Poetry 4.2

Poetry 4.2

DO NOW: Where was your poet born?  When?

Objectives:

• use technology to research the life of a poet
• annotate poems and cite correctly

Agenda:

1. do now
2. PURPLE: Vocab 13
3. PURPLE: Discuss ORB
4. Review your biography articles as a group. Decide what the most important parts are and make sure they are bullet points in the shared google doc.
5. Research your poet’s poetry.  Find FIVE POEMS and copy and paste them into your google doc (include poem titles and URL addresses!). Read/annotate ALL FIVE-- include a summary sentence AND tone word.
6. Review imitation poem assignment
7. Summarizer

HW: Annotate All five poems for THURSDAY
Poetry Quiz on FRIDAY
Imitation poem due MONDAY

Poetry 4.1

Do Now: Sit with your poetry group member(s)

Objectives:

• understand the requirements of the poetry project
• read the poet descriptions and at least two poems by at least five different poets.

Agenda:

1. Do now

2. Poetry Quiz Review Sheet (5 minutes)

3. Introduce the poetry project: Download "Poetry Project" handout

4 . Selection: pick a poet out of a bag!
5. Create a google doc and share with all members of group-- name the doc "Poetry Project [Poet name]

5. Find ONE biography per member of your group

HW:Annotate biography. Share important biographical information in the shared google document. Poetry terms quiz on FRIDAY

Poetry Thursday

do now: study for vocab for 5 minutes

Objectives:

• demonstrate mastery of vocabulary words
• work effectively as a group to create a poem
• use the drafting process to draft a poem around a central image/metaphor
  

Agenda:

1. do now

2. Vocab quiz

3. Poetry groups: get into your assigned groups and pick a topic

4. Round robin poetry writing:

• each member write the topic on top of a sheet of paper
• each member has 2 minutes to draft one line of a poem
• rotate the paper to your right
• continue your peer's poem by writing a second line
• (continue)

5. Individual: draft poem # 3 in packet

6. summarizer

HW: finish "The Fish" graphic organizer for FRIDAY

Poetry 3.4

Poetry 3.4

Do now: Write a 3 line poem about winter. Include tactile imagery

Objectives:

• Peer edit poems
• Read and annotate a conceit poem
• Identify central theme of conceit poem

Agenda:

1. Do now
2. PINK: Define week 12 vocab words
3. Read “The Fish” (poetry packet page 20)
4. Table groups: answer discussion questions
5. Review Graphic Organizer for Conceit Poems
6. Individual: complete chart
7. Summarizer

HW: Vocab quiz on THURSDAY. Finish chart for FRIDAY-- you will draft the paragraph in class on FRIDAY.

Poetry 3.3

Poetry 3.3

Do now: Create flashcards for weeks 10 and 11 vocab

Objectives:

• Listen to “The Raven”
• Define vocab words
• Create a poem about a social issue using one central image

Agenda:

1. Do now
2. Orange and Pink: Vocab week 12
3. Listen: listen and read along to Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”
4. Socrative: did you like “The Raven”?  Why/why not?
5. Draft: Social justice poem (poem #3 in poetry packet)
6. Summarizer

HW: Finish drafting poem

Poetry 3.2

Poetry 3.2

Do now: Write the title of your poem above your poem.  Take a screenshot of the poem and upload it to your student folder in Google drive

Objectives:

• close read poems
• annotate poems for figurative language (imagery), theme, and meaning
• define vocabulary words

Agenda:

1. Do now
2. PURPLE ONLY: Vocab week 12
3. Poetry packet: Metaphor- “strange fruit” and remake
4. Answer packet questions (pages 17 and 18)
5. Socrative: Describe a day at school using only metaphors (at least 3 sentences)
6. Summarizer

HW: Finish answering packet questions

Poetry 3.1

Do now: Share your sensory detail paragraph with a partner.  Can they identify the 5 senses?

Objectives:

• Create “found poetry”
• Include sensory imagery in a poem draft

Agenda:

1. Do now
2. Found Poetry!  Packet page 16: Question 1 (5 minutes)
3. Overview of found poetry assignment
4. Create found poetry!
5. Summarizer

HW: Draft a title for your found poem

Do now: Homework survey: HERE

Listen to Langston Hughes reading "Harlem"

Objectives:

• read and annotate a poem
• listen to a performance of a poem
• identify imagery in a poem

Agenda:

1. do now

2. Class: review "Harlem" questions in packet
3. Listen to "Juicy"
4. Read/annotate Poem
5. Answer questions
6. Sensory imagery activity
7. Summarizer

HW: finish imagery activity 

Poetry 2.2

DO now: share your poem with a partner. On your partner's paper: write 1 compliment and 1 suggestion for revision for the poem.  Extra credit: read your poem in front of the class

Objectives:

• close read poems
• annotate poems for figurative language (imagery), theme, and meaning
• define vocabulary words
• demonstrate understanding of vocabulary through creative writing

Agenda:

1. do now
2. Hand in ORB chart
3. Vocab Week 11
4. Create a paragraph short story using week 10 and week 11 words. Create in google drive and underline vocab words. (Orange and Pink only)
5. Conference with Ms. Santiago about course placement
6. Poetry Packet: "Harlem" by Langston Hughes
7. Imagery activity: Take one sensory image from "Harlem" and draw it!
8. Summarizer

HW: Finish answering "Harlem" questions