Unit+3+poetry+2011-2012


 * Unit 3: Poetry 2011-2012**

Essential Questions: How does a poet choose words to create feeling?
 * Start - November 1st End- December 2nd**
 * Reading:**

Big Ideas - Imagery and feeling of the poem/poet

Objectives: Students will be able to make inferences Pre/Post Test:

Essential Questions: What techniques does a poet use to tell a story?
 * Writing:**

Big Ideas - Descriptive words

Writing - Pretest
 * 31 || 1

Reading- What do we know about poetry? Immersion in poetry || 2 Wednesdays- No Formal Lesson || 3 Writing- "I am" Poem

Reading -Main Ideas of Poems Examples "The Homework Guarantee" Page 7 in I like it Here at School || 4 Field Trip to Ballet

Writing - Shared Writing about Ballet || Writing - Minilesson -Beginning to Teach Poetry Writing (Kids' Poems - Pgs. 11 - 14) Independent - Writing the First Poem (pgs.15- 17)
 * 7

Reading - Main Ideas of Poems Examples "Bedtime" in Laughing Giraffes || 8 Dinosaur Field Trip || 9 Wednesdays - No Formal Lesson || 10 No School - Assessment Day || 11 No School - Veteran's Day || Writing - Repetition Poems (Finish I am poems) (I can write like that - pg. 20) "Little Boy Blues" - Love to Langston
 * 14

Language - Favoritepoem.org Talk about language within the poem

Reading - Poetry focus- Jack Prelutsky (read several poems, model, I like this poem because...) Students will find a poem they like and respond to it || 15 Writing - "I love you the purpliest" -Try your own Descriptive Language

Language- Jack Prelutsky poem (talk about language)

Reading - Main idea of a poem || 16 Wednesday - No Formal Lessons || 17 Writing - Descriptive Language (I can write like that - pg. 11-12) Examples "Frog" Page 32 in All the Small Poems and 14 more

Language - Favoritepoem.org Talk about language within the poem

Reading - Main idea of a poem || 18 Writing - Rhyming Poems (I can write like that - pg. 21)

Language- Jack Prelutsky poem (talk about language)

Reading - Visualizing a poem (drawing a picture to go with it) || Writing - Onomatopoeia Poems - brainstorming words that have it (make a chart) (I Can Write Like That - pg. 16)
 * 21 **(We got a little behind,so we are rearranging some of these lessons.)**

Language - Writing Onomatopoeia poems

Reading - Poet focus- Shel Silverstein (read several poems, model, I like this poem because...) Students will find a poem they like and respond to it || 22 Writing - Onomatopoeia Poems (cont)

Language- Shel Silverstein (talk about language)

Reading- Main idea of a poem || Thanksgiving Break || Thanksgiving Break || Thanksgiving Break || Writing - Onomatopoeia Poems - brainstorming words that have it (make a chart) (I Can Write Like That - pg. 16)
 * 28

Language - Favoritepoem.org Talk about language within the poem

Reading- Poet focus- Shel Silverstein (read several poems, model, I like this poem because...) Students will find a poem they like and respond to it || 29 Writing - Alliteration Poems (I Can Write Like That - pg. 9) Pizza the Size of the Sun - Pgs 34 - 35

Language- Shel Silverstein (talk about language)

Reading - || 30 Wednesdays - No Formal Lessons || 1 Balaret Field Trip || 2 Writing - Simile Poems (I Can Write Like That - pg 23)

Reading - || Writing - Simile Poems (cont)
 * 5

Reading- Poet focus - Langston and Tony Medina (read several poems, model, I like this poem because...) Students will find a poem they like and respond to it || 6 Writing - Metaphor Poems (I Can Write Like That - pg. 16) || 7 Wednesdays - No Formal Lessons || 8 Writing - Metaphor Poems (cont) || 9 Writing - Point of View (I Can Write Like That - pg 18) || Writing - Publishing
 * 12

Reading- We are poets (showing off poets within our school) (read several poems, model, I like this poem because...) Students will find a poem they have written and explain why they like it.

Looking at favorite artists (lyrics) and how they are poetry (Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow?) || 13 Writing - Publishing || 14 Wednesdays - No Formal Lessons || 15 Writing - Publishing || 16 Writing - Celebration ||