3. Student Learning Map

  • Topic:07: Poetry
  • Subject(s):English Language Arts
  • Days:10
  • Grade(s):2
Key Learning:

Author's make language choices in poetry to engage the senses and paint a vivid picture in reader's minds.
Unit Essential Question(s):
 
 

How do I identify and make good language choices in poetry?
   
Concept: Characteristics of Poetry
LA.2.5.2.4   LA.2.5.2.2   LA.2.2.1.1   LA.2.1.4.2  
Concept: Figurative Language
LA.2.2.1.7  
Concept: Language Choices
LA.2.5.2.2   LA.2.3.3.3   LA.2.2.1.5   LA.2.2.1.3  
Lesson Essential Question(s):

Lesson Essential Question(s):

How are similies used to compare two things?

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How is a metaphor used to compare two things?

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Lesson Essential Question(s):

How do I read a poem with expression?

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How do language choices in poetry appeal to the senses, create imagery, and suggest mood?

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How do I use descriptive words to write a riddle, rhyme, or lyric?

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How do I write a poem using strong imagery and figurative language?

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Vocabulary:

poetry, characteristics, rhyming words, lyric

Vocabulary:

identify, personification, similes, metaphor, symbols, represent, word choice

Vocabulary:

sensory images, mood, descriptive words, imagery, figurative language, expression

Additional Information:

Polk County Schools

Curriculum Map/Monthly Focus Calendar

Reading Comprehension Skill Sequence

March: Fact/Opinion

Embedded throughout the year:

*Reference and Research

*Vocabulary

*Summarizing

Harcourt Trophies

  • Week 27, March 15 - 19, 2010, Teacher Discretion: Trade books relating to Poetry
  • Week 28, March 22 - 26, 2010, Teacher Discretion: Trade books relating to Poetry (rhymes, riddles, lyrics)

    • Resources:

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    Acquisition Lesson:

    1. What are basic characteristics of poetry?2. How do I understand and discuss the meaning of poetry that I listen to with others? 3. How do I identify personification in a text?6. How do poets use symbolism to represent or describe things?

    Vocabulary Report

    • poetry -

      literary works written in verse

    • sensory images -

      words that make you think of the five senses (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching)

    • identify -

      recognize

    • mood -

      the feeling or tone created by the author in a written work

    • personification -

      giving an animal or non-living object human qualities

    • characteristics -

      features of poetry that may include rhythm, rhyme, visual imagery, senses and mood

    • rhyming words -

      words that have the same ending sound pattern

    • descriptive words -

      words that give the reader a vivid mental picture (adjectives)

    • similes -

      a figure of speech that compares things using like or as (The class was as quiet as mice.)

    • lyric -

      the verse of a poem or song that contains rhythm and rhyme

    • metaphor -

      a figure of speech that compares two things that are not alike in most ways, but are similar in one important way (Books are ships that take you different places.)

    • imagery -

      mental pictures the reader creates from the author's use of words (language)

    • figurative language -

      metaphors, similies, and personification that creates imagery for the reader

    • symbols -

      a material object or written shape that represents something (picture, shape, letter, number, sign, etc.)

    • represent -

      to stand or act in place of

    • expression -

      reading aloud with feeling, emotion, and inflection (tone or pitch in voice)

    • word choice -

      the writer's (author's) selection of words