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Bundle # 3 – Poetry (3 weeks)

Reading TEKS Writing TEKS Essential Questions Suggested Resources

Reading/Comprehension of Literary

Text/Poetry Students understand,

make inferences and draw conclusions

about the structure and elements of

poetry and provide evidence from text

to support their understanding.

Students are expected to:

3A - infer the implicit theme of a work

of fiction, distinguishing theme from

the topic

4A - explain how figurative language

(e.g., personification, metaphors,

similes, hyperboles) contributes to the

meaning of a poem.

10D - synthesize and make logical

connect

Fig19D - make inferences about text

and use textual evidence to support

understanding.

Writing Focus 15A - Write imaginative stories that include: (i) a clearly defined focus, plot, and point of view; (ii) a specific, believable setting created through the use of sensory details; and (iii) dialogue that develops the story.

15B write poems using: (i)poetic techniques (e.g., alliteration, onomatopoeia) (ii)figurative language (e.g., simile, metaphor) (iii)graphic elements (e.g., capital letters, line length)

Revise and Edit Focus

14D edit drafts for grammar,

mechanics, and spelling

14E - revise final draft in response to

feedback from peers and teacher and

publish written work for appropriate

POETRY What is poetry?

How is poetry different

from prose?

What are the elements and

structures of poetry that

deepen the understanding

of poetry?

How does a reader identify,

respond to, analyze, and

compare the elements of

poetry?

What are the elements of

poetry?

What is each element for?

Why are they relevant to

the poem?

READING Laying the Foundation for Poetry (book) Figurative Language PowerPoint Figurative Language Reference Elements of Poetry (Foundation Lesson) Poetry Sort TPCASTT (Analyzing Poetry) Steps to analyze poetry: T-Title P-Paraphrase F-Figurative Language A-Attitude S-Shifts T-Title T-Theme

TPCASTT Student Handout

Tone/Mood Words

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Fig19E - Summarize, paraphrase, and

synthesize in ways in ways that

maintain meaning and logical order

within a text and across texts.

Supporting Standard (Literary

Nonfiction, Drama)

Fig19F - Make connections (e.g.,

thematic links, author analysis between

and across multiple text of various

genres, and provide textual evidence.

audiences.

19A use and understand the function

of the following parts of the speech in

the context of reading, writing, and

speaking:

(i) verbs (irregular verbs and active and

passive voice); (ii) non-count nouns

(e.g. rice, paper); (iii) predicate

adjectives (She is intelligent.) and their

comparative and superlative forms

(e.g. many, more, most); (iv)

conjunctive adverbs (e.g.

consequently, furthermore, indeed);

(v) prepositions and prepositional

phrases to convey location, time,

direction, onto provide details; (vi)

indefinite pronouns (e.g. all, both,

nothing, anything); (vii) subordinating

conjunctions); (viii) transitional words

and phrases that demonstrate an

understanding of the function of the

transition related to the organization

of the writing (e.g. on the contrary, in

addition to)

What can you infer about

the speaker?

How does figurative

language contribute to the

meaning of the poem?

How does word choice

affect imagery?

How does an author use

figurative language to

support his purpose?

Sound Devices

Frayer Models

Suggested Poems:

“Oranges” by Gary Soto Lesson

“A Dream Within a Dream” by

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe PowerPoint

“Abuelito Who” by Sandra

Cisneros

PowerPoint

Student Activity – Lap Book

Paraphrase Questions

Ode to La Tortilla Poem -

Analyze how figurative language

contributes to the poem.

Acrostic Poems

List Poems

How-to Poems

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19C use complete simple and

compound sentences with correct

subject-verb agreement

20A use capitalization for i. Abbreviations ii. Initials and acronyms; and iii. Organizations

20B recognize and use punctuation

marks including

i. Commas in compound sentences;

ii. Proper punctuation and spacing for quotations; and

iii. Parentheses, brackets, and ellipses ( to indicate omissions and interruptions or incomplete statements)

20C Use proper mechanics including

italics and underlining for titles of

books.

21A differentiate between commonly

confused terms (e.g., its, it’s; effect,

affect)

I’d Rather Be…Poems

Poem of Address

Personal Poems

Synonym Poems

Opposites

Review for Poetry Assessment

Suggested Texts: Naming the World by Nanci Atwell

Seeing the World by Paul

Jeneczko

Reading Poetry in the Middle

Grades by Paul Janeczko

Sensory Details - Every Cat Has

a Story pg. 78

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21B use spelling pattern and rules and

print and electronic resources to

determine and check correct spellings

21C know how to use spell-check

function in word processing while

understanding its limitations

Sensory Details Activity – Show

example chart, and then have

students complete the chart

after picking a place of choice, or

a place from the list provided.

Sensory Details “A Moment in

Time”

Have students bring pictures

from home. Group students to

analyze the pictures using the

above sheet.

The Friday Poetry Anthology for

Middle School; Poems for the

School Year with Connections to

the TEKS by Sylvia Vardell and

Janet Wong

Holt McDougal Literature Book,

Unit 5

The AP Vertical Teams Guide for

English, pg. 93-100

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WRITING

Students create a poem about

someone they care about deeply

using “Abuelito Who” as a

template.

Alliteration - write an original

Tongue twister after exploring

traditional tongue twisters.

Write a “found” poem

Peeling Back the Layers - “The

Witch” by Jack Prelutsky

Students use “The Witch” as a

mentor poem on which to

pattern an original poem about a

Halloween or Fall subject,

focusing on techniques to create

imagery using figurative

language (simile, metaphor,

onomatopoeia, alliteration)

Students will write an

imaginative story the week

before Halloween.

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Reading/ Writing Anchor Charts Academic Vocabulary

alliteration communicate compared conveys definition described dictionary entry end rhyme free verse hyperbole Image internal rhyme line meaning message metaphor meter mood

opinion personification poet relationships rhyme rhyme scheme rhythm shift simile speaker stanza summary task tone