students will submit finished poems to teacher
Transition 1) Instruct students to log off computers and clean up 1) Students will log off computers and clean up any
considerations paper from cutting paper mess from cutting
1) Inform students we will be doing poetry next 3 days 1) Students will listen to details of poetry unit overview
leading into Mrs. Vanhams poetry unit
Conclusion 2) They will be exploring forms of poetry and 2) They will know what is expected of them at the end of
experimenting with writing their own poems unit by the end of this class
Time: 5 min

Assessment: Formative: found poetry assignment