UNIT PLAN: Poetry Reading & Response
Standards Evidence of Learning
Standard 2:
2.1: Listening and reading for
literary response
• identify significant literary
elements (including
metaphor, symbolism,
foreshadowing, dialect, rhyme,
meter, irony, climax) and use
those elements to interpret
the work
• evaluate literary merit based on
an understanding of the
genre and the literary elements.
• recognize different levels of
meaning
2.2: Speaking and writing for
literary esponse
• read aloud with expression,
conveying the meaning and
mood of a work
• identify significant literary
elements (including
metaphor, symbolism,
foreshadowing, dialect, rhyme,
meter, irony, climax) and use
those elements to interpret
the work
Key Lessons
SWBAT:
1. Recognize poetry from prose
and explain each form’s attributes
2. Identify several forms of poetry,
including but not limited to:
rhymed verse vs. blank verse;
haikus; sonnets; limericks
3. Identify examples of alliteration,
assonance, and figurative
language such as metaphor,
simile, symbolism, personification,
hyperbole, anthropomorphism
4. Recognize and interpret
symbolic imagery
5. Read poetry aloud for literal,
surface meaning as well as read
closely to analyze deeper themes
that communicate broader
messages.
Misconceptions
Guiding Q’s
1. Celebrating Poetry: Students 1. What is a poem?
share portions of their published 2. What are its main
poetry portfolio in a public differences from
setting. prose?
2. Publishing House: Students 3. What techniques
compile their finished, revised and tools do poets use
poems into a published, printed to convey meaning?
“chapbook” 4. How do you read
3. Revision Workshops (a series of and analyze a poem?
classes devoted to strengthening
word and image choices,
sharpening figurative language,
revising line breaks, and
proofreading).
4.-8. Reading and writing based
on models.