University of North Alabama Lesson Plan Template

Lesson Phrasing Poetry Grade: 8th

Title: Date: TBD
CCRS Standard(s):
16. Examine the use of conventions of standard English grammar and usage in writing.
a. Identify gerunds, participles, infinitives, and clauses.

Individual Education Plan/504 Goal(s) and Benchmarks specific to this lesson (as directly indicated on
the plan):

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Strategies
Daily Lesson By the end of this lesson, students will be able to examine the use of standard
Objective(s) English grammar to employ prepositions, participles, absolute phrases, infinitives,
Objectives are and clauses to construct poetry.
measurable and
aligned with the
standard.

Introduction to Students will briefly review the different types of phrases to re-familiarize themselves
Lesson/ with their function and elements. Students will first be given the opportunity to define
Activating Thinking a preposition, participle, absolute phrase and an infinitive. After, the definitions will
***Use knowledge of be given to the students. A handout with the definitions will additionally be given to
students’ academic, the students for future reference.
social, and cultural
characteristics to meet
diverse needs.

Body of Review (5 min). Students will review and discuss the different types of phrases and
Lesson/Teaching the building blocks that compose each. Briefly go through each phrase, giving
Strategies students examples to reference.
Body of Lesson/
Teaching Strategies Composing Poems using Phrases (35 min). Go through each slide and have
students follow the template provided. Give students 10 minutes to write each poem.
Before moving on to the next slide/template.

Peer Review (10 min). Ask students to swap all 3 poems with a partner to check for
any errors or misuse of phrases. Not only will this ensure the correct phrases were
used before students turn in their poems, the peer review will also give students
further practice with identifying phrases.

Share (10 min).

Once students have reviewed each other's poems, ask students to share their
strongest poem under the document camera.
Materials/Technology Google Slides
Paper
Pencil/Pen
Closure/ Have students share and reflect on what they wrote. Ask students, after completing
Summarizing the activity, if they have a better understanding of how different phrases function in
Strategies: texts.
Assessment/ Poems: Students will turn in the poems they wrote and will be evaluated based on
Evaluation the correct usage of the phrases.

Reflection By having students compose poems through phrases, not only are they reviewing
the phrase types, but they are becoming more familiar with how phrases operate in
sentences, specifically how they can add meaning, through directly interacting with
phrases and generating their own.