Example Poetry Lesson Plan


Name: Ms. Courtney Mineweaser
Date: September 4st, 2012
Class: A3

Lesson Details

Lesson Title
Using Your Sense to Inspire Poetry

Content Area
Secondary English- Poetry Appreciation

Grade level
10th-12th

Timeline
One (1)80 minute block period

Date of Lesson
September 14th, 2012

UBD Stage I: Identify Desired Results

Enduring Understandings
Students will be able to create a poem based on a specific poetic form.

Students will be able to use their sense and surroundings to inspire creativity.

Standards
12.RL.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful.

12.RL.1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.

12.W.5: Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or typing a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.


Lesson Objectives
·         Students will  create a poem, using a specific poetic form, based on the senses with 100% accuracy.

UBD Stage II: Determine Acceptable Evidence

Assessment Tasks
·         Students will be assessed on the poems they create using their senses.

Assessment Adaptations
Students struggling with concepts or material will be offered after school tutoring.

Students will be paired to allow peer teaching.

Rubric/Scoring Criteria
100 points can be earned based on the following criteria:
-          Student follows the poetic form 100%
-          Student uses at least two of the five senses

UBD Stage III: Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction

Materials and Resources
·         List of poetic forms

Anticipatory Set
After completing your bell ringer of a five minute free write we will be leaving the classroom to do an activity to help invoke your creativity.

Procedures and Content
  • As a class we will go outside to the stadium (if weather does not permit we will find a space inside the school).  (S/T)
  • Students will be asked to look at their surroundings for 3 minutes, and then write for two minutes about the things they noticed.
  • Students will be asked to close their eyes and listen to their surroundings for 3 minutes, and then write for two minutes about the things they heard.
  • Students will be asked to sit with their eyes closed and feel the things immediately around them (i.e. turf, clothing, benches, the breeze on their skin, etc.) for 3 minutes, and then write for two minutes about the things they felt.
  • Students will be asked to sit with their eyes close and smell their surroundings for 3 minutes, and then write about what they smelt for two minutes.
  • Students will be given different candies (allergies will be address prior to giving any food) students are to taste the candy for 3 minutes, and then write for 2 minutes about what they tasted.
  • Students will sit for 20 minutes and write in their notebooks all the things they can hear, see, touch, smell, and taste (if applicable). (S)
  • The class will then return to the classroom. (S/T)
  • Students will put aside their notebooks and share the poems they found for homework last class. (S)
  • Students will bring their notebooks out again and review the things they wrote during the “Senses” activity. (S)
  • Students will pick a poetic form of their choice to write a poem based on the things they observed during the “Senses” activity. (S)

Closure
Review how this activity can help with creativity.  Assign homework.

If time activity
  • Students can begin working on homework.
Homework
Students are to revise and edit their “Senses” poem, type it up and prepare to share it with the class next class period.

Lesson Reflection
As this was a small class the activity was easy to implement.  With a larger class this would be much harder to accomplish.  I would consider doing the activity in the classroom, or in another classroom in the school, for a larger class to help maintain order.

Overall students seemed to enjoy the activity, the discussed how focusing on one specific sense helped them to notice things they normally would not.  This was extremely evident in the creativity of the poems they each created.


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