1. 1-Month Unit: Day 8

2. Agenda: Do Now: Identify the poetic devices! Cornell Notes: Poem structure Guided practice: Identify and analyze the poems Independent practice: Write your own poem!

3. Directions: Pick an image and imagine that you were standing in the middle of it. Describe the scene to someone who wasn’t there and include any sounds that you hear, things you see, and what you are thinking. Do Now

4. Today’s Objectives SW identify, define, and analyze the use of rhyme scheme and poetic structure write their own original poems using poetic devices and following a ?specific structure.

5. Notes: Poem Structure Questions & Key Words Details How are poems typically organized? Quick review: What is a stanza? In stanzas and lines. Each stanza can be about a different topic that relates to the overall meaning of the poem. Quick review: What is a line?

6. Questions & Key Words Details What is poem structure? Poem structure is a poem’s organization. Poems can have many different types of organizational patterns. A haiku A haiku is a specific type of poem with a certain structure. Each line is organized by a certain number of syllables. A syllable is a beat. Why is it important for poems to have a structure?

7. Try your own haiku! [5-7-5] _________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _________________________________________

8. Let's analyze a poem and its structure! Woman Work by Maya Angelou I've got the children to tend The clothes to mend The floor to mop The food to shop Then the chicken to fry The baby to dry I got company to feed The garden to weed I've got shirts to press The tots to dress The can to be cut I gotta clean up this hut Then see about the sick And the cotton to pick. Shine on me, sunshine Rain on me, rain Fall softly, dewdrops And cool my brow again. Storm, blow me from here With your fiercest wind Let me float across the sky 'Til I can rest again. Fall gently, snowflakes Cover me with white Cold icy kisses and Let me rest tonight. Sun, rain, curving sky Mountain, oceans, leaf and stone Star shine, moon glow You're all that I can call my own. Directions: Let’s read the poem by Maya Angelou together and analyze each stanza to see how she organized her poem.

9. Time to Analyze! Woman Work by Maya Angelou I've got the children to tend The clothes to mend The floor to mop The food to shop Then the chicken to fry The baby to dry I got company to feed The garden to weed I've got shirts to press The tots to dress The can to be cut I gotta clean up this hut Then see about the sick And the cotton to pick. What is stanza 1 about?

10. Shine on me, sunshine Rain on me, rain Fall softly, dewdrops And cool my brow again. What is stanza 2 about? Storm, blow me from here With your fiercest wind Let me float across the sky 'Til I can rest again. Fall gently, snowflakes Cover me with white Cold icy kisses and Let me rest tonight. Sun, rain, curving sky Mountain, oceans, leaf and stone Star shine, moon glow You're all that I can call my own. What is stanza 3 about? What is stanza 4 about? What is stanza 5 about?

11. What is the overall meaning of the poem?

12. On your own! Past, Present, and Future by Sean G. Being left alone, free to do whatever I want at an early age, life was interesting but scary, back in these days. Depending on my wants, instead of my needs, come bad deeds, guns, and weed. Once being left alone now has me suffering on my own. But growing up will be different, for the simple fact that I’m grown, I will still be on my own But never left alone. I see a successful old man, that turned an inch to a mile, and the experiences I had as a child, had me on trial and had me going wild, but I’m more of a man to the next man, because I gained growth through experience. Directions: Read the poem and in the boxes to the side on your handout, identify the topic of each stanza and analyze it for its meaning.

13. NOW: Create your own poem! Organize your poem today by idea. Each of the following must be at least one stanza, so your poem will have at least 4 stanzas. 1st part: about baby/childhood 2nd part: about being a teenager 3rd part: about being an adult 4th part: about old age You must include at least one of the poetic devices we have learned so far this unit! After 10 minutes, we will... SHARE OUT!! The theme of your poem is your life through various stages! You must use at least one poetic device in your poem! (You can always use MORE!) Your poem must be at least 4 stanzas long. Imagery Alliteration Onomatopoeia Symbolism Metaphor Personification

14. Wrap it up! 1. How are poems usually organized? 2. Why do poems need structure? 3. What is a haiku? 4. How can you analyze a poem by looking at its structure?