Anything Important 9

SWBAT write a poem using extended metaphor by revising content using peer feedback.

Vocabulary: revision, extended metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, hyperbole

Lesson

• Jumpstart: Think about comments that teachers and classmates have written about your writing. What kind of comments help you improve your writing the most? What kind of comments aren’t helpful at all?

• (4th hour) Write a draft of the 2nd and 3rd stanzas in your poem.

• Have two of your classmates read your poem and fill out a Love Note for you.

• Write a second draft, making significant changes. Be sure to include onomatopoeia, hyperbole, and personification in your poem.

Assignments: We will be typing the final drafts of your poems tomorrow.

SWBAT write a poem using extended metaphor by brainstorming ideas.

Vocabulary: extended metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, hyperbole

Lesson

• Jumpstart: Read the excerpts from two songs (Wilco and Death Cab for Cutie). Summarize the meaning of the stanzas and explain how they are examples of personification.

• Model Poem #2 ”Marshall”

  • Complete Part 3, both A and B. Brainstorm ideas that compare fruits and vegetables to people. Decide which fruit or vegetable you are most like, and compare yourself to it. Consider your physical characteristics, your personality traits, and how you act.

  • Brainstorm ideas for using personification, onomatopoeia, and hyperbole in your poem.

  • Write a rough draft of your poem.

Assignments: Tomorrow we will be revising our poems. Wednesday, we will type our final drafts.

SWBAT analyze a poem’s meaning and use of extended metaphor by actively reading and writing annotations.

SWBAT write a poem using extended metaphor by prewriting.

Lesson

Yesterday we completed Parts 1 and 2 on Model Poem #2.

• Jumpstart: If you were a fruit or vegetable, what would you be? Why?

• Model Poem #2: “Marshall”

  • (4th only) Part 2: Active Reading: Read the poem, two to three stanzas at a time. Reflect on the given questions for those stanzas.

  • Part 3: Prewriting: Complete parts A and B. Generate ideas for any fruit or vegetable and the traits that it might have were it a person. Choose one fruit or vegetable to compare yourself to in part B.

  • Part 4: Write a rough draft of your own poem.

Tomorrow: Freshman Pride!

SWBAT analyze a poem’s meaning and use of extended metaphor by actively reading and writing annotations.

Vocabulary: (extended) metaphor,  hyperbole, personification, onomatopoeia, carapace, homage, horny, lager, broad bean, Burlotti bean

Lesson

Yesterday: Model Poem #1 was due (active reading, draft, and typed final draft)

• Jumpstart: Using imagery, describe your bean. If your bean was a person, what kind of personality would it have?

• Model Poem #2

  • Part 1: Vocabulary Game: Rivet/Hangman

  • Part 2: Active Reading

    • Read the poem aloud once to get the general gist of the poem.

    • Read the poem second time, looking for alliteration, personification, onomatopoeia, and hyperbole.

    • Read the poem, two to three stanzas at a time, and reflect on the given questions for those stanzas.

Tomorrow: Model Poem #1, Parts 3 and 4