It integrates reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills applicable to 6th Grade Common Core Standards. Standards-Based Reading Instruction - This portion of the day is where students read and analyze grade-level text using a variety of skills to meet our grade-level standards.We will be utilizing the EL Education curriculum. In order to get older students even remotely interested in poetry, students must be able to hear and see poetry come alive. These poetry videos for middle and high school can help teachers do just that. Context reading 18 Terms. 2nd Grade Forces and Magnets 16 Terms. 2nd Grade Ancient China 14 Terms. THIS SET IS OFTEN IN FOLDERS WITH. 6th grade poetry terms 25 Terms. Poetry test terms 11 Terms. Poetry Terms for 6th grade 15 Terms. 6th Grade Poetry Terms 14 Terms.
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Venn Diagram
This interactive tool allows students to create Venn diagrams that contain two or three overlapping circles, enabling them to organize their information logically.
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Beyond History Books: Researching With Twin Texts and Technology
Students in grades 48 activate prior knowledge and research information about a historic event through fiction and nonfiction literature and exploration of relevant websites.
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Tell me about it in your own words! If students can paraphrase the information they have read, then youand theycan be confident that they understand it.
Student Interactives
Students can use this tool to learn about the elements of the hero's journey, analyze a text that follows the hero's journey pattern, or start creating a hero story of their own.
Paint a vivid picture in your reader's mind with good descriptive writing! Artwork provides the perfect starting point for practicing descriptive writing that conveys color, shape, line, and mood.
This tool allows students to complete crossword puzzles on a variety of grade-appropriate topics, and also create and print their own crossword puzzles.
Working in small groups, students compose found and parallel poems based on a descriptive passage they have chosen from a piece of literature they are reading.
Supporting inquiry-based research projects, the Animal Inquiry interactive invites elementary students to explore animal facts and habitats using writing prompts to guide and record their findings.
Students explore figurative language in poetry by reading and writing riddle poems.
The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for an informational, definitional, or descriptive essay.
Dust off your poetry lesson plans and your lesson plans on poetry analysis–better yet, throw them away–because once you do speed poetry analysis, you’ll never look at poetry lesson plans the same.
Beat! Beat! Poetry Drums
I thought I had great poetry lesson plans, poetry analysis activities, and excellent poetry teaching skills…
“Mr., your class is boring,” said Walt. “Your poetry lesson plans, poetry analysis activities, and poetry teaching skills aren’t very good. It’s like watching leaves of grass grow or something. It’s about time I teach you a lesson.” Walt took a wrench out of his pocket and struck me on the head. I woke up in a classroom. The teacher was reading “O’ Captain! My Captain!” The teacher was me.
Walt turned to me, “Now you’ll understand how we feel.” After listening to myself for an hour, I looked at the clock. Only 14 seconds had passed. I tried to sleep but I kept swatting me in the head whenever I put my head down. I couldn’t take it anymore. I stood up, ran to the window, and jumped out, head first, onto the pavement below.
I was the teacher again. On my desk lay poetry lesson plans, poetry analysis activities, and a copy of the Portable Walt Whitman.
I share my favorite lesson with you. It’s called Poetry Speed Analysis.
Speed Poetry Procedures
Before doing this assignment, students should know how to annotate and analyze a poem.
Imagine having 11 complete poetry units with handouts and lesson plans completed. You don’t need to imagine. These units are teacher ready and student ready. Just print, make copies, and accept accolades from colleagues and students.
Instruct students to adhere to the following schedule.
5 minutes: Annotate a poem. Each student should annotate the same poem individually. Five minutes, obviously, will not allow them to annotate the entire thing, but it will get them started.
1 minute: Explain the assignment. Each group will have exactly 20 minutes to prepare a presentation on the same poem. The presentation must last exactly three minutes. The group’s spokesperson will discuss the poem and instruct the entire class. It must include analysis, interpretation, and insight.
2 minutes: Form groups; move desks; choose captain; choose spokesperson.
20 minutes: Analyze the poem and prepare the presentation.
2 minutes: Move desks back and pack things up.
1 minute: All spokespersons leave the room.
3 minutes: Group 1 spokesperson presents. The presentation must last exactly 3 minutes, even if it means the spokesperson speaks for one minute and stands with his hands in his pockets for 2 minutes. If the spokesperson is still speaking at the 3 minute mark, give her the hook.
3 minutes each: Groups 2-7 present. Each group spokesperson walks in right when the previous spokesperson ends.
Speed Poetry Assessment
Poetry Unitmrs. Parker's 6th Grade L.a. Classes
Break the assignment into three categories:
Analysis – You may want to collect each group’s annotations to properly assess this or just collect the group leader’s paper with everyone’s name on it. Another option is to assign a paragraph analysis. The spokesperson must present the group’s analysis to the class.
Presentation – Does the presentation take up 3 minutes. How well did the group prepare the spokesperson. It’s OK to give the spokesperson a higher grade than the rest of the group.
Participation – monitor the class and give a participation grade to each student. The spokesperson will, in most cases, receive an automatic ‘A’ on participation and you may choose to excuse them from the paragraph analysis.
ELA Common Core Standards Covered
Teaching poetry with this lesson plan covers the following ELA Common Core Standards.
RL.9-10.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text
RL.9-10.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
RL.9-10.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).
L.9-10.5 Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
L.9-10.5a Interpret figures of speech (e.g., euphemism, oxymoron) in context and analyze their role in the text
SL.9-10.1 Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9-10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
SL.9-10.1a Come to discussions prepared, having read and researched material under study; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence from texts and other research on the topic or issue to stimulate a thoughtful, well-reasoned exchange of ideas.
SL.9-10.1b Work with peers to set rules for collegial discussions and decision-making (e.g., informal consensus, taking votes on key issues, presentation of alternate views), clear goals and deadlines, and individual roles as needed.
SL.9-10.1c Propel conversations by posing and responding to questions that relate the current discussion to broader themes or larger ideas; actively incorporate others into the discussion; and clarify, verify, or challenge ideas and conclusions.
SL.9-10.1d Respond thoughtfully to diverse perspectives, summarize points of agreement and disagreement, and, when warranted, qualify or justify their own views and understanding and make new connections in light of the evidence and reasoning presented.
Poetry Unitmrs. Parker's 6th Grade L.a. Classic
Teaching Literary Elements with Poems
Poetry Unitmrs. Parker's 6th Grade L.a. Classroom
Understanding literary elements is necessary for literary analysis. These poems will help you teach literary elements.
