1. How do I distinguish among poetry, prose, and drama?

2. How do I distinguish among poetry, prose, and drama?
Key Learning: Texts are structured in a way to help the reader comprehend the information more easily.
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Unit Essential Question: How does analyzing text structure help you better understand the information you are reading?
Concept:
Concept:
Nonfiction Text Features
Concept:
Types of Prose
Concept:
Biography and Autobiography
Poetry, Prose and Drama
Lesson Essential Questions:
How do I distinguish among poetry, prose, and drama? ,
Lesson Essential Questions:
How do the features of nonfiction texts aid in comprehension? ,
Lesson Essential Questions:
How do you explain the characteristics of biography and autobiography?
Lesson Essential Questions:
What are the distinguishing characteristics of the different types of prose? ,

3. Unit Vocabulary Poetry Prose Drama
Text features
(headings, key words, captions, footnotes, maps, charts, graphs, timelines, tables, diagrams)
Fiction
Nonfiction
Genre
Biography
Autobiography

4. Table of Contents for: Text Structure
Title of Paper
Date of
Assign
Your
Score
Worth 1
Poetry, Prose, and Drama PN 20 2
Poetry, Prose, and Drama Summarizer NBP 3
Reading Poetry, Prose, and Drama Worksheet 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

5. Activator
What Is It?
See if you can tell what each title is… poetry, prose, or drama
Record your answers on your notesheet.

6. The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
Activator
The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
“After a Hundred Years” by Emily Dickenson
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography by Lemony Snicket

7. Poetry

8. Poetry’s Purpose Poetry is a form of writing that is meant to
1. entertain
2. express

9. Text Features of Poetry
There are several features of poetry that make it unique from other forms of writing. These are:

10. Text Features of Poetry
Varied in length
Written in lines and stanzas
Uses sound devices (rhyme, alliteration, onomatopoeia, etc…)
Takes poetic license with space, punctuation, grammar, etc…

11. Text Features of Poetry
Uses word pictures to build sensory impressions and create images
Plays with the sounds of words and the rhymes of phrases
Is usually intended to be read aloud

12. Forms of Poetry
Poetry can take several forms. These are:

13. Acrostic Poems Ballads Lyrical Poems Haikus Narrative Poems Free Verse
Forms of Poetry
Shape Poems
Acrostic Poems
Ballads
Lyrical Poems
Haikus
Narrative Poems
Free Verse
Blank Verse

14. Let’s Review #1
Tell me three things that you have learned about poetry (write them down).

15. Prose

16. Prose’s Purpose Prose is a form of writing that is meant to: 1. inform
2. entertain
3. express
4. persuade

17. Text Features of Prose
There are several features of prose that make it unique from other forms of writing. These are:

18. Written using paragraphs May contain dialogue
Text Features of Prose
Written using paragraphs
May contain dialogue
Can be either fiction or nonfiction
Can have headings and/or subheadings
Can be accompanied by graphics (charts, photos)

19. Forms of Prose
Prose can take several forms. These are:

20. Biography Autobiography Essay Novel Short Story Novella Article
Forms of Prose
Biography
Autobiography
Essay
Novel
Short Story
Novella
Article
Fable / Folktale
Folktale

21. Let’s Review #2
Tell me three things that you have learned about prose (write them down).

22. Drama

23. Drama’s Purpose Drama is a form of writing that is meant to:
1. express
2. entertain

24. Text Features of Drama
There are several features of drama that make it unique from other forms of writing. These are:

25. Can have staging directions Can have a list of characters
Text Features of Drama
Can have staging directions
Can have a list of characters
Written to be performed
Written in the form of a script (dialogue)
Can include directions for costuming and physically setting a stage

26. Forms of Drama
Drama can take several forms. These are:

27. Forms of Drama
Play
Skit
Opera
Musical
Monologue

28. Let’s Review #3
Tell me three things that you have learned about drama (write them down).

29. Summarizer, Part 1 Look back at our activator.
Now that you are more familiar with poetry, prose, and drama, go back and double-check if your first answers are correct.
If they aren’t, fix them with your GRADING pen.

30. Summarizer, Part 2 Take out a blank sheet of notebook paper.
Title it “Poetry, Prose, and Drama Summarizer” and head it properly.
Follow the directions on the next slide.

31. Turn it into the blue bin when you are done.
Summarizer, Part 2
We are doing a 3-2-1…
3. Write three types of text (there are only three)
2. Write two features of each type (label each type so I know what it is)
1. Write one form of each type
(label each type so I know what it is)
Turn it into the blue bin when you are done.