Reading strategies foundation unit Cycle 1, Day 6 Reading strategies foundation unit

Team Cooperation Skill: Writing Project: Narrative Poem Write the first two stanzas of a narrative poem. Team Cooperation Skill: Explain your ideas and tell why

Stanza 1 Example A B Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers the famous day and year. A B

Writing prompt The poems you have been reading celebrate heroic deeds of the past. What heroic deeds are performed today? Write a narrative poem telling about a modern-day heroic deed. Choose or invent a character, decide on a setting, and write the first two stanzas of the poem. What obstacle or problem must the hero of your poem overcome? You may want to imitate the rhythm and style of “Paul Revere’s Ride” or one of the narrative poems you have read. You will have a chance to add more stanzas in your narrative poem during the Writing Project time in Cycle 2.

Sample Graphic Organizer Heroic Deed Setting Main Character Action