Performance Objective
G4 2R C1 PO9 Identify structural elements of poetry such as imagery,
rhyme scheme, verse, rhythm, and meter.
Learning Objective
I will identify rhyme scheme, and verse in poetry.
Bloomʼs Level
Knowledge/Comprehension
** The follow up assessment is at the synthesis level
Essential Questions
What are structural elements of poetry?
What is imagery? How do I identify it?
What is rhyme scheme? How do I identify it?
What is verse? How do I identify it?
What is rhythm? How do I identify it?
What is meter? How do I identify it?
Anticipatory Set
Congruent to objective
Active Participation
Past Experience
The students will record the objective in their reading journals. Think
about three things you know about poetry - whisper to neighbor.
Direct Instruction
Modeling
Read the objective to the students.
Tell them what rhyme scheme, and verse is.
Read aloud, “Bed in Summer” and show students rhyme scheme and
verses
Guided Practice
Read together, “Shade and Shadow” determine rhyme scheme and
count the verses.
Independent Practice
Read together, “Trees” have students write rhyme scheme, and count
verses.
Active Participation
(overt/covert/combo)
The students are reading poems with me, using vis a vis markers, they
are marking the rhyme scheme and counting verses
Closure
Congruent to objective
Active Participation
Past Experience
Student Summary
Think about the objective, turn to your partner and whisper it without
reading it.
Assessment
Follow Up Assignment:
I will write a free verse poem that has three stanzas, four lines in each
stanza, and an AABB rhyme pattern.
Resource Materials
Teacher created poetry booklet; larger class keynote presentation
**Pick up books and begin reading
Bed In Summer
by Robert Louis Stevenson
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.
And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?
Shade and Shadow
by Dexter Evans
I heard a cricket creaking
As I stood in silence peeking
Down a long and narrow pathway to the village through the trees.
Then I saw a wee bug flashing
As its little wings went thrashing
And its greenish flame winked off and on a dozen times at me.
I heard an owl calling
(As the evening dew was falling)
From the black and brittle branches of an ancient, brooding tree.
The moon made shade and shadow
Through the oaks, and though I had no
Cause to rest, I paused to hear the night winds sighing over me.
As I journeyed, slowly poking
Down the lane, I heard the croaking
Of a hundred frogs in unison from the rushes in the stream.
Through the branches stars were blinking
As I stood in silence thinking
Life is full of greater beauty than the sweetest of our dreams.
Trees
~Sarah Coleridge
The Oak is called the king of trees,
The Aspen quivers in the breeze,
The Poplar grows up straight and tall,
The Peach tree spreads along the wall,
The Sycamore gives pleasant shade,
The Willow droops in watery glade,
The Fir tree useful in timber gives,
The Beech amid the forest lives.