Weekly plan:

Monday: Discuss form and speaker in poetry. Write a poem in the shape of your favorite item.
Tuesday: Discuss sound in poetry including rhyme, rhythm, repetition, alliteration, and onomatopoeia.
Find the rhyme, rhythm, repetition, alliteration, and onomatopoeia in different poems.
Wednesday: Discus imagery and figurative language including simile, metaphor, analogy, and
personification. Change similes to metaphors. Find different analogies and figure out how they relate.
Thursday: put it all together. Students will write a poem about their favorite holiday season. They are
to use all the key elements of poetry in their poem.
Friday: Field trip

Lesson: Sounds in Poetry

Nebraska State Standards
LA 7.1.6.c Analyze the author's use of literary devices (e.g., simile, metaphor, personification, idiom,
oxymoron, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia, analogy, tone, mood).
Objective: Students will be able to identify and analyze the use of rhyme, rhythm, repetition,
alliterations, and onomatopoeia while reading or listening to poetry.
Rationale: In order to read poetry correctly, you need to know the key elements. Knowing how a poem
is supposed to sound, helps to know how to read the poem correctly.
Differentiation: Students will be able to either look in their books, or on the board to aid in their
reading of the text.
Materials:
Powerpoint of Key elements, Text book, Pencil/Pen, Paper, Book Halloween Party
Procedures:
Anticipatory Set: Yesterday we introduced some key elements to poetry. Does anyone remember what
they were? (Form, and Speaker)
What are the form and speaker of a poem? (Form is how the poem is structured: Structured or Free
Verse. Speaker is the voice of the poem)
Today we are going to talk about how the poem can sound.
Instructional Process: When I say sound, what do you think of? What sounds do we hear in a poem?
Usually when we read a poem, we hear the rhyme and rhythm of a poem. This is usually in a structured
poem.
Rhyme is the repetition of similar sounds at the ends of words. You may also hear this called end rhyme.
Free verse poems do not usually have end rhymes.
Look at the poem by Langston Hughes, To You. What words do you see that rhyme? (Soul/whole,
free/me)
Rhythm of a poem is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line. They are usually
marked with an apostrophe over the top of the stressed syllable, and a small u over the unstressed
syllable. Look at the excerpt from Ernest Lawrence Thayers Casey at the Bat. As to you see the lines
usually start with an unstressed syllable, and end with stressed syllables. You can tell if you are reading it
correctly, because if you read it backwards, it will not sound right. (Read passage correctly, then
incorrectly) Can you hear the difference? Which one sounds better?
Repetition is used with words, sounds, phrases, or whole lines and is used to emphasize an idea or
create a certain feeling. Sometimes using alliteration helps aide in this.
Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. Like, Sally sells sea shells
by the sea shore.
The last sound that we are going to cover is onomatopoeia. This is the use of words whose sounds
suggest their meanings, such as crack, boom, and bang.

I am going to read the book Halloween Party. This book is written in poem form. I want you all to
listen to the words and write down any sounds that you hear. Set your notes up like the slide to better
organize your sounds. Listen for rhyme, repetition, onomatopoeia, and alliterations. When I am done
reading the book, I will read it another time to make sure that you were able to hear all the sounds.
After that, you all will have the opportunity to come up to the board and write down some examples of
each category.
Read book twice.
Have students come up to the board and write down answers
Assessments:
Write down the rhyme, repetition, onomatopoeia, and alliteration of the poems on the last slide. These
will be on Dropbox if needed. There is a bonus for those who would like some extra credit.
Closure: Tomorrow we will be discussing imagery and figurative language in poetry. That will wrap up
the Key elements of poetry.