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Adrianna Pacheco (UOIT):
Poetry Activity- Description Poem
This activity can be used with grades 7-12. The objects you chose to include will determine the level of the activity. The activity will take about 45-50 minutes and the students will need a paper and pen or pencil. The teacher will need to provide the list of objects. You could physically bring in a few objects so that the students have the object there to examine.
Provide the students with a list of objects, and have each student choose an object from the list that they like. You will want to choose objects that can be described easily. You should not reveal to the students that they will be writing a poem about the word until the end of the activity.
Once the students have chosen an object they should write as many sentences as they can to describe the appearance of their object. You will then ask the students to describe the sounds, smells, tastes, and texture of the object in as many sentences as possible. Once the students have completed this writing you will tell them to organize their descriptions into a poem. To create the poem they may rearrange the sentences, combine the sentences, and exclude sentences. (This part of the activity will take between 15 and 20 minutes)
The final product should be a poem that describes the object in detail without using the name of the object anywhere except for the title. (The final polished version of the poem will take about 20-30 minutes)
Adrianna Pacheco (UOIT):
I have posted below an excellent website for poetry lessons and activities. This website has links to many, many resources. It is good for gettng ideas, and learning about various of types of poetry. I recommend giving this website a try, as it has a wealth of information. Although most of the information is ready to use, you may want to improve some of the links. But, it is a great place to start.
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/poetrygeneral.html
Here is another great link put together by the same website. This link has an alphabetical list of famous poets. When you click on the poets name you have access to lesson plans that include the poets work, poems the poet has written, and information about the poet. This link is excellent if you need to learn more about a specific poet.
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/poetry.html
Sarah:
There seem to be an abundance of on-line resources available for teaching poetry, so I thought I’d post some of the ideas that I like the best:
I liked the poetry description sheet idea: http://www.uleth.ca/edu/currlab/handouts/poetry_ideas.html because it would help students think about descriptions, literary techniques and also build up a bank of interesting phrases which they could use if they are stuck or need some inspiration.
Poetic Description Sheet:
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E.g. Description of Trees:
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Ordinary Description: (First words that come to mind):
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Poetic Description: (Words that paint a picture in the reader's mind)
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Green
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Greener than a coral sea
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Tall
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towering
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Old
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more wrinkled than a 100 year old man's face
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Etc....
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The example above is also similar to my Nintendo DS (Brain Train), where you have a three lettered word ‘EAR’ for example and have to describe it using those letters, so ‘Edward’s Audio Receiver:’ the more creative the better.
Then I came across a variation of the “I’m from” poems that we studied last semester called “I’m special...who am I?” which I thought was a really positive spin on the same idea and some of the comments are that teachers have used it to get to know their students in terms of who they are now and what they think about themselves. For me, an extension of this might be that you do this at the beginning of the term and try to match the students to the poems (though I think this would work better in Grade 7/8): http://www.poeticpower.com/poetrytips.html
Always useful is a glossary of literary terms: http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/poetterm.cfmHi Everyone,
A previous posting referenced: http://www.webenglishteacher.com/poetrygeneral.html
Megan S: A poetry resource I found was: www.poetry.org. It's an American site, but has lots of relevent.useful information, such as - curriculum units & lesson plans, poems to teach, essays on teaching (general and also on poetry), helpful tips, and information on a poetry read-a-thon.
(I found lots of websites that could be useful by googling Teaching Poetry High School.)
Lesson Plans
Sarah: I created a lesson plan last year that introduced students to various types of poetry, so please find attached the lesson plan & applicable files for this. Haven't tried it out, but I did use a mixture of carousel/station teaching strategy on the class I designed this for and it worked out better than a jigsaw strategy, so perhaps that would be my only revision of this lesson plan (the class loved running to the next station when the time was up). If you want the resources for this, e-mail me and I'll send them to you (files are quite large).
Sarah_Tolley_EnglishLessonPlan.docx
Hello All!
I made this poetry lesson plan a little while ago, and I tried it out during my first practicum. I was in a grade 8 class, and the students loved the lesson! It is a stations activity, where each station reviews a different poetry concept. Therefore, it is a good review or wrap up at the end of a poetry unit. The station activities mainly focus on repetition, imagery, point of view, and emphasis. I hope it can be of some use to some of you! Please don't hesitate to ask me questions about it. I've posted the lesson plan and the handouts that I used during the lesson.
wallace_kristen_poetry_lesson_plan.docx
wallace_kristen_poetrylesson_handouts.docx
Kristen Wallace, UOIT
Hello everyone!
I created a lesson plan on my first practicum. It was a lesson on using the punch, paint & pause tool then collaborative writing using the same emphasis. I created a rubric, but I did it prior to any training on it. It was a difficult thing to do. Please see the attached.
Poetry7-8lesson.docx
freeverserbric.doc
Helga DeSousa, UOIT
Hello,
I do have a lesson plan that I used for my first placement with my grade eights. I think it is a good resource to use at the beginning of the school year when you would like to get to know your students. You can also use this Bio Poem with your students or character analysis of a book you are reading!
Henry_Cortnie_ eng_lesson_plan_1.docx
Also, here is a website that tickled my fancy. It deals with young poets (which coincidentally is who we will be teaching). I enjoyed the poems that were posted by the younger generations and gave great insight on teacher poetry as a whole. One of the best lines in the opening article is when it states, "Most of the exercises I use when teaching poetry are designed to help students not be afraid of poetry and trust their own reactions to it". Genius. I think that most of our students are afraid of poetry because they are afraid of being wrong in their interpretation of it. This website encourages the teachers and the 'young poets' to explore trust in their thoughts and insights when posed to both write and analyse poetry. This website also deals with publishing ones work and the process one might need to take inorder to do so and teaching ideas.
To be honest I didnt really find anything i disliked about the site. But go and take a look for yourself and let me know what you think.
http://www.youngpoets.ca/teaching_poetry
-Cortnie
Hello everyone,
The website I came across (http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm) had an idea that really struck me. This technique is very straight forward and relatively easy to produce in the classroom. The only difficulty would be having the required technology accessible in the school. However, the teacher could get around this by using one computer and projector and have the class work as a whole.
The lesson is as follows:
"High tech alternative to journal writing - If regular writing to build fluency is a goal for you and your students, consider a day off from pen and paper journal writing and replace it with a fill in the blanks instant poem. Encourage your students to either print out their work or export it into a word processing program for additional revising and editing. Or even to add clip art or a digital image to enhance their words."
Personally, I found this idea interesting. Believe that the idea of "fill in the blanks" to seem a little simplistic at first, however, after talking to our prof, Janette, about this idea I've come to some new thoughts. Janette suggested a poem to me where she uses this technique. It's called Silver by Walter de la Mere. She takes the poem and enters blanks where the word silver appears and has the students fill in the poem twice. The first time she has them write with "descriptors" and the second time with "colours". I believe this could be very interesting because it causes students to think about the meaning behind each word in the sentences.
I can't really think of a negative point of this type of activity because it's really limitless. You could make it as creative and complex as you like. The only negative thing I can think of would be to put too many restrictions on the "template" because that could limit creativity.
What do you all think?
Also, here is my poetry lesson plan. This is created for grade 8's.
Barson_Meghan_poetrylesson.docx
- Meghan
Megan S: The following links are a lesson plan I did during my first placement to get students to start writing poetry.
Hook-teacherCopy.docx
Hook-StudentCopy.docx
Lesson_Plan_Poetry_msteep_ISenglish.docx
Poems-Sliver-That_Leaf.docx
Ticket_out_the_Door.docx
Hi Everyone!
I found some templates for poetry to help give teachers ideas, to help struggling students or ELL learners with writing their own poetry. Paxton_Laura_Poetry_RoundRobin.doc
Although this is an elementary school website, I think its templates could help develop poetry lessons and introduce students to reading and creating poetry.
http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/poetry.html
I also used this website on my second placement, we incorporated poetry and drama together so the students could interact with the text; therefore lifting the text of the page and they started to create their own poems based on their drama experiences.
http://www.poetryteachers.com/poetclass/poetclass.html
Hope you find it useful and enjoy.
Steph
ALSO
Here is my poetry activity that I used in my grade 5-8 classes in my first placement. I integrated music, poetry and drama all together!
It was alot of fun and will work with almost any poems.
I just changed the difficulty of the poems depending on the grade level.
Music notation is similar to paint, punch and pause.
I also attached the rubric I created with my AT to evaluate the students.
Casselman_5D_Music_Thursday_October_30.docx
Choral_Reading_Rubric.docx
Steph
Howdy Everyone,
I developed a lesson plan for teaching poetry in my grade 7 placement that involved some of the elements modelled by Janette and combined them with art elements. This lesson combines art appreciation with developing poetry.
Paxton_Laura_Poetry_RoundRobin.doc
This lesson plan is easily modified depending on your class size and their abilities. I was able to use it with a fantastic grade 7 class twice within two different subjects, however they were very well behaved and I made sure to explain how the students moved around the classroom before we began. I began with historical art pieces by famous and less famous artists and for the other lesson I used found non-copyrighted online images I printed out on 8 1/2 by 11 pages. For assessment/evaluation I had them present their poems to the class (on a volunteer basis of course, but once a few share they all want to share theirs) but I also had them hand them in to be read by the teacher. This is more of a development exercise rather than a cummulative exercise.
Laura
Hey All!
Sorry this is coming so late! I actually found a really great website that I love. It is a website that is written by a teacher so it's especially relevant to the hurdles we will face when we begin writing poetry. This website addresses different ideas and perspectives that the teacher can present to their students when beginning a poetry unit. It includes NUMEROUS lessons on different forms of poetry such as song poetry, Shakesperean sonnets and imagist poetry. I think that it will be extremely beneficial to use in a classroom.
http://home.cogeco.ca/~rayser3/poetry.htm#argue
I realize that it is not an academic site.... but I thought, what better site could we use then one that is written by someone who is speaking from personal experience within the classroom. Each lesson provides the materials needed and specific instructions on how to conduct the lesson, as well as sample poems to use for the particular lesson.
Have fun with it!!!!!
Jen
Hi Again,
Unfortunately, I have not had the opportunity to teach a poetry lesson on any of my placements so far. So I have included one that Cortnie and I wrote as well as a lesson that I found on the website I mentioned above. These lessons are for grade 10 English students. Both of these lessons relate to eachother and the purpose is to, "to help students gain a broader conception of poetry. To cultivate a more favourable affective disposition to poetry and to gain an intuitive understanding of some of the main structural elements of a poem such as rhythm, rhyme, meter,symbol etc." Both lessons incorporate the analysis and representation of songs as a form of poetry. I think studying songs that the students like is a fantastic way to introduce poetry. They will become captured in the lesson and at the same time will be learning interpretation techniques.
http://home.cogeco.ca/~rayser3/stairway.txt- This is the lesson from the website!
wiki.docx- This is the lesson Cort and I wrote!
Please let me know what you think! Thanks guys!!!!!
Jen
Comments (1)
nd49@... said
at 4:35 pm on Jun 14, 2009
We found poetrygrid very useful.
Ciaran and Nessan.
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