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Enduring
Understanding: Poetry
is a reflection of the writer’s as well as the reader’s emotions,
surroundings, and life experiences, and this reflection is always subject
to change with time. Essential
Questions:
Why learn poetry? Knowledge and Skills: Key
Knowledge and Skills: Students
will be able to identify basic literary devices used in a variety of
poems.
Students will be able to analyze poems
for meaning.
Students will be able to compose their
own poems.
Students will understand that meaning
is not always the same for each
reader. Students
will be able to understand that what the reader perceives may not be what
the poet perceived when composing the poem. Content
Standards: Goal
1 (Reading): Reading- Students will read at increasing levels of
complexity for a variety of purposes. Indicator 2: Students will
evaluate patterns of organization, literary elements, and literary devices
within various texts.
Benchmarks: a.
analyze various organizational techniques authors use to engage the
reader and create interest, e.g., flashback, cause and effect, sequence. b.
analyze specific uses of various literary elements and/or devices,
e.g., character, plot, setting; imagery, allusion, onomatopoeia. c.
analyze the effect authors achieve by using a combination of
literary elements and devices, e.g., theme/imagery;
point-of-view/anecdote. Goal
2 (Writing): Students will write effectively for different audiences and
specific purposes. Indicator 2: Students will
use appropriate style, organization, and form in technical, transactional,
creative, and personal writing.
Benchmarks: c.
analyze and use the writing format required for a specific type of
publication. Indicator 3: Students will
use various strategies and techniques to improve writing quality.
Benchmarks: a. analyze the styles of various authors to model effective writing. c. write on a routine basis to gain confidence in personal work and to refine voice and authority as an author.
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