English 30-2

Lesson ELA 30-2

Poetry – Blackout to Sonnets Course
Title/Focus March 15th, 2018

PROGRAM OF STUDY OUTCOMES

 2.1.1a. Explain the text creator’s purpose, and assess the suitability of the text to the target
audience in terms of the text creator’ s purpose [for example, assess the suitability of a feature film
targeted to a young adult audience in terms of appropriateness of content]

 2.1.1b. Analyze elements present in the communication situation surrounding a text that contribute
to the creation of the text [for example, whether a text creator is communicating as an individual
or as a member of a particular group]

 2.1.1c. Explain the relationship between text and context in terms of how elements in an
environment can affect the way in which a text is created

 2.1.2e. Relate a text creator’s tone to the moral and ethical stance communicated by a text, when
appropriate

 2.1.2f. Identify figurative language, symbol, imagery and allusions in a text; interpret these devices
in terms of the meaning of a text; assess the contributions made to the meaning of texts by using
these devices; and appreciate the text creator’s craft
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson students will be able to:
1. Apply terms discussed in the context of the poems (analyze)
2. Create a poem based on a passion (creating)

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

 Links
 Cheat Sheet (remind students to pull them out)
 Poems

PREPARATION AND LOGISTICAL CONSIDERATIONS

 Ensure technology is working
 Poems, need to be printed
 Photocopy more know your lingo answer sheets

PROCEDURE
Introduction Time
 Please pull out your cheat sheets, know your lingo and your analysis of a poem
sheet; it will be helpful for you for every class for the poetry section. 5 min

Body Time
If - RK 1) Examine the poem
2) Explain the narrator 10 min
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Gather Yee 3) Examine poem

Rosebuds 4) Explain 10 min

Robin 1) Dead Poets Society video 1:22

10 min
Williams
Blackout 1) Explain black-out poetry and how it is created
Poetry 2) Show the examples
3) Students will create their own using the paper in front of them
30 min
in class
4) Show the step by step instructions

Conclusion Time
 Discuss the subjects students decided to write about. How did they feel
blacking out a large portion of the text? 5 min

Assessment
 Observation of writing
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If—
Rudyard Kipling

(‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies)

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Robert Herrick, 1591 - 1674
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he’s a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he’s to setting.
That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may, go marry;
For having lost but once your prime,
You may forever tarry.

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
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Black Out Poetry

Circle words that stand out to you. Pick ones that mean something.
Find connecting words between your already circled words and circle them.
Create sentences to round out your poem and have a plan for what words you will not have
blacked-out. Final step, black-out all words that are not used for your poem.