1. Materials Needed: binder, poetry notes, a book, & pencil

2. Thursday August 18, 2016 Today’s Agenda
Bell Challenge Activity – Invitation to Imitate, Share, & Celebrate
Independent Reading Time
“Life Doesn’t Frighten Me At All” Lesson
Compare and Contrast the techniques & effects used in audio/live performances and reading the same text.
Exit Ticket – Writing Analysis

3. The house smelled of collard greens, vanilla musk, and love.
Bell Challenge
Invitation to Imitate 
Review the model sentence and the imitation sentence. Use your *READER’s EYES and *WRITER’s EYES to write your own imitation sentence.
READER’s EYES – Study the patterns and conventions the writer of the model sentence uses.
WRITER’s EYES – Write about the world you know.
The house smelled of collard greens, vanilla musk, and love.

4. Invitation to Share and Celebrate
Bell Challenge
Invitation to Share and Celebrate
If it is your turn, read your imitation to the class twice.
If it is another student’s turn, listen. Clap for fellow writers after the second reading.

5. 10 Minutes of Independent Reading

6. Criteria for Success
At the end of today’s lesson, I will analyze two versions of a poem, written text & spoken word, to compare and contrast how the techniques of both are similar and different. I will also, cite textual evidence to support my analysis of the two versions of the poem.

7. “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me At All” Revisited
Your Task
Revisit the poem, and using your poetry notes and t-chart, highlight the various writing techniques that Maya Angelou used in the poem.

8. “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me At All” Revisited – Graphic Organizer
Whole Group Activity
What techniques did Maya Angelou use in the written version of her poem?
What information is presented?
How is it presented?

9. Techniques & Effects in Audio/Live Performances
Mini-Lesson

13. “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me At All” Audio/Live Performance
Your Task
Listen to the audio/live performance of the poem.
Make note of the techniques used in the audio/live version and the effect they have on the poem for you, the reader.
As you listen, consider the following:
How is the text version of the poem different when you read it with your eyes than when you hear it with your ears?

14. “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me At All” Audio/Live Performance Graphic Organizer
Whole Group Activity
What techniques did Maya Angelou use in the audio/live performance version of her poem?
What information is presented?
How is it presented?

15. “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me At All” Graphic Organizer
Independent Task
Complete the last section of the graphic organizer for both the written & audio/live performance version of the poem.
Respond the question:
What insights did you gain from this version that you did not gain from the other?
What was it about the techniques that made this possible?

16. “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me At All” Graphic Organizer
Turn & Talk
In your partnership, compare and contrast your individual thoughts, notes, and differences between the written version and the audio version.

17. “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me At All” Exit Ticket
Respond to the following prompt in 4-6 well constructed sentences:
Considering the techniques of both the written and audio versions of the poem ‘Life Doesn’t Frighten Me At All’, decided which version of the poem had the most effect on you as a reader/listener. Discuss what techniques in your chosen version had the most effect and explain why.
Remember to cite textual evidence to support your response.