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Title: Over the River and Through the Woods:Prepositional Poetry and Scavenger Hunt Fun on Internet with
Locating Poetic Tools |
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Curriculum Focus: Language Arts |
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Grade-Level Span: 5th Grade |
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Timeline: |
Purpose:(What will this activity accomplish?)
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Standard: Identify
prepositions, use appropriate mechanics, use poetic devices (alliteration,
metaphor, simile, idioms, assonance, onomatopoeia,
repetition, rhythm, and end rhyme). After successful
completion of this lesson, the students will be able to identify and use
prepositions correctly in written work.
They will also be able to identify poetic devices, specifically those
mentioned above in the Cobb Standards, and will use these devices correctly
in written work. Through the use of
these poetic devices, students will see how their writing can be more
descriptive and "visual" for their audience. |
Description:(Give a short summary of the lesson)
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This lesson plan
develops students knowledge of poetic tools and devices as well as teaching
them about prepositions and their use. |
Preparation:(What tasks are necessary in order to carry out the activity)
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Begin by identifying
poetry sites that are appropriate for children and contain a number of the
different poetic devices that you have taught the students. (I found most of my sites by doing a
search in Yahooligans on "poetry.") Then, bookmark these sites for the students or write down the
addresses for them to use. Create a
poetry scavenger hunt sheet from the poems on these sites. My scavenger hunt sheet and list of sites
is attached and may be used if they are still current. After this activity, which we completed on
laptop computers in our classroom,
(but could also be done in a computer lab), we had a lesson on prepositions
from our language book. We then used
our classroom computers and worked in pairs using the Inspiration software
program to make a web of all of the prepositions we could find. I then modeled a Preposition Poem for the
class on the overhead and gave them the guidelines and criteria sheet for
their own Preposition Poem. They
worked in pairs to write a rough draft first and then used this to create
their final draft on Student Writing Center. |
Pre-requisite skills: (List any tasks that students will need in order
to complete this lesson)
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Procedure:
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1. After completing a
unit of study on prepositions and poetic devices, the students will write
Preposition Poems. 2. The students will
begin by searching the Internet bookmarked sites to find examples of the
poetic devices they learned and to read other student's poems. (See Scavenger Hunt supplement.) 3. The students will
select favorite sports as the subject of their poem. 4. Pairs of students
will work together based on similar sports’ interests to create their poems. 5. The teacher will
model a preposition poem together for them in class. 6. The students will
then use Inspiration together to create a web of known prepositions. 7. The students will then use their Inspiration
preposition web and their knowledge of poetic devices to create their own
poem on Student Writing Center sign format.
They will use the attached format and criteria sheet as guidelines. 8. As a follow-up
activity, the pairs of students will work together to create a multimedia
presentation using Power Point about poetic devices. Each pair will complete one card using one
of the following topics for their card: alliteration, idioms, assonance,
metaphor, similes, repetition, onomatopoeia, rhythm, and end rhyme. These 9 topics will be divided among 18
students. Other students will create
a title card and a concluding card for the presentation. Share presentations with each other. 9. Bind poems together
into a Preposition Poem book. |
Tools and Resources: (List all Web sites,specific software and
hardware, and other needs)
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Language Arts Handbook
and list of poetic devices with samples Computer with Inspiration,
Student Writing Center, and Power
Point software installed Computer with Internet
Access Printer and Paper Sample of preposition
poem Guidelines and
criteria sheet for preposition poem |
Assessment: (How will you assess the students’ learning? If you have a rubric, include it.)
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The teacher will
assess the print copy of the preposition poem to see if the criteria were
met. The teacher will check the
Scavenger Hunt sheet to see if poetic tools were correctly identified. |
Adaptations:
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Guidelines for Your Prepositional Poem 1. Use Student Writing Center sign format 2. Select wide format (not tall) 3. Select a Font (either Jester or Comic Sans) 4. Title should be first and it should be in bold and
a larger font size. 5. Font size for poem text should be 20 or so to start
and then adjusted at the end to fit your whole page. 6. You must use at least 8 prepositional phrases. 7. No prepositions can be repeated. 8. Each line should start with a preposition and it
should be capitalized. 9. Use at least 4 different "poetic
devices." 10. Your poem does not need to rhyme. 11. Do a spell check at the end and check your poem
for mechanical errors. 12. Add one appropriate picture to your poem. 13. Include both of your names at the end. 14. Print your poem and save it to your
disc. POETRY SCAVENGER HUNT Search the identified poetry sites to find links to answers to these questions. Poetry For Kids site 1. What behaviors can the poet of the poem “At Standing
Still I’m Unsurpassed” do exceptionally well? 2. Give 2 examples of
poem titles from The Funny Forty that are alliterations? 3. What is the one thing
that the poet in the poem “The One Thing That I Won’t Eat” won’t eat? 4. What is the one thing that the poet in “What To
Remember In School” says is really important to remember? 5.
If you have read all
of the poems on this web page where can you go to read more poems by this
same poet? Poetry Lane site 1. In the poem “Gerritsen Beach” what is being
personified? 2. In the poem “The Monarch Cat” what simile is used? 3. What did Dorothy do to Billy Boyd in the poem
“Billy Boyd?” 4. What is the theme of the poem “Franklin
Roosevelt?” 5. What are 3 of life’s pleasures according to the
poem “Life’s Little Pleasures?” Fourth Grade Poetry Project 1. What are 3 different types of pattern poems that
these children wrote? 2. Describe what “Name Poems” do or tell about? 3. What does Adam Sharpe not understand in the
pattern poem “I Do Not Understand?” 4. What color is happiness according to Amanda
McClain in the “Emotions” pattern poem? 5. What does Joy Gordon love to do in the “5 W’s”
pattern poem? Giggle Poetry site 1. In the poem “Help Wanted” what happened to Donder? 2. In the same poem what does it say you need to be
able to do in order to be a good reindeer? 3. From the link Poetry Class in this site, find out
the rhyming pattern of a limerick? 4. Complete one of the fill in the blanks “epitaph”
poems about Sam Shay? 5. How many characters are there in the play poem
“Turn Off The TV!” ?” Yahooligans searches From the Yahooligans main
page do searches for the following information. 1. Do a search on “haiku.” Give a web address for a page with Halloween haikus. 2. Do a search on the poet Langston Hughes. Go into the biographical link and write 2
facts that you learned about him. 3. Do a search on the poet Shel Silverstein. Write the title of a poem by him that you
especially enjoy. 4. Do a search on the poet Edgar Allen Poe. Go into the link on his life. What is he given credit for creating? Do a search on Ezra
Keats. What popular book/poem is he
famous for writing? |