Unit Concept or Theme: Poetry Grade level: 8 Length of unit: Stage 1 Desired Results Meaning Enduring Understandings/Generalizations: Essential

l Questions:

Poetry can be appreciated and expressed through many different What is poetry? forms. What are some types poetry? Poetry is a way to express feeling and tell stories through Who qualifies as a poet? writing. Poetry is more than rhymes; it includes rhythm, shape, and language. Poets are more than just old white guys. Songwriters can be poets. Mathematicians who write riddles can be poets. Knowledge & Skills Acquisition Learning Goals: (e.g., Iowa/Common core standards.) ANALYZE HOW visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem). EXPLAIN HOW a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem. DETERMINE THE MEANING OF WORDS and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes. DETERMINE A THEME OF A STORY, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text. COMPARE AND CONTRAST stories in the same genre (e.g., mysteries and adventure stories) on their approaches to similar themes and topics.

Students will know Poem Types and Vocabulary: o Haikus, Limericks, ballads, song lyrics, sonnets, acrostics, shape, riddles, rhyming versus nonrhyming, (ab ab ba ba), versus, refrains, chorus Famous Poets: o Maya Angelou o Robert Frost o E.E. Cummings o Eminem (rappers in general) o The Beatles (songwriters in general) o Carl Sanburg

Students will be able to Students will be able to write a haiku. Students will be able to write a limerick. Students will be able to write a ballad. Students will be able to write song lyrics. Students will be able to write a sonnet. Students will be able to write an acrostic poem. Students will be able to appreciate poetry for its purpose of selfexpression and storytelling. . Students will be able to analyze language in a poem. Students will be able to consider themselves poets

Resources/Materials: Poetry Packet

Stage 2 Evidence (Assessment) Types of assessment: Selected-Response (tests, quizzes); Personal Communication (interview, oral exam, discussion); Written Response (short constructed response questions, entrance/exit slips, essays); Performance Assessment (role-play, Simulation, labs, dramatization) Pre-assessment: Students will write a stream of consciousness paper. Each kid will write whatever comes to mind for five minutes straight. Then students will go through and cross out unnecessary words, reformat what is left and create a poem. In class discussion on poetry Pre-unit quiz

Formative Assessment: Students will have annotated poem worksheets in their packets to turn in at the end of the unit Students will turn in their journals at the end of the unit so the teacher can examine their writing. Students will have a daily quick write. Students will have an option to simply answer the guided questions or answer it in the form of a poem. This will allow students to choose their own difficulty level. No matter what all students will get a higher order question and will be challenged but some students will have the option to expand upon their learning. Students will create non-sensical words as a way to appreciate language Students will write a poem of at least 3 stanzas or they will write a song Students will create an acrostic poem of their full name Students will write a where I am from poem Students will select a song to read in front of the class Students will write 3 versus of a song

Summative Assessment: Students will turn in a poem for a class literary magazine. Each student will enter three different types of submissions and the teacher will choose between the three entered into the class.

Stage 3 Learning Plan

Use these questions to help guide the creation of your learning plan. How many days will your unit last? How will you sequence/organize learning your unit in an iterative/incremental way? What opening activity will you use to hook or engage student learning in this unit? How will you ensure students know where the learning is headed in this unit? How will you introduce students to your Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions? At what points will you have your students re-consider these understandings/questions? How will you sequence/organize your assessments in an iterative/incremental way? How will you foster critical thinking and problem solving in this unit? Self-reflection? Curiosity and imagination? Collaboration? Innovation/Creativity? Adaptive thinking? Accessing and analyzing information? Oral and written communication? What active instructional strategies/learning activities might you use to engage students in learning (You need to use at least 3 different types of instructional strategies)? How will you differentiate for individual student needs in this unit? What differentiated instructional strategies will you use (e.g., student choice, flexible grouping, jigsaw, choice boards/menus, tiered assignments, anchor activities, etc.)? How will you use technology to support and facilitate student learning in this unit?