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"Poetry for Lunch" Instructional Unit

1. Lesson One: Introduction to Poetry

   1. Student Instructional Wiki with links to Poems and Presentation

      1. Prior Knowledge Response (Will most likely use a Google Form.

         1. What is Poetry? Slideshow

            1. Anticipation Guide Google Form

               1. Poetry Terms Slide Show

2. Lesson Two: Layout and Reading Aloud

   1. Student Instructional Wiki with links to Poems and Presentation

      1. Layout Slide Show

         1. Layout Response Document

            1. Video: Reading Poem Aloud

               1. Response Document (Google Form) Group Reading Rubric

3. Lesson Three: Speaker, Audience, Characters, Themes and Setting

   1. Student Instructional Wiki with links to Poems and Presentation

      1. Prior Knowledge Response Doc (Google Docs) Definition Response Document

         1. Terminology Slide Show

            1. Discussion Doc (Google Form)

      2. Link to literary glossary

4. Lesson Four: Tone and Diction

   1. Student Instructional Wiki with links to Poems and Presentation

      1. Tone and Diction Slide Show

         1. Response Doc (Google Form)

5. Lesson Five: Images and Difficult Passages

   1. Student Instructional Wiki with links to Poems and Presentation

      1. Images Video

         1. Response Doc (Google Form)

            1. Difficult Passages Slideshow

               1. Response Document

6. Lesson Six: Figurative Language

   1. Student Instructional Wiki with links to Poems and Presentation

      1. Response Doc (Google Form)

         1. Figurative Language Video

            1. Fig Lang Slideshow

               1. Response Doc (Google Form)

      2. On-line literary glossary

7. Lesson Seven: Summarizing a Poem

   1. Student Instructional Wiki with links to Poems and Presentation

      1. Summary presentation

         1. Model Summary Slideshow

            1. Model Summary (Done in a Google Document)

               1. Student-created Slideshow

                  1. Student Generated Questions (Google Doc)

                     1. Third Essay (Google Doc)

8. Lesson Eight: Group Discussion

   1. Student Instructional Wiki with links to Poems

      1. Group Discussion of Questions (Google Docs)

         1. Revision of Essay (Google Docs)

            1. Group Discussion of Revised Essays (Google Docs)

1. First Essay

2. Second Essay

3. Sidebar

   1. Links to each of the lessons.

   2. Links to poetry web sites.

      1. Poets.org

      2. Poetry 180

      3. Poetry Archive

   3. Link to Google Documents Site

   4. Reference Links

      1. Literary Terms Glossary

      2. On-line Dictionaries and Thesauri

      3. Multilingual Dictionaries for English Language Learners

4. "Poetry for Lunch" Unit Concept Map for Technology Integration Plan

5. Poetry Terms Matching Test