Subject/Grade Lesson Plans Teachers:

Subject/Grade

Lesson PlansTeachers:

2013-2014

Unit TEKS: (RS/SS)

*7.4-Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry and provide evidence from text to support their understanding

*7.4 (A)-Explain how figurative language (ex. Personification, metaphors, similes, hyperbole) contribute to the meaning of a poem.

*7.8-Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about how an author’s sensory language creates imagery in literary text and provide evidence from text to support their understanding

*7.8A-determine the figurative meaning of phrases and analyze how an author’s use of language creates imagery, appeals to the senses, and suggests mood

Narrowed focus around 7.4(A) and

7.8(A)

Alternating daily bellworkMWF-EditingTHF-Reading

Monitor practice of various style of poetry-At the end of the unit, students will compile

best work into a poetry booklet

M-Editing, Grammar, Poetry Notes, Poetry handout (Vocabulary), Poetry PracticeT-Reading Practice-Poetry Notes, PracticeW-Editing-Collect packets, Poetry-Free verse and Rhyming, practice free verse and rhyming writingTh-Reading practice, Poetry-Haiku, Clerihew, Limerick and AcrosticF-Lightning in a Bottle, Collect homework, Poetry-Concrete and abstract

Prefixes and editing-due Friday

Subject DATE: SE WARM-UP Activity

AssessmentLANGUAGE OBJ

Sspeaking

Wwriting

Rreading

Llistening

C3G C5F C4J C2D

Homework

Essential Question?1.Why is line__presented differently

by the author of this poem?2. What mood was the author trying to set by the wording of the phrase__3. When the author uses the words--, what was the intended impact on the

reader?