Unit+Plan


 * Unit Title: Understanding the World Through Poetry **


 * Unit’s Major Focus: What is Poetry? How does Poetry affect our Culture and our World? **

**Unit Proposal**: **Main Texts**-“Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou “Dinner Guest: Me” by Langston Hughes “Beautiful City” by Lord Alfred Tennyson “Languages” by Carl Sandburg “No Images” by William Waring Cuny “Where I’m From” template **Supplementary Texts**: “Knock Knock” Daniel Beaty (Slam Poetry) “Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats

The purpose of this unit is to acquaint students with the major concepts of poetry and culture. In a twenty first century world it is important that students are able to see the world in a broader spectrum and understand culture as more than just ethnicity or creed. Culture unites all of us together in some form or another and teaches us fundamental lessons regarding the human condition. As people we all share basic commonalities and this unit will help students connect with the larger world. Culture is the major theme of this unit because it is something that students need to understand. Many students come to school each day and go through the motions of “doing school” which means that they turn in homework, raise their hand at appropriate times, and attempt to look engaged. However, many times this is all that students accomplish at school; the student profile. The meaning of learning can change for a student when they finally find themselves in a lesson and connect in a more meaningful way. Looking at the meaning of culture through artistic expression, such as poetry, has the potential to force students to reflect on their own life and the life of others. Why should students care about culture? It is simple to say that they will care because it affects their life and because each of us are fundamentally the same; we all want to feel safe, want to be loved and supported, and have the same basic needs to survive. Students can hear all of these things but that does not mean that they will actually make these connections any deeper than what they are. Carol Clark, author of Why Write Poetry states, “Topics such as identity, discovery, family relationships, survival, change, morality, hopes, and dreams are of primary interest to young people searching for self-awareness in an uncertain world. By addressing such topics, poetry often has the ability to reach the heart of the young reader with more intensity and immediacy than some of its prose counterparts” (1). How we identify ourselves within our culture and from our culture is so important to adolescents and because these topics are of interest they are more susceptible to engage with the lyrics of poetry. Moreover, from a teaching prospective we want students to reflect on what makes their culture unique, feel the same prejudices as another culture, rebel against close minded intolerance, and see that there is beauty and grace in every person; in every culture. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Poetry is the foundation of this unit because it is developed in emotion. More than anything, this unit asks students to connect with the poetry on a humanistic level. According to <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Bridging English,__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a poetry unit can, “bridge the personal world of the student with the possibities that lie within the poem” (176). With that being said, it is also important that students are learning the different stylistic techniques of poetry. It is significant for students to become familiar with the different schemes of poetry such as allusions, similes, metaphors, repetition and rhyme schemes, and so on. Not only are these schemes in accordance with state standards, but they reveal intentions of the author and sometimes supply a deeper understanding of the text. An analysis of a metaphor or simile can unravel themes or messages so intricate within the poem and connect students in a way they could not have connected with just a superficial surface level reading of the poem. Moreover, this unit is about more than just reading poetry- it is about putting the elements of poetry to practice. Students will be attempting to write their own original poems about their life and culture in hopes that this unit will be about more than just schoolwork; it will be about life. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The main texts that ground this unit reinforce the goal of a realistic and personal unit. There are so many poems that could be taught in this unit so choosing a few to really analyze was difficult. However, the poems that are included in this unit all do one thing; they excite, they make you angry, they make you sympathize, they make you feel the same. Each of these poems were designed to create an emotion in the classroom. Students should stand up and say that “It is not fair!” that a black woman in “No Images” by William Waring Cuney feels that she is not beautiful and less than everyone else because of her skin color. Students should say “I have felt judged like that” no matter what color or heritage they come from because we have all felt judged for different reasons. The texts and the connections student will make is the reason that this unit is important. The more scholastic approaches of the lesson are also important but the bigger understandings that help students build an identity within their culture and the culture of others is what makes everything in this unit come together. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As in any classroom, all of the students come from different walks of life and it is important that a unit can benefit all students despite their background. Thus, each student in the classroom will be able to connect with this unit because it is a personal unit and encourages diversity. Of course, each student will connect with the unit in individual ways. For example, Savannah is one student in the classroom and she is typically a high achieving student. Under normal circumstances, Savannah would just accomplish assignments for completion but this unit will force Savannah to connect with real life material. Savannah will grapple with her own culture and other’s culture which will provide her with a deeper level of understanding. Furthermore, Savannah has always attributed shallow and superficial connections with material; enough to make passing grades. Instead of memorization or rote skills, Savannah will apply her beliefs, explorations, and critical thinking skills to the unit. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jackson comes from a different lifestyle than Savannah; a poverty stricken household with parents who are uninvolved in his schoolwork. Jackson wishes to be engaged in classroom activities but has a problem with connecting schoolwork with real life. Jackson does not see how the role of school can help him face the struggles that reality brings to him and his family. This unit will help Jackson reflect and come to terms with life, culture, and real world problems. Many of the texts that have been selected for this unit address real world problems about culture. Moreover, this unit asks students to write about their own culture and this type of reflection may help Jackson find a bigger purpose in schoolwork. One of the biggest reasons that this unit is important is because it provides purpose and meaning for students who can’t normally find this in the more generic schoolwork. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Another student who will be participating in this unit is Joseph. Joseph comes from a very unique lifestyle; foster household. Not only does Joseph not have a stable household, but he has been diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder. One way to engage Joseph is through writing activities and this unit is full of writing opportunities. Joseph will have plenty of chances to write about things he is interested and this may act as a stepping stone for getting Joseph involved in further classroom activities. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Isabella is another student undergoing this unit plan. Isabella has just recently learned English and while she has been successful, she is still struggling. Poetry is an artistic adaptation of the English language so someone like Isabella will benefit greatly from exploring and arranging the language into her own personal poetry. Also unlike an essay or research paper, there is not as much pressure in poetry to have perfect grammar or word choice. Poetry is about the conveying of emotions and Isabella will be given the opportunity to become more comfortable with the language in a less stressful environment. Also, Isabella should be more engaged in the text because the reading is significantly shorter than short stories or other pieces of literature.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">__Rationale:__ **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">__Class Profiles:__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Savannah: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Savannah is a very high achieving student. She comes from a well off family who values education and expects Savannah to enroll in an Ivy League school. While Savannah is very intelligent and intrinsically motivated she struggles with the stress of school. She has a hard time accepting grades lower than an “A” and she cares more about her grade point average than the actual learning process. During class, Savannah is the first person to raise her hand to answer a question but she tends to overshadow the other students. When Savannah does not get an answer correct she shuts down for the remainder of class and feels incompetent.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jackson: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jackson is a struggling learner from a poverty stricken household. While Jackson tries to be attentive in class, his home life distracts him from his school work. It is hard for Jackson to relate school to real life and he finds no true purpose in school. Sometimes Jackson gets off task during lessons and acts disruptively from being bored with class. Jackson will call out during the middle of class to

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Joseph: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Joseph is a 17-year-old, Caucasian, 11th grader. He lives with his foster family who has four of their own biological children as well as three other foster children. Joseph has been in and out of eight foster homes since he was 5-years-old. He has been diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder. Joseph says he hates school, although he is very intelligent. He often chooses not to do required work. He secludes himself from the rest of the class and only seems interested in joining the lesson when there is a writing activity involved. He has just recently started meeting with the school counselor once a week to discuss future goals and the emotional impact of his family life.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Isabella: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Isabella is a 19-year-old, Puerto Rican, 11th grader, who moved to the United States last year with her mother. Isabella and her mother currently live with her aunt, who also houses 8 other family members. The house they reside in has 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom, and the family is under the poverty line. Isabella learned English quickly, however she still struggles with some vocabulary and grammatical concepts. She is excited about her new life as an American. Isabella struggles academically, especially in the realm of test-taking, however, she is willing to accept after-school tutoring provided by the teacher. Her work ethic is commendable and she is making huge strides.

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Unit Goals and Understandings:__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Essential Questions:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do we see “our world” differently than the world as a whole?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What aspects connect us a people?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is culture? Is it race, ethnicity, creed, or more?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Where do we belong in society? In our own culture?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What are the some of the different elements of poetry? i.e consonance, allusions, metaphors, rhyme sequence, etc.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do the elements of poetry affect a poem? Do they create better understandings? emphasize certain points?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In what way do we see culture in the poetry we read in class?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Is poetry universal? More simply, does poetry capture the feelings, common emotions, and events we experience as people?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do we write our own original poetry?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Unit Level Questions:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is the definition of these poetic elements?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">stanza
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">couplet
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">mood
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">imagery
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">metaphor
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">personification
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">simile
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">symbol
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">alliteration
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">assonance
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">onomatopoeia
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">refrain
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">repetition
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">rhyme scheme
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do these poetic elements specifically affect the poetry in this unit?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How are these elements used in our original poetry?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What cultures are specifically reflected in the poetry in this unit?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is the structure of an Ode (rhyme schemes, stanzas, line limitations)?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Unit Goals:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will be able to....
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">demonstrate understanding of culture through real life connections between the different poems included in the unit.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">define culture
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">show how culture is reflected in the different poems included in this unit
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">write their own original poetry
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">challenge societal norms and prejudices through connections and explorations of text
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reflect on specific poetry featured in this unit
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">identify poetic elements within text and explain their affect on the text itself.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Themes:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Our World” vs. “The World”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Awareness and Tolerance
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gender/ Class Roles

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Big Understandings:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will analyze and identify their own cultural identities
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will understand, apply, and analyze different elements of poetry.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will display understanding of other cultures outside of their own.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will understand how culture is established within a poem.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__State Standards:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//1.1.11.B// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Use context clues, knowledge of root words, and word origins as well as reference sources to <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> decode and understand new words. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//1.2.11.C// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Examine the author’s explicit and implicit bias and assumptions, beliefs about a subject, use of fact <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and/or opinion, and/or the author’s argument or defense of a claim as related to essential and nonessential <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> information. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//1.3.11.D// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Analyze the effectiveness, in terms of literary quality, of the author’s use of literary devices, (e.g., personification, simile, alliteration, symbolism, metaphor, hyperbole,imagery, allusion, satire, foreshadowing, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> flashback, irony) in various genres. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//1.4.11.A// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Write poems, short stories, and plays: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//1.4.11.B// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Write complex informational pieces (e.g. research papers, literary analytical essays, evaluations) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//1.5.11.D.// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Write with an understanding of style using a variety of sentence structures and descriptive word choices. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Create tone and voice through the use of precise language. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//1.5.11.F// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Use grade appropriate conventions of language when writing and editing. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//1.6.11.A// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Listen critically and respond to others in small and large group situations <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//1.6.11.B.// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Demonstrate awareness of audience using appropriate volume and clarity in formal speaking <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> presentations. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 1.7.11 A. Evaluate as a reader how an author’s choice of words advances the theme or purpose of a <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> work. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 1.8.11 B Synthesize information gathered from a variety of sources, including technology and one’s own research, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and evaluate information for its relevance to the research question.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Apply various organizational methods.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Include literary elements and devices.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Construct a strong story line with illustrative details.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Include elements of style in writing to develop a personal style.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Spell all words correctly.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Use capital letters correctly.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Punctuate correctly
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use correct grammar and sentence formation.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Respond with grade level appropriate questions, ideas, information or opinions.

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Assessments:__ ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Rationale for Assessments:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> When developing the different assessments for this unit, it became extremely important that they were reflective of student involvement. Students should feel engaged with the assessments and grapple with the big understandings of each assignment. The Glogster presentation is connected with the hook of the unit and it is designed to get students better acquainted with technology which is a goal in the development of twenty first students. The presentation also asks students to make specific connections within our own culture and music. It is really important that students see the broader meaning of the text, in this case poetry, and one of the best ways to do this is to have students analyze something they are already comfortable with; music. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Other assessments that will occur throughout the unit will be the “Where I’m From” poem, a poetry notebook, a short collection of reflection essays, and short poetry quizzes. These assessments will help me, as the teacher, to gage student understanding and interest. The reflection essays will ask students to comment on how their culture is reflected in the selected text, what they like about the poetry, and other general opinions or connections. The quizzes will ask students to make explicit connections with different elements of poetry and major connections that student should be making from the text. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The summative assessments chosen for this unit are very important and a great indicator of the progress students have made throughout the unit. The synthesis papers asks students to apply all of the the things they have learned throughout the semester and analyze a piece of poetry for different seams of culture and literary elements. The poetry portfolio is a showcase of what students completed throughout the unit. These assessments were chosen because they seem to be truly reflective of what students have learned throughout the semester. Also, each assessment challenges students to think and apply the different aspects addressed in the unit. I thought that the application of all the chosen assessments was more significant than a final exam.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Assessment:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Glogster Presentation


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Poetry Notebook


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Where I’m From Poem”


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ode to Culture


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Poetry Elements Quiz


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Short Reflection Essays


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Poetry Portfolio


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Synthesis Paper || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Essential Questions:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What are the some of the different elements of poetry? i.e consonance, allusions, metaphors, rhyme sequence, etc. What is culture? Is it race, ethnicity, creed, or more?


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do we write our own original poetry?/How do we see “our world” differently than the world as a whole? Where do we belong in society? In our own culture?


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do we write our own original poetry? How do we see “our world” differently than the world as a whole?/Where do we belong in society? In our own culture?


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do we write our own original poetry? How do we see “our world differently than the world as a whole? What is the rhyme scheme and structure of an Ode?


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What are the some of the different elements of poetry? i.e consonance, allusions, metaphors, rhyme sequence, etc.. How do the elements of poetry affect a poem? Do they create better understandings? emphasize certain points?


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do we see “our world” differently than the world as a whole?/What aspects connect us a people? What is culture? Is it race, ethnicity, creed, or more? In what way do we see culture in the poetry we read in class?


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Where do we belong in society? In our own culture? What are the some of the different elements of poetry? i.e consonance, allusions, metaphors, rhyme sequence, etc. How do the elements of poetry affect a poem? Do they create better understandings? emphasize certain points? In what way do we see culture in the poetry we read in class?


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do we see “our world” differently than the world as a whole? What aspects connect us a people? What are the some of the different elements of poetry? i.e consonance, allusions, metaphors, rhyme sequence, etc. How do the elements of poetry affect a poem? Do they create better understandings? emphasize certain points? ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Poetry Notebook- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Will be collected throughout the unit to check for completeness. At the end of the unit students will choose 3-5 of their original poems to include in their poetry portfolio. Otherwise, this notebook should act as a safe place for students to experiment with their own writing.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Formative Assessments:__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Where I’m From” Poem <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This will act as a stepping stone for students to experience with more original poetry. This will also be collected and included in the poetry portfolio at the end of the semester.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Odes to Culture <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will be writing their own original Ode to celebrate who they are as a person. Their ode should dismiss and counter the different prejudices and stereotypes that people align with their culture. In addition, students can counter the way individuals perceive them. The ode should follow the template structure and instructions for full credit.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ode Checklist (Grading Instrument) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Is the student’s Ode 10 lines? (3pts) _ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Did the students follow the rhyme scheme supplied? (3pts) _ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Is the student’s Ode 3 stanzas (3pts) __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Did their evidence that the student attempted to counter prejudices associated with their culture? (3pts) ___ __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Did the student turn their assignment in on the day of their presentation? (3pts) __

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> __/ 15 pts.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Poetry Elements Quiz <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This quiz will assess students understanding of the specific poetic elements that students should be aware of in this unit. Students will be asked to use these elements within their own original poetry so it is fundamental that they understand what the elements are and what they do for a poem, stylistically.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Short Reflection Essays <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">These essays will be compiled in and out of class and will be collected in the poetry portfolio. The reflections should showcase student opinions on different poems read in class and overall feelings of poetry. The essays will be assessed based on thoroughness and completeness.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Glogster Presentation <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">see Hook (Day 6 and 7 of Teaching and Learning Experiences) for detailed instructions

<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Glogster Rubric:
 * <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Category: || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4 || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3 || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2 || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1 ||
 * <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Guidelines || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All guidelines set forth in student worksheet were not only met but done in an exemplar fashion || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Guidelines were met set forth in the student worksheet. || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Not all guidelines set forth in the student worksheet were addressed. || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Few to none of the guidelines set forth in the student worksheet were met. ||
 * <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Research || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Research was clear, relevant, and well developed. The research was also supported through the Glogster. || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Research was evident but not fully developed. Research was evident and supported through the Glogster. || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Research was not evident but not clear. The research was supported through the Glogster. || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Research was not relevant or not supported through the Glogster. ||
 * <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oral Presentation || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student was involved in the presentation and had a firm understanding of topic. || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student was somewhat involved in the presentation but showed understanding of the topic. || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student had little involvement in presentation and showed mild understanding of the topic. || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student had hardly and involvement in presentation and little understanding in topic. ||
 * <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Creativity/Visual Appeal || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student demonstrated exemplar clarity, neatness, creativity, and relevance in the creation of their Glogster. || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student’s Glogster was mostly clear, neat, creative, and relevant, but showed minor mistakes (spelling, grammar, messiness.) || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student attempted to have a clear, neat, creative, relevant Glogster but had multiple mistakes. || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student’s Glogster had multiple mistakes and was not very relevant or creative. ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This assessment should be completed by the day of your presentation
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student Self Assessment: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students should be able to reflect on their own work that they contributed to the group work (This is a self assessment that is completed at the end of the Glogster presentation)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What specific roles did you perform within your group?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How did you contribute to group work?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Did you complete all responsibilities in the group role you took on?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How did you work with other group members?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Did you meet all criteria on the above rubric and guidelines?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What could you have done differently?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Is there anything I could have done, as the teacher, to help you understand this project more efficiently?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Poetry Portfolio: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A collection of assignments completed throughout the unit-
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Summative Assessments:__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Reflection Letter-__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The portfolio should begin with a letter to the teacher that discusses how the student has evolved throughout the unit. Students should elaborate on what their original dispositions were about poetry, how did these opinions changes, whether reading and poetry will be something they continue to pursue outside of this unit, and how the poetry analyzed in this unit affected their notion and beliefs of culture.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__“Where I’m From” poem-__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> students should include their “Where I’m from” poem in their portfolio with a short reflection. The reflection should be a paragraph explaining their thoughts about the creation of this poem. Did they enjoy writing the poem? Was this their first experience writing a poem?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Poetry Notebook-__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3-5 original poems that were included in the poetry notebook. Each poem they choose to include should have a brief rationale that explains why the student chose this poem to include.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Reflection Essays-__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Throughout the unit students will be completing reflections in and outside of the classroom about poetry as a whole and the specific poems we read in class. These reflection essays should be compiled and placed in this portfolio.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Synthesis Paper <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will have to analyze a poem of their choice that depicts culture in some capacity. They will then be required to put together a paper explaining the important aspects of the poem and why they found these things important. Students should explain their findings and support their anlysis with three scholarly sources. Lastly, student should explain how the culture is reflected in the poem and how they personally connected with the poem..

<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Synthesis Paper Rubric
 * <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Category: || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Excellent- 4 || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Proficient- 3 || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Satisfactory-2 || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Needs Work- 1 ||
 * <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Content || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The analysis is well developed- argument is supported with scholarly research,the depiction of culture is well defined. || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The analysis is developed but needed more scholarly research or the depiction of culture was not clearly defined. || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The analysis is in progress but needs work. Scholarly research may be scarce and evidence of culture is somewhat apparent. || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The analysis is not well developed and needs more research and support. Evidence of culture is not well developed. ||
 * <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Research || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There are at least 3 scholarly sources that fully support the student’s analysis. || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There are at least 3 scholarly sources but one does not support or add to the student’s analysis. || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There are at least three scholarly sources but more than one source does not add or support the student’s analysis. || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There are not at least three scholarly sources. ||
 * <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Personal Connection || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students showed how culture is reflected in the analysis and then expanded by showing their own personal connections in a well thought out manner. || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students showed how culture is reflected in the analysis and provided some personal connections with the poem. || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students showed how culture is reflected in the analysis and attempted to make a few personal connections with the poem. || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students showed how culture is reflected in the analysis but did not make any personal connections. ||
 * <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Conventions || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The paper did not show any major grammatical mistakes. Stylistically, the paper was well thought out. || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The paper has a few minor grammatical mistakes but was well thought out stylistically. || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The paper has many grammatical mistakes and the style of the paper was well done, but needed more work. || <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The paper has many mistakes and the style of the paper needs a lot of work. ||

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Learning and Teaching Experiences:__ ** //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The first part of this unit is an introduction to the classroom, as a whole. Days 1-5 get students acquainted with classroom principles and procedures. Moreover, these days will allow students to present who they are to their classmates and the teacher. Students will be asked to describe themselves and their classmates in various activities. Other than introducing students, the first week of class will set the stage for the rest of the unit. By day 5, students will understand where the unit is headed and what will be discussed, thematically. //

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Day 1 is all about learning the names of students and reviewing class rules.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Day 1: “Welcome!”__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Putting a Name with a Face:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When students come into the classroom, ask them to pick a popsicle stick from a large jar. Each popsicle stick as a colored “X’ on one side. The color on the stick will place students in their assigned seats for the unit.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After each student has taken their new seat, supply each student with a piece of oak tag paper. Ask each student to fold their piece of paper long ways and write their first name (or what they wish to be called if they have a nickname) across the piece of paper. In the upper right hand corner students should write an adjective that describes them. However, the adjective must begin with the first letter of their name. On the upper left hand corner they should write a hobby that they enjoy.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Spend the next 15-20 minutes allowing students to introduce themselves ti the class. The catch is they have to introduce themselves using their adjective. For example, a student named Chelsea may say, “My name is Chatty Chelsea.” Then they should talk about their hobby- allow students time to talk and really listen to the scope of interests.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Miss Snyder’s Rules:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The next portion of class will talk about the different classroom rules and procedures. A fun way to talk about rules is to make an acronym of class rules using the teacher’s last name. For example:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">S: STOP! this classroom is bully free! If you have nothing nice to say, then don’t say anything at all!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">N- Never be afraid to ask why! Challenge everything; it is okay to be opinionated in this class (just do so respectfully).
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Y- You will get as much out of this class as you put into it. Stay focused and work hard and you will receive more than a letter grade.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">D- Don’t be afraid to ask questions. As cliche’ as it sounds, there is no such thing as a dumb question.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">E- Everyone has the right to have their own thoughts and opinions.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">R- Resist the urge to cheat (this include plagiarism!) Yes, I will catch you and there will be consequences!


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Many times students check out during classroom rules and procedures because they think they have heard it all but these rules are more creative and designed to be different than “raise your hand.”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For homework, ask students to develop their own set of rules, or goals, they have for the semester. They should also make an acronym using their last name.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This unit will eventually concentrate on culture and how we are all fundamentally the same as human beings; we all feel things and need things. However just because we have these same basic qualities, doesn’t mean we are all clones of one another. We all have traits that make us unique- that make us who we are. Today students will explore who they are and what makes them unique.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Day 2: “Unique but the Same”__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Our Own Rules: Review-__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Give students the chance to share the rules and goals they set for themselves. This was their homework assignment from the night before and it should be collected by the teacher after students have finished discussing. These rules are a great way to pre-assess student learning habits.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__A Handprint:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The first step of this exercise is to provide students with a large piece of construction paper and a sharpie marker. After the supplies have been given out, tell students they should trace their hand onto the sheet.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Once every student has completed this, let students know that each of their fingers on their hand tracing represents a part of who they are:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The four fingers represent:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Family
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Friends
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fears
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Future
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The thumb represents their passion or secret dream- it is their pulse.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Within each finger, students should write key words that describe who they are within each of these categories. Give students a chance to decorate their hand prints and make them their own.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After the students have finished the exercise, each student should present their handprint. This is a great tool for getting to know each student on a deeper level. Moreover, it is going to be helpful to understand where students come from in this unit.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Suggestion- Use the hand prints as a wall bulletin.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The past two days have given some insight into who each student is individually. Today, the classroom will start to make connections with one another. A major understanding of this unit is that we all share ties that unite us as people, so this will serve for two main purposes: a get to know you activity and an anchor for later discussions.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Day 3- “Find Someone Who...”__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__“Please Sign, Here”__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This activity is all about finding what people in the class have done or are interested in. When students come into class they will receive a piece of paper with a Bingo Board Diagram. However, instead of numbers in the different squares there will be phrases. For example:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Went Skydiving”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Has More than one pet”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will be asked to move around the room finding one person who has done one of these phrases. When they find someone who went skydiving, for example, that person should write their name in that block. At the end of the activity, every person’s board should be filled in with different signatures from their classmates.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Spend time after the activity finding out which students did what- encourage students to expand on their experiences.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Today’s class is going to feature some writing that aligns with the common theme of the week and unit. Students will be writing a “Where I’m From” poem from a template.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Day 4- “Where I’m From”__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Where I’m From: Recording:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">First, open class with a recording of “Where I’m From” by George Ella Lyon.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After the recording, ask students to open their reflection notebook (this notebook should have been listed on their school supplies list) and ask them to write down whatever comes to mind when they hear this poem.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After they reflect, open up the classroom to discussion- what did the students think about the poem? Did they like it? What parts of the poem stood out to them?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After the discussion, show students you own “Where I’m From” poem. It is important that the teacher allows the students to get to know them as well.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ask students to now write their own version of the “Where I’m From” poem:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__“Where I’m From”- Original Poem__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I am from clothespins, from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I am from the dirt under the back porch. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Black, glistening, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">it tasted like beets.) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I am from the forsythia bush <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the Dutch elm <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">whose long-gone limbs I remember <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">as if they were my own. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm from fudge and eyeglasses, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> from Imogene and Alafair. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm from the know-it-alls <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and the pass-it-ons, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">from Perk up! and Pipe down! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm from He restoreth my soul <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> with a cottonball lamb <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and ten verses I can say myself. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm from Artemus and Billie's Branch, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">fried corn and strong coffee. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">From the finger my grandfather lost <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> to the auger, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the eye my father shut to keep his sight. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Under my bed was a dress box <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">spilling old pictures, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a sift of lost faces <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">to drift beneath my dreams. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I am from those moments-- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">snapped before I budded -- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">leaf-fall from[| the family tree].

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__“Where I’m From” Template:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I am from ___ (specific ordinary item), from__ _ (product name) and ___.__ __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I am from the ___ (home description... adjective, adjective, sensory detail). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I am from the ___ (plant, flower, natural item), the__ _ (plant, flower, natural detail) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I am from ___ (family tradition) and__ _ (family trait), from ___ (name of family member) and__ _ (another family name) and ___ (family name).__ __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I am from the ___ (description of family tendency) and ___ (another one).__ __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">From ___ (something you were told as a child) and ___ (another).__ __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I am from (representation of religion, or lack of it). Further description. __ __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm from ___ (place of birth and family ancestry), ___ (two food items representing your family).__ __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">From the ___ (specific family story about a specific person and detail), the ___ (another detail, and the__ _ (another detail about another family member). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I am from ___ (location of family pictures, mementos, archives and several more lines indicating their worth).


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Allow students the rest of class to workshop on their “Where I’m From Poem.” Be available to help students and encourage them to be creative in the creation of their poem.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students should finish the poem for homework. They will place their poem in their portfolio which will be collected at the end of the unit.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For homework: the following day is “culture day” and students should remember to bring in a food dish and other items that reflect their culture.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This class will focus on each student’s individual culture.Students should bring in a food dish and other items that represent their culture.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Day 5: Culture Day__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Culture Fair__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Set the desks up in a circle so that each student can place their dish and items on their desk while looking at the other items in the classroom.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The day should be ran like a “culture fair”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Number the students by 4’s. There will be four different rounds of the culture fair where students will present their dish to their classmates. For example, number 1’s will all stand by their desk with their culture items. All the other students in the class will walk around the classroom to the different desks where the 1’s are standing. The number 1’s should answer their classmates questions and give them samples of their food.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After about 15 minutes, the 1’s will become apart of the class and the number 2’s will stand by their desk and present their culture. This rotation will continue until every group has had a chance to present their culture.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This fair should take the entirety of class so that students really get the full affect of the different cultures and no rotation group is rushed in their presentation.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For homework, students should spend a few minutes reflection in their notebook about the culture fair. Who’s culture was similar to their own? What did they like about the culture fair? What did they learn? Did their initial thoughts about a culture change after the fair?

//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Instruction: // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This next part of the unit plan focuses on instruction. From days 6-16, students will analyze poetry for poetic elements as well as cultural themes. The introductory week connects with the next two weeks because it has set the stage for talking about culture. The goal of the introduction activities is to get students comfortable with one another and with the teacher. This unit asks students to really describe themselves and open up their writing to the class which can be very personal. Thus, it was important to spend time during the first week to understand each student’s background. Now all of these lessons will start to come together through poetry in these two weeks. //

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Poetry has the ability to connect cultures and people from all different walks of life. Unfortunately, the potential of poetry is often overlooked by students because it can be intimidating. There is a bias associated with poetry units because the previous experiences students have with poems are dedicated to the daunting work of analyzing and trying to understand the point of the author. Therefore, the main purpose of the hook for this unit is to make students feel comfortable with poetry by aligning poetry with something they already know; music. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Music is a fluid art form that encompasses many of the same features as poetry. The different elements of music such as rhythm, rhyme, and cadence are present in poetry. Moreover, a song may allude to a certain emotion or culture in the way that a poem would but students tend to find it easier to connect with a song rather than a poem. The purpose of this unit is to help students differentiate between the “actual world” and their “own world.” Students should demonstrate an understanding about their own culture, develop an awareness of other’s cultures, and find the universal elements that connect all of us as people. In order to ignite this lesson, students will spend time unravelling the meaning and elements of music:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Day 6: What is Poetry?- Hook for the Unit__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__What is Music?__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The first step in this hook is to have students complete a chalk talk. When students enter the class, the board will read “What is Music?” The students should be instructed to sit quietly at their desk and when they have an answer to the question, to go up to the board and write their response. The class is encouraged to comment on their peers work, as well. At the end of the chalk talk, class should discuss the remarks on the board and talk about the different elements of music. The board will also reveal many similarities to the elements of poetry but it should not be revealed that the unit is about poetry, yet.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After the chalk talk, distribute a handout to the class that has key poetry terms that they will be able to apply to the song they are working with:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">stanza
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">couplet
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">mood
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">imagery
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">metaphor
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">personification
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">simile
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">symbol
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">alliteration
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">assonance
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">onomatopoeia
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">refrain
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">repetition
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">rhyme scheme

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Glogster:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The next step is introduce a group project that will introduce the unit. Students will be placed into small groups (3-4 students). Each group will then be given a list of songs and from that list they should choose one song that they want to research, analyze, grapple with, and create a presentation using the online poster database, Glogster. As an example of instruction, the teacher should model their own Glogster. For instance,, the teacher may give a brief presentation on the song “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The presentation should open with the song being played for the class.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This song portrays many of the cultural aspects from 1949-1989. This song lists names of key figures and events through history. The teacher should spend time talking about a few events and why they were included in the song.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The chorus of the song states: “We didn’t start the fire, it was always burning, since the world’s been turning.” At this point the teacher should ask students what these lyrics mean and why they are important enough to be the lyrics repeated throughout the song.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The meaning of the chorus is that generations are constantly leaving problems for the next generation to solve. Therefore the fire has always been burning and will stay burning.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After the mock presentation from the teacher, students should be given the rest of class to delve into this project. The teacher needs to be integral in group work to make sure that students are making the connections they will need later in the unit:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Are students creating an awareness for a culture other than their own?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Have students connected lyrics with the different key terms distributed on the handout?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Are students grappling with the different meanings of lyrics?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Glogster Wrap-Up__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students should be continuing to work on their Glogster presentation. Give the first twenty five minutes for students to finish the project and then have students start to present their findings to the class. The rubric for this assessment can be found in the formative assessment section.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Day 7: What is Poetry Continued__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Presentations:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At the end of the presentations, students will be acquainted with some key terms of poetry, have analyzed and synthesized lyrics, and found a connection between the world they live in and the world of another. It should be revealed to students at the completion of this project that what they have been working with is poetry because music is really poetry set to sound. Hopefully students will be more comfortable approaching the unit from this point and not feel anxious when they think about analyzing poetry.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The past two days of instruction have hinted at culture but poetry has been at the forefront of the lessons. Before students start unravelling the stylistic portions of poetry analysis, it is important that they reflect on the theme of the unit. All of the poems chosen for this unit are reflective of one culture or another, so this lesson will prep students for a thematic analysis later in the unit.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Day 8 : What is Culture?__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Brainstorm:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When students walk into class there will be a large index card in the center of their table. On the card it will say, “What is Culture?”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For 5-7 minutes, allow students to discuss at the table what culture is. Ask one member of the group to record the main ideas of the brainstorm.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Individually, asks students to write down two questions or comments they have based off their discussion of culture in their group.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Fishbowl:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will participate in a fishbowl discussion.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Arrange the desks into two circles: one smaller circle will be placed inside of a larger circle.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After the desks are arranged, place students in pairs for the discussion.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One partner will sit in the smaller circle and the other partner will sit on the outer, bigger, circle.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Students who are on the inside of the fishbowl should take turns speaking and when they are finished their partner on the outside should take their place. Each student should contribute something to the discussion in order to show their participation for the day.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The discussion will center around the questions and comments that the students wrote down after their brainstorm. It is important that students really engage and question the different prejudices of culture.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As the teacher, make sure that students are grappling with the different comments and questions- feel free to step in and keep the conversation on track if need be.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The first day of the Glogster presentations students were given a list of poetic elements with their definitions. During this class, students will have to put these elements to practice.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Day 9: Elements of Poetry__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Brainstorm:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As soon as class begins, give students 3 minutes to write down as many poetic elements as they can remember. It is okay if they can’t remember all of them, but this activity should be individual.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At the end of the three minutes, give students another three minutes to go back to their list and write down a definition for as many of the poetic elements that they could remember.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Finally, give students 3 minutes to write down an example of a poetic element that they listed. For example, if they wrote down simile, they could write “He was as strong as a lion.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Elements Scavenger Hunt:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After the brainstorming activity, inform students that they will be completing a scavenger hunt for different poetic elements in the classroom.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This activity takes preparation from the teacher:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There will be numbered note cards placed throughout the classroom.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Each note card will provide an example of a poetic element from a piece of poetry.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For example:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s Day?” - example of metaphor from Shakespeare’s sonnet 18. The note card would only reveal the line from the sonnet, and it would be up to the student to infer which element this was.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To begin the activity, ask students to get in partners. Once students are in pairs, hand each set of students a worksheet. The worksheet should be numbered 1-14 for all the poetic elements on their list.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Explain to students that they are on a scavenger hunt to unveil the different poetic elements scattered around the room. As a pair it is their job to figure out which poetic element is exemplified on which card
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At the end of the scavenger hunt, reveal the answers. Collect the worksheets at the end of the activity to gage student understanding of the elements thus far.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Poetry Elements Quiz**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Day 10-:Finding Poetry:__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">See Lesson Plans for detailed instruction **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Day 11: A Bigger Understanding:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">See Lesson Plans for detailed instruction **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Day 12: Response to Poetry__ ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The last class students completed their first analysis of the poem “Languages” by Carl Sandburg. Today, students are going to continue to analyze poetry and provide personal responses to the poetry.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Process Log:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students are going to start forming responses to poetry so that they will feel more comfortable in later analysis. The poem they will be working on today is “No Images” by William Waring Cuny.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The first step is for the teacher to read the poem out loud to the students. Ask students to listen intently on the words. After the students have listened to the poem, ask them to open their reflection notebooks and write down their first impressions of the poem. What parts of the poem do they really remember? What did they think of when they heard the poem?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After the students reflect, pass out a copy of the poem to each student. Instruct the students to reread the poem silently.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When everyone has finished reading, ask students to go back through the poem to answer these questions in their reflection notebook:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What questions did you have after your first reading of the poem?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What words/phrases were confusing?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What words/phrases helped you understand?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What words/phrases seemed to have particular importance? Can you tell why?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As you read the poem a second time, marking it, what insights did you have?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When students have finished their process log, allow students to discuss their process with their classmates at the table.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Free Write:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The poem “No Images” talks about a black woman who is unable to see her real beauty because of the color of her skin and the prejudices she faces. Ask students to free write on a time that they have felt judged or felt that they were though less of because of who they are. How did that make them feel? Why do these prejudices exist? Do prejudices and racism still exist?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This Free Write should be edited at home and turned in at the start of the following class.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagery is fundamentally important to poetry because it adds a level of evocative detail. The power of poetry is that it makes us see images, smell scenery and foods, feel sympathy and empathy. After today’s lesson, students will begin writing their own cultural poetry, so to prepare for that students will learn why imagery is important.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Day 13: Visual Imagery__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Visualize:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For this lesson, ask students to place their heads on their desks and close their eyes. Then, shut off all the lights and play a calm soothing song (if possible).
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">While students are starting to relax, ask them to clear their minds totally- tell them that they should listen only to your voice and see my words in their head.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As they sit there, read the poem “Beautiful City” by Lord Alfred Tennyson. Speak the words of the poem very slowly so that students have a chance to really visualize.the words.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At the end of the reading ask students to slowly come back to reality. Have the students take out their reflection notebook and write about what they saw. What images are still floating in their minds? Keep the music playing for this part of the lesson

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Discussion:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When everyone is finished with their Free Write, discuss how the poem was more or less powerful when they were able to imagine the poem’s words.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This discussion will lead into instruction on imagery

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Imagery:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is Imagery?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How is Imagery effective in poetry?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">See Lesson Plans for detailed instruction
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Day 14: Original Poetry__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One of the main thematic principles of this unit is culture and how we see “our world” differently from “the world.”This unit hopes to make students question the ways they see the world and realize that everyone comes from different places but that doesn’t make them any better or less than anyone else. Today students are going to read “Dinner Guest: Me” by Langston Hughes to illustrate this them further.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Day 15: Our World__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__“Dinner Guest: Me”__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This poem should be read out loud as a class. Arrange desks in a circle so that all the students are looking at one another. Together the class will all read this poem- one student will begin by reading the very first word of the poem. The student next to them will read the second word and this procedure will continue until the poem is completely read.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When the poem is read, inform students that they will now be reading it for a second time. This time when the student reads they should stand up at their desk and read the entire line (not every student may read in this rotation, and that is okay).
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When that exercise has finished the teacher should stand up and read this poem with conviction and emphasis. This poem is truly evocative and should get students thinking about a time where they felt scrutinized.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Analysis::__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Give the students a few moments with the copy of the poem at their desk. Instruct students to reread the poem silently and then analyze the different line-
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Underline words and phrases that really stuck out. Why were they so important?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What literary elements were used? What did they add to the poem?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What does the poem mean?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What phrases are hard to understand?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Is there imagery? What does this poem make you visualize?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Discussion:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The desks should still be set up as a circle and after students have had a few moments to analyze the poem, they should begin discussing as a class.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Have students refer to specific parts of the poem that they analyzed
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The teacher should guide the instruction and ensure that by the end of class students have found some meaning in the poem.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Today students are going to be practicing reading their own poetry out loud. A great aspect of poetry is that it is designed to be heard so today students will be able to read their “Odes to Culture” in front of the class.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Day 16: “Knock Knock”__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Odes:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students were give then choice in how they wanted to present their ode to the class:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Read the Ode in front of their classmates
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Play a recording (using audacity files) in front of the class
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presentations should take up almost the entirety of the class

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__“Knock Knock”__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As a Wrap-Up of this lesson, play “Knock Knock” by Daniel Beaty. This poem is was read during Slam Poetry and demonstrates the power of poetry.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ask students to reflect on this poem in their poetry notebook for homework.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Have they ever heard Slam Poetry?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What did they like/dislike about this style?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Would they have originally seen this style as poetry?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The final part of this unit is used as a project week. Throughout days 17-20, students will be developing a poetry portfolio and working on a synthesis paper. This will be the final days of the Unit and the culmination of everything they learned over the past three weeks


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Day 17: Introduction to Portfolio__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Reflection:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In small groups have students talk about the reflections they did for homework about the “Knock Knock” slam poetry.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Portfolio:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One of the summative assignments in this unit is a portfolio. The portfolio is a compilation of all the work students have done over the unit.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hand out the instructions for what is to be included in the portfolio.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It would be helpful to show examples of the portfolio so that students know how they will be graded.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Also, inform students that the last day of this unit will be portfolio day. Each student should bring in their portfolio and be prepared to share some of the pieces they included. They will not be forced to share all of their poetry because some may be personal but they should pick out at least a few items that they are willing to share.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The second summative assignment for the end of this unit is a synthesis paper. Today, instructions will be given for the paper and students will be allotted some research time.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Day 18: Research__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Instructions:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Each student should be given a handout with very specific directions for their synthesis paper (the rubric should be included in this handout, as well).
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For this paper, students will pick a poem of their choice that they believe is reflective of some type of culture. Within the paper they must:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Show how culture is reflected- what culture is the poem talking about? Does the poem show tones of prejudice or racism? How do you connect with the culture of this poem?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Analyze the poem for literary elements: pick apart the poem and analyze different words/phrases. What words/phrases give the poem clearer meaning? Do you see evidence of rhyme schemes, satire, etc.?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is the meaning of this poem? In your own words, after analyzing the poem, what is the author conveying?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Research:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After the instructions have been given, students will go to the computer lab to start researching a poem they choose to analyze.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When a student has picked a poem, the teacher should look it over to make sure the poem is challenging enough for the student to analyze.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The rest of class is dedicated to finding a poem.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To help students get a handle on their paper, class time will be allowed to work on the paper. The due date for this assignment in one week after the unit ends, so they will have plenty of opportunity to work on the paper at home. However, this type of analysis may be new to students so it is helpful to have the teacher’s support at the beginning.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Day 19: Writer’s Workshop:__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Workshop-__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This class period is all about the students working on their project. They should take the time to start analyzing the poem they chose and start writing a rough draft. The students can work at their tables to answer each other’s questions.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The teacher should float around the room to answer questions and assist students in their analysis and rough drafts.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is the last class day for this unit and to wrap up everything student’s have learned, they will present their portfolio to their classmates.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Day 20: Portfolio Day__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Presentations:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Arrange the desks into a circle.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Have students take turns presenting their portfolio. Students should be encouraged to read their own original pieces of poetry or reflections they wrote during the unit.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Collect the portfolios at the end of class as an end of the unit assessment.


 * __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">W.H.E.R.E Model- An Outline of the Unit __**

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__W:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Where are students headed with this unit? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> As students read and analyze different pieces of poetry, they will be asked to define culture, reflect upon their own culture, the culture of others, and identify the elements of culture that tie us together as a human race. On a more literary base, students will begin to understand, recognize, and use in their own writing the different stylistic schemes of poetry. Throughout the unit, students will evaluate how these schemes affect poetry and what they reveal about the meaning and content of the poem itself. Lastly, students will learn how to write their own original poetry.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__H:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is the hook for student interest? The main hook of this lesson is the Glogster Presentation. The Glogster helps students get familiar with poetry and the theme of the unit without overwhelming students. They are able to analyze something they enjoy; music.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__E:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What will students explore? What will they experience? With what will they be equipped? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> This unit will ask students to explore the definition of culture. Typically, culture is regarded as race and origin but there is a broader range of culture that students will be need to experience. Students are going to experience first hand the culture of other students, the struggles that their classmates have endured because of their culture, and gain a deeper understanding for how these struggles unit us. Students will experience what it is like to be a member of another culture and why it is so important that we will be tolerant and understanding of one another. With that being said, students will experience how poetry is connected with emotions and how certain poems are reflective of culture. Students will be equipped with the tools to analyze these poems for poetic elements, meaning, and real world connections.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__R:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When will students have an opportunity to rethink an idea, revise an idea, revisit an idea, or reflect upon an idea? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Students will be given the opportunity to reflect on the different lessons of the unit by means of a poetry notebook. This notebook will be collected throughout the unit and asks students to write down their thoughts about different things that happened during class time, the poems they have been reading, and any other ideas they may have. Also, at the end of the unit students will be asked to complete a synthesis paper which is the culmination of the entire unit. This paper asks students to rethink and revise ideas they have had throughout the unit through the analysis of a cultural poem of their choice.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__E:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How will you help students to evaluate and extend what they’re learning? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Students will extend the understandings of this unit by connecting them with real life. The real world explorations of this unit will guide students in making the content of the lesson more practical and accessible.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">__Lesson Plans:__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Stage 1: Desired Results__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Day 10: Finding Poetry__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Established Goals:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The definition of culture and how each of us fits into our own culture
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A basic definition of poetic elements
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Identify the poetic elements within a text

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Understandings:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will understand...
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Poetry is all around us- many prose pieces have the potential for being poetic.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The transformation between prose and poetry
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What makes poetry, poetry.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Essential Questions:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> How did reading the poem in prose change the reading?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> What makes the text poetry and not prose?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What poetic elements are evident in the text?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What phrases/words were hard to understand?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will know:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That poetry can be found within pieces of prose. Moreover, poetry is all around us and places we wouldn’t expect (bumper stickers, newspaper advertisements, journal articles).
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What poetic elements are evident in the poem
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Which poetic elements strengthened the poem
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">An implied meaning of the poem

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will be able to:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Analyze the poem in search for poetic elements, meaningful words and phrases.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Demonstrate an understanding of how the poetic elements affect the poem.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Articulate the meaning of the poem
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Connect the poem to their own life

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Stage 2: Assessment Evidence__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Performance Tasks:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Discussion between partners and the class about how the poem has changed between prose and poetry.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Personal Reflection in their poetry notebook
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Exit Card

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Stage 3: Learning Plan__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Close Reading-__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teachers will hand out students a copy of the poem “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou. However, the poem should be re-written to look as if someone wrote the poem as a letter. Students will read “Still I Rise” as if it was purely a piece of prose; a letter that showcases a person’s discomfort in the way they were treated.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will read “Still I Rise” to themselves. After a few minutes, students will discuss with a partner how the author was feeling and what the text conveys.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A class discussion should occur after students have had a few moments to share thoughts with a partner.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__What Changed?__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teachers will hand out another copy of “Still I Rise,” except that the text should read in its original poetic form. After the students read the poem, be prepared to facilitate a discussion on how the text has changed.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will: read “Still I Rise” and discuss the changes from prose to poetry.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What makes poetry different?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Did the content of the poem change when the style changed?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What version did you like best?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students should take 5-7 minutes to reflect on these questions in their reflection essays before the class discusses the questions, together.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__We Found Poetry!__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teachers will help students understand that poetry is everywhere. The teacher should guide students to reflect- We have found poetry through music and now in prose. Poetry does not have to be conventional.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will reflect on prior notions of poetry after seeing the less conventional approaches to poetry.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will be given an exit card in which they must give an example of how “Still I Rise” changed from prose to poetry. Did it make a difference?


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Day 11: A Bigger Understanding__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Stage 1: Desired Results__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Established Goals:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will understand key stylistic themes of poetry
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Evidence of poetic elements within poetry
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How poetry differs from prose
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A definition and understanding of culture

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Understandings__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will be able to...
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Understandings the meaning of “Languages” by Carl Sandburg.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Paraphrase and analyze a poem for meaning and connections to the real world
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Find evidence of poetic elements in the text
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Connect the poem to 21st century culture/society.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Essential Questions__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is this poem stating? (a paraphrase)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is the theme connecting this piece to real life? generalizations and extended meanings.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does this poem reflect human culture?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will know:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The meaning of the poem (paraphrase)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Themes that relate to the poem
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Connections between the poem and real life

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will be able to:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Analyze the poem for poetic elements
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Support claim for meaning of the poem through text.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Show evidence of themes and real life connections through text

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Stage 2: Assessment Evidence__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Performance Tasks:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The notes from group discussion will be collected at the end of class to gage student understanding.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Stage 3: Learning Plan__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Differentiated Instruction:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In order to differentiate and allow each student to be successful in understanding the meaning of this poem, students will be placed in three different groups with students who display similar readiness ability.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Group 1 will be students who have basic readiness needs, Group 2 will be students with average readiness, and Group 3 will be students with above average readiness.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will not be aware that they are in a group based on ability; instead students will understand that each group has a specific role so that the entire class can make deeper connections to the poem.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Tier 1- Basic Readiness :__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Profile:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students who have minimal experience with poetry and students who have had experience and struggled.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Group 1:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Paraphrasers

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Tier 2- Average Readiness:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Profile:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students who have had experience with poetry and display average or on grade level knowledge of the poetry.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Group 2__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Thematizers

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Tier 3- Above Average Readiness:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Profile:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students in this group have a great knowledge and experience analyzing poetry.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Group 3__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Allegorizers

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Teacher Instruction:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Place students in above mentioned groups and rotate between groups to assist students in their findings.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When students are placed in groups, explain that each group has been assigned a different role in analyzing the poem. Give each group a handout of what their group is responsible for uncovering.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Give the class 30 minutes to do this exercise.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Group 1:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teacher will place students in a group together and help them paraphrase the poem “Languages” by Carl Sandburg.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will read the poem and attempt to make connections with the poem by summarizing the poem in their own words. Connections may be made through different sentences or words

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Group 2:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teacher will place students in a group together and help them to find the basic theme or meaningful lesson based off the poem, “Languages” by Carl Sandburg.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will read the poem and search for general themes that can be applied to life. Students should make connections from life experiences and knowledge.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Group 3:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teacher will place students in group and help them to make specific and extending connections with real life. This group will be looking deeper meanings than Group 2.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will read the poem and make deep, extending connections between the text and real life.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Discuss and Reflect:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teacher will lead a discussion based off their reflections and group work about the meaning of the poem. Allow students to really grapple and voice their connections and opinions of the poem.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> tie the discussion into the aspect of culture: what does this poem say about the world we live in?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does language, as Carl Sandburg talks about it, affect you own life or someone you know?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will contribute to class discussions.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Closure:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teacher will ask students to return back to their seats and open their reflection essays. For 3-5 minutes students should record their personal connections to the poem. What did they like/dislike? Did they find the exercise to be helpful in understanding the poem.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will reflect in their essay.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Day 14: Odes to Culture__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Stage 1: Desired Results:__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Established Understandings:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How to draw connections from real life from poetry
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Themes that come from poetic texts
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How to paraphrase a poem for meaning
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The definition of culture
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ways in which culture is represented in our society (prejudices, racism, traditions, etc).

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Understandings:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will be able to...
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Demonstrate understanding of an Ode
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Write their own original Ode to culture
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Connect their ode to their personal life
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use poetic elements to strengthen their own personal Ode.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Essential Questions:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is an Ode?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do we write our own Ode?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do we want others to see our culture?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What preconceived notions or stereotypes do people have about our culture?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is the meaning of our Ode?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What poetic elements are used to strengthen the Ode?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will know:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The definition of an Ode
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Examples of an Ode
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How to create their own Ode about their culture

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will be able to:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create their own Ode about their culture to teach something important about their culture or counter prejudices and stereotypes of their culture.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use different poetic elements to strengthen the emotional appeal of their Ode
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Present their Ode to the class in a future presentation.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Stage 2: Assessment Evidence__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Performance Task:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student’s original Ode will be collected after their presentation. Their Ode should follow the template given for Odes and depict a part of their culture/who they are.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Stage 3: Learning Plan__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Do Now:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On the board pose the question, “How do you think others view you?”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ask students to open their poetry notebooks and make a list of any prejudices or stereotypes that they think people associate with who they are, their culture, or their family.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After a few minutes, ask students to go back to their list and circle the top five prejudices that anger them the most.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Explain they will now begin writing an Ode, which is a form of poetry, to counter the views that anger them the most.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__An Ode:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is an Ode? Instruction should be given to explain what an Ode is. Students should be made aware that Odes tend to be serious and have a formal tone. The purpose of their Ode is to make a statement about who they are. This is their chance to represent who they actually are.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Provide an example of an Ode for students:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">From Ode to a Nightingale <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">John Keats (1795-1821)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">'Tis not through envy of the happy lot, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But being too happy in thy happiness,– <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In some melodious plot <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Singest of summer in full-throated ease.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">O for a draught of vintage, that hath been <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tasting of Flora and the country green, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dance, and Provencal song, and sun-burnt mirth! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">O for a beaker full of the warm South, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And purple-stained mouth; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And with thee fade away into the forest dim:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What thou among the leaves hast never known, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The weariness, the fever, and the fret <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Where but to think is to be full of sorrow <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And leaden-eyed despairs; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Where beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Or new love pine at them beyond tomorrow.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__“Ode to a Nightingale”:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After reading the poem to the class, show students the structure of an Ode in the example so that they will know the different parameters for writing their own Ode
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hand out colored pencils to each table:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With a colored pencil label the different stanzas in the poem
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Using colored pencils circle all of the words that rhyme (each pair of words should be a different color)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Can you pick out the rhyme scheme?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Go over the answers to these questions and make sure students are starting to understand the structure of an ode.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Briefly discuss the meaning of this poem- that death is an inevitable part of life. Give students a chance to explore and make the point that Odes discuss matters of life and a are a more formal type of poetry.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__How to Write an Ode (Student Instructions):__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Ode is a celebration of who you are and the lyrics of the poem should be smooth and easy to follow.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Ode must have three stanzas
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The stanzas can have 10 lines (for our class purpose; some Odes have up to 30 lines).
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The rhyme scheme should be ababcdecde

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Ode Template:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stanza 1: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Line 1 (rhyme A) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Line 2 (rhyme B) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Line 3 (rhyme A) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Line 4 (rhyme B) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Line 5 (rhyme C) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Line 6 (rhyme D) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Line 7 (rhyme E) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Line 8 (rhyme C) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Line 9 (rhyme D) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Line 10 (rhyme E) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**The matching letters should all rhyme! So, this means that the last word in lines 1 and 3 should rhyme. The last word in lines 2 and 4 should rhyme. Line 5 will rhyme with line 8. Questions?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Stanza 1:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For the rest of class, allow students time to work on the first stanza of their Ode. After the first stanza students will start to get the hang of the structure but the first stanza will need to be guided.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As students finish their first stanza, check their work to make sure that they are on the right track.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Homework:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students should finish their Odes and they will be due the day of their presentation.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">__Self Evaluation and Reflection:__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As I come to a close in developing this unit, the wheels in my head are still turning. I have spent countless hours and days dedicating my time to the creation of this unit and every time I sit down, open up my laptop, I begin to rethink and ponder the different lessons and understandings I have aligned in this unit. I have been constantly adding and deleting different elements to this unit over the past few weeks. As I reflect on all the changes, additions, and substitutions I have made to this unit, I realize that this plan is truly indicative of teaching. Unit plans are constantly being revised and I think that a good teacher will constantly revise and add different methods to their teaching. This unit plan, which is the coalition of all the things I have learned over the past three years made me realize that as a teacher, I will constantly be finding new and exciting ways to teach important principles to my students. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> When I first sat down to create this unit, before all of the endless revisions, I had no idea where to begin. The only thing I knew was that I wanted to develop a unit about poetry. I decided to write a unit about poetry because I knew that it would challenge me. Like many students, I find poetry to be overwhelming and I wanted to practice writing a plan for something I was not totally comfortable with. Consequently, I found a love for poetry that I never had before. I found as I was searching for texts that poetry has the ability to connect easily with a reader’s emotions; it is powerful in nature. This is not to say that other forms of text are not prolific, but I had never found a connection with poetry before this so I was moved by the power of this form of text. It was then that I decided that I wanted to show students that they too can make this connection; poetry doesn’t have to be intimidating. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> In order to strengthen the connection between the students and the poems, I decided to make the unit personal. I decided that the main theme surrounding the unit would be culture; more than that it would be about the student’s place in the world. It is hard for many students to find real world connections in their schoolwork and this unit does not only encourage this type of connection, it demands it. Students are forced to think about who they are in relation to the world. I was so encouraged to start this unit after I had a place to begin, and after recommendation, I opened up <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Bridging English__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> by Joseph O’Beirne Milner and Lucy Floyd Morcock Milner. This resource was the most profound source for my research. Chapter six of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Bridging English,__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">is solely dedicated to the teaching of poetry. I read through the entire chapter and my mind was swimming with ideas for different lessons. I decided to begin the instruction part of the unit with a music hook. I was trying to figure out the best way to get students thinking about poetry and I thought about the fact that poetry is lyrical. It was then that I saw the connection between music and poetry. I decided to add a technology element in into the instruction of the hook to really get students motivated for the unit. One thing that I liked about the creation of this unit, was that all of the lessons I developed are feasible. Glogster is becoming more prevalent in secondary schools so it probably would not be hard to implement this type of instruction. With that being said, the lessons I created also have room for modification. If a school can not use Glogster, they could make power points, or if they have no means of technology they could use poster board. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I think that it is important when developing a unit that there is some flexibility and room for change in the lesson plans. If I was to implement this unit into a real life classroom, I would be able to change things around to better fit a different class profile or need of the class. Moreover, I took this unit plan very seriously so that I could implement it into my future classroom. I am without a doubt going to teach poetry at some point in my career and I now have a building block for developing other lessons. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Another resource that I used to ground the unit was <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Understanding by Design.__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">UbD was really influential in designing this unit because it gave me a place to begin and it forced me to think about what was really important in my lesson. Before I began planning a lesson, I thought about what the students had already established in previous lessons. I had to sit and reflect about other lessons to make sure that students had the background knowledge to begin the next lesson. This type of reflection is so realistic to the actual act of teaching because I am going to have to constantly think about the goals and understandings students have established before I begin another lesson. As I did this, I found myself going back to earlier lessons and begging the endless revising that I did so many times in this unit. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> After I made sure that students possessed the knowledge I needed them to have, I thought about the ending product of the lesson. UbD talks about backwards design, meaning that when we design a lesson we should first focus on what we hope students obtain in the lesson. Before this unit plan, I did not really see he significance of this design or how it would change how I wrote my lesson plans. However, I quickly realized that while I wrote out the different understandings I wanted to students to gain, my initial thoughts for the lesson were changing. If I wanted students to understand how to write an Ode, I had to go back and figure out the best way to exemplify and Ode to the class. I realized I could not just hand out a sheet of paper and quickly go over the structure with the students. If they were going to fully understand what an Ode was, they needed to engage with an example of an Ode. This is when I decided to go back to this lesson and add the exercise with the colored pencils. I had students analyze the structure on their own so that they were not passively taking in the information I was spitting at them. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Another aspect of the unit that I constantly revisited was the WHERE model for the unit. I was amazed at how this model changed through the creation of the unit. I found that where I thought my unit was headed completely changed after I spent time in a real classroom. Everything I learned in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Bridging English__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Understanding by Design__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">started to take from in my unit because I saw how real life students reacted to this type of instruction. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> As a final reflection, I think that this unit plan could still be revised and changed but I think that will always be the case. I think that this unit poses important questions for students and forces them to make real life connections which was what I was striving to accomplish. In that respect, I am really proud of this unit because it showcases all of the important information I have taken away from education professors, experts, and authors. I know that this unit has the potential to be implemented in a real classroom and I hope that I have the chance to do that at some point in my career. Of course, like good teaching, this unit has room to improve. I have only begun to scratch the surface of the all the things I will learn in my career of teaching and I am sure that in five years this unit plan may take on a new shape entirely. However, that is the beauty of teaching- every day we wake up with a chance to revise and make ourselves and our students better.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">__Resources:__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Clark, Carol. "Why Teach Poetry." Educators Publishing Service. Web.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://eps.schoolspecialty.com/downloads/articles/why_teach_poetry.pdf.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Examples of Ode : Poetry through the Ages." Webexhibits. Web.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> http://www.webexhibits.org/poetry/explore_classic_ode_examples.html

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Milner, Joseph O’Bierne and Milner, Lucy Floyd Morcock. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Bridging English__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Upper Saddle River,

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NJ: Pearson Education, Inc., 2008.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Poetic Form: Ode." Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More. Web.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5784

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wiggins, Grant and Jay McTighe. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Understanding by Design__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2006. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: -25px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">__**State Standards:**__ <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: -25px; width: 1px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//1.1.11.B// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Use context clues, knowledge of root words, and word origins as well as reference sources to <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: -25px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;"> decode and understand new words. <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: -25px; width: 1px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//1.2.11.C// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Examine the author’s explicit and implicit bias and assumptions, beliefs about a subject, use of fact <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: -25px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;"> and/or opinion, and/or the author’s argument or defense of a claim as related to essential and nonessential <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: -25px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;"> information. <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: -25px; width: 1px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//1.3.11.D// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Analyze the effectiveness, in terms of literary quality, of the author’s use of literary devices, (e.g., personification, simile, alliteration, symbolism, metaphor, hyperbole,imagery, allusion, satire, foreshadowing, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: -25px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;"> flashback, irony) in various genres. <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: -25px; width: 1px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//1.4.11.A// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Write poems, short stories, and plays: <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: -25px; width: 1px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//1.4.11.B// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Write complex informational pieces (e.g. research papers, literary analytical essays, evaluations) <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: -25px; width: 1px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//1.5.11.D.// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Write with an understanding of style using a variety of sentence structures and descriptive word choices. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: -25px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;"> Create tone and voice through the use of precise language. <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: -25px; width: 1px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//1.5.11.F// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Use grade appropriate conventions of language when writing and editing. <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: -25px; width: 1px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//1.6.11.A// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Listen critically and respond to others in small and large group situations <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: -25px; width: 1px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//1.6.11.B.// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Demonstrate awareness of audience using appropriate volume and clarity in formal speaking <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: -25px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;"> presentations. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: -25px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;"> 1.7.11 A. Evaluate as a reader how an author’s choice of words advances the theme or purpose of a <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: -25px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;"> work. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: -25px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;"> 1.8.11 B Synthesize information gathered from a variety of sources, including technology and one’s own research, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: -25px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;"> and evaluate information for its relevance to the research question.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Apply various organizational methods.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Include literary elements and devices.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Construct a strong story line with illustrative details.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Include elements of style in writing to develop a personal style.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Spell all words correctly.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Use capital letters correctly.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Punctuate correctly
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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Respond with grade level appropriate questions, ideas, information or opinions.