Unit Objectives
Students will be able to ...
- identify poetic and stylistic devices an author uses and explain how they contribute to a theme
- write their own poems using stylistic and poetic devices that convey a theme
Essential Question:
|
Final Unit AssessmentStudents will annotate a poem following the close reading steps on How to Understand a Poem and then write a multi-paragraph response identifying the theme of the poem and stylistic devices used to support the theme.
|
A Few Poems We Will Study
How can a poem's form convey meaning?l(la by e.e Cummings
What do you see? Why has the author written the poem this way? "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes"I Am Offering This Poem" by Jimmy Santiago Baca |
How can a poem have multiple interpretations?My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke
How can sound & line breaks contribute to a poem's meaning?The Pool Players. Seven At the Golden Shovel by Gwendolyn Brooks and video of why this poem matters to one person.
Other Poems We will Read
|