1. Poetry Part 1
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.
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2. Learning Targets Learning Targets
Students will identify examples of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds, including alliteration, on a: specific verse or stanza of a poem
Students will analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds, including alliteration, on a: specific verse or stanza of a poem
Students will explain the meaning of a poem

3. Activities Bell ringers Write down 5 things about Poetry
Define a haiku and tell the deference between a haiku and a concrete poem
CATS practice page
Textbook page 161
Define onomatopoeia and provide an example

4. Note taking
Concrete poem
Personification
Onomatopoeia

5. Poems Things by Eloise Greenfield Ham n Eggs by A Tribe Called Quest
Discuss the purpose and describe your reaction

6. Poem Read the The Rider by Nye, Seal by Smith, and Haiku by Buson
Create a chart for poetic form; haiku, concrete and lyric
Define each using text book and power point

7. Poem
Read out loud Winter by Giovanni, Solt by Ellen, and haiku by Basho
How are these three poems similar?
Name one important element of nature in each of the three haiku

8. Poem Read out loud Loo-Wit by Wendy Rose and Life by Madgett
List three details that lead to the conclusion for Life:
The speaker believes that people lose interest in life as they grow older
Give three personification in Loo-Wit

9. Activities Daily activities Activities
Draw a picture that corresponds to your favorite poem
Figurative language
Complete pages 150, 153,154 and 158 in student workbook
Figurative language using Winter by Giovanni, Solt by Ellen, and haiku by Basho
Complete pages 163, 164
Figurative language using personification and simile
Complete page 9 and 10 from Poetry Writing
Sound Devices and Vocabulary building: Page