1. Poetry Part 1
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.

2. Learning Targets Learning Targets
Students will identify examples of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds, including alliteration, on a: specific verse or stanza of a poem
Students will analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds, including alliteration, on a: specific verse or stanza of a poem
Students will explain the meaning of a poem
Learning Targets

3. Activities Bell ringers Write down 5 things about Poetry
Define a haiku and tell the deference between a haiku and a concrete poem
CATS practice page
Textbook page 161
Define onomatopoeia and provide an example
Activities

4. Concrete poem
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Note taking

5. Poems Things by Eloise Greenfield Ham n Eggs by A Tribe Called Quest
Discuss the purpose and describe your reaction
Poems

6. Poem Read the The Rider by Nye, Seal by Smith, and Haiku by Buson
Create a chart for poetic form; haiku, concrete and lyric
Define each using text book and power point
Poem

7. Read out loud Winter by Giovanni, Solt by Ellen, and haiku by Basho
How are these three poems similar?
Name one important element of nature in each of the three haiku
Poem

8. Poem Read out loud Loo-Wit by Wendy Rose and Life by Madgett
List three details that lead to the conclusion for Life:
The speaker believes that people lose interest in life as they grow older
Give three personification in Loo-Wit
Poem

9. Activities Daily activities Activities
Draw a picture that corresponds to your favorite poem
Figurative language
Complete pages 150, 153,154 and 158 in student workbook
Figurative language using Winter by Giovanni, Solt by Ellen, and haiku by Basho
Complete pages 163, 164
Figurative language using personification and simile
Complete page 9 and 10 from Poetry Writing
Sound Devices and Vocabulary building: Page
Activities

10. Poem Notes on personification Read Loo-Wit and Life
In Life give three examples of how people lose interest in life as they age
In Loo-Wit give three examples personification
Group activity for poetic devices
language-worksheets/poetic-devices-illustration- project.pdf
Poem

11. Activities 1. Note taking from power point on poetic devices
e-language/poetic-devices/poetic-devices- activities/
2. Do you think these poems are meaning for people your age? Share responses with a partner
Activities

12. Learning targets and standards
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.
Students will explain the meaning of a poem
Analyze how a poem’s form or structure contributes to its meaning.
Learning targets and standards

13. Poem and activities week 2
Read Weather by Merriam
Which sound devices does the poet use in the last stanza?
Paraphrase Weather
e-language-worksheets/identifying-poetic- devices.pdf questions 1-5
Make your own tongue twister
List three items that remind you of water
Poem and activities week 2

14. Read Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out by Silverstein and One by Berry
Paraphrase the poem
If Sarah could dedicate just five minutes a day to..
Note taking from 7th grade Poetry Unit
web code ema-607
Poems and activities

15. Poem and activities Read out loud Full Fathom Five
Paraphrase
Note taking on Sonnets 7th grade Poetry Unit
Complete question 2 on page 590 in text
Examples:
Create your own poem in the style of your favorite pet
Poem and activities

16. Poem and activity Sonnet
Use for note taking and reading
poems.html
Read out loud Sonnet 130 My Mistress Eyes poems.me.uk/shakespeare_sonnet_130_mistress_eyes.htm
Activity
Respond to poems.me.uk/shakespeare_sonnet_18_shall_i_compare_thee _to_a_summers_day.htm
Draw a picture based on the description of the man’s mistress
Poem and activity

17. Poem end of week 1& 2 Ciits test on poetry
Benchmark diagnostic test on poetry
Write a poem
Label the style
Use two poetic devices
Illustrate
Example
rstein/poems/14818
Poem end of week 1& 2