Author:
April Hobson
Subject:
English
Material Type:
Homework/Assignment
Level:
High School
Tags:
  • Concrete
  • Free Verse
  • Giles
  • Haiku
  • Limerick
  • Poetry Forms
  • Shape
  • Slam
  • Sonnet
  • License:
    Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives
    Language:
    English
    Media Formats:
    Interactive

    Education Standards

    Poetic Forms 9th - 10th Grade English

    Poetic Forms 9th - 10th Grade English

    Overview

    1.)Literature should be puzzling, magical and mystifying. The best literature hinders easy interpretation and compels return visits. Poetry serves this purpose perfectly. Poetry is not meant to be solved. The ambiguous nature of the poem is one of the reasons it is not a favorite of the majority of class, but rather the minority.

    Poetry allows me to teach my students how to write, read, and understand any text. It also provides a healthy outlet for swelling teenage emotions. Some of the most empathetic and trusting moments in the classroom community for me over the past twenty years has come from students sharing their original work, to say nothing of the speaking and listening SOLS that are often overlooked in high school English.

     

    This lesson is for the discovery of poetry.

    Poetic Forms

    1.)Literature should be puzzling, magical and mystifying. The best literature hinders easy interpretation and compels return visits. Poetry serves this purpose perfectly. Poetry is not meant to be solved. The ambiguous nature of the poem is one of the reasons it is not a favorite of the majority of class, but rather the minority.

    Poetry allows me to teach my students how to write, read, and understand any text. It also provides a healthy outlet for swelling teenage emotions. Some of the most empathetic and trusting moments in the classroom community for me over the past twenty years has come from students sharing their original work, to say nothing of the speaking and listening SOLS that are often overlooked in high school English.

    2.)9.1 The student will participate in, collaborate in, and make multimodal presentations both independently and in small groups.

    9.3 The student will apply knowledge of word origins, derivations, and figurative language to extend vocabulary development in authentic texts.

    9.4 The student will read, comprehend, and analyze a variety of fictional texts including narratives, literary nonfiction, poetry, and drama.

    9.7 The student will self- and peer-edit writing for capitalization, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, paragraphing, and Standard English.a) Identify the characteristics that distinguish literary forms.

    3.) & 4.)

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f3CzpUFBQd1-sIRAL21T8nKBpTyuLszY/view?usp=sharing

     

    Description and Materials

    1.)Literature should be puzzling, magical and mystifying. The best literature hinders easy interpretation and compels return visits. Poetry serves this purpose perfectly. Poetry is not meant to be solved. The ambiguous nature of the poem is one of the reasons it is not a favorite of the majority of class, but rather the minority.

    Poetry allows me to teach my students how to write, read, and understand any text. It also provides a healthy outlet for swelling teenage emotions. Some of the most empathetic and trusting moments in the classroom community for me over the past twenty years has come from students sharing their original work, to say nothing of the speaking and listening SOLS that are often overlooked in high school English.

    2.)9.1 The student will participate in, collaborate in, and make multimodal presentations both independently and in small groups.

    9.3 The student will apply knowledge of word origins, derivations, and figurative language to extend vocabulary development in authentic texts.

    9.4 The student will read, comprehend, and analyze a variety of fictional texts including narratives, literary nonfiction, poetry, and drama.

    9.7 The student will self- and peer-edit writing for capitalization, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, paragraphing, and Standard English.a) Identify the characteristics that distinguish literary forms.

    3.) & 4.)

    My Poetry Lesson in Google Slide