Poetry
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In this unit, students will have the opportunity to explore the genre of poetry.
Why this poetry unit is important?
What will students learn?
This unit teaches students tools and strategies for approaching poetry and methods and devices poets use. Students will read and interpret both formal and free verse poems. Students will have opportunities to create poems themselves, allowing them to practice what they have learned.
Conversation starters:
Ask your child questions about the unit to promote discussion and continued learning:
1. Have you read poetry before? If so, when or where?
Follow up: Do you check out poetry books from the library?
2. Can you name any poems or poets you particularly like?
Follow up: Can you think of a poem to recite to me?
3. What words, ideas, or feelings come to mind when you hear the word poetry?
Follow up: Does poetry always follow grammar rules?
Does poetry always rhyme?
Why this poetry unit is important?
- The poets come from many backgrounds and nations: the poets included are of European, Middle Eastern, African American, Native American, and Hispanic descent.
- The poems themselves are similarly diverse.
- This unit encourages students to express their views on a poem and it shies away from listing one “correct” meaning so long as those interpretations are rationally supported by evidence from the poem’s text
- Students will write poetry themselves and analyze others' writing.
What will students learn?
This unit teaches students tools and strategies for approaching poetry and methods and devices poets use. Students will read and interpret both formal and free verse poems. Students will have opportunities to create poems themselves, allowing them to practice what they have learned.
Conversation starters:
Ask your child questions about the unit to promote discussion and continued learning:
1. Have you read poetry before? If so, when or where?
Follow up: Do you check out poetry books from the library?
2. Can you name any poems or poets you particularly like?
Follow up: Can you think of a poem to recite to me?
3. What words, ideas, or feelings come to mind when you hear the word poetry?
Follow up: Does poetry always follow grammar rules?
Does poetry always rhyme?
Writing
In the writing lessons of this unit, students work either independently or collaboratively to create original poems that model the structure and style of those studied in each lesson. Students will be encouraged to compose their own poems.
Students will use the following components: planning, drafting, sharing, evaluating, revising, and editing (and the optional component of publishing).
In this unit, there are numerous writing opportunities. Students will regularly engage in writing short answers in response to text-based questions. Students will focus on the use of evidence from the text and on individual sentence construction.
Students will compose rhymes, similes, and metaphors; use repetition, anaphora, and alliteration; inspired by the poems studied in this unit.
Students will use the following components: planning, drafting, sharing, evaluating, revising, and editing (and the optional component of publishing).
In this unit, there are numerous writing opportunities. Students will regularly engage in writing short answers in response to text-based questions. Students will focus on the use of evidence from the text and on individual sentence construction.
Students will compose rhymes, similes, and metaphors; use repetition, anaphora, and alliteration; inspired by the poems studied in this unit.
Vocabulary
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apostrophe
content form line break stanza stanza break |
metaphor
simile rhyme rhyme scheme slant rhyme quatrain |
theme
theme excerpt tone anaphora figurative language |