Grade 9 -- Unit 3: Poetry
Holt
Elements of Literature
1 Reading (SSR)
Black Line
Masters
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Holt Elements of Language
Reader’s
Handbook
Preparing to Read, 536, 570, 606, 642,
676, 766,802, 866
Other Resources
See LPSS ELA Blackboard for Reading
Log, Status of the Class, AR Guidelines,
Summer Reading Guidelines. Other
things will be added on an on-going basis.
For Independent Practice, 70, 153, 231, 319,
455, 555, 629, 705, 833, 1039
Index listings on 1238.
Double Entry Journal & Learning Logs,
www.maslibraries.org/infolit/samplers/sp
ring/doub.html
Dialectic Journal,
www.classroommatters.com/download/di
alectic.pdf
2 Vocabulary Study
Vocabulary Development
Vocabulary Development, 1149-1150, 11561157, 1030, 1038, 43, 54, 125, 293, 317,
445, 454, 597
Using a Thesaurus to Find Synonyms, 304
Synonyms, 815
Context Clues, 196, 368, 1124
Etymology, 54
Vocabulary Mini-Lesson, 545, 578,
614, 650, 684,723, 774, 810, 838, 875
Vocabulary Workshop
3 Writing Prompts
Prompts should be derived from the readings
for this unit.
Quickwrites, 1232
Power Notes, Collection 7
Writing, 921
Six Traits of Writing
Transparencies Preview: Reading,
Writing, Revising
1
Using
Dictionary,
T41
Using
Thesaurus,
T42
“Diving into
Dictionaries
and
Thesauruses,
677-683
Daily Writing Prompts,
www.theteacherscorner.net/dailywriting-prompts/index.htm
Grade 9 -- Unit 3: Poetry
Holt
Elements of Literature
4 Grammar
Daily Language Activities, Proofreading
Activities, 1-25, and Sentence
Combining, 77-91
Virtual File Cabinet—practice, remediation,
assessment, review, enrichment pages
Language Handbook Worksheets
Fragments, 1176, 1180
Run-ons, 725, 1180-1181
Syntax, 1201
Capitalization, 1085, 1185, 1186, 1188
Punctuation, 1191
Spelling conventions, 1197
5 Speaking My Language
Visual Connections, Segment 6
Holt Reader, Collection 7
Power Notes, Collection 7, Elements 1 ppt:
Imagery
Visual Connections, Poetry in
Performance, Segment 6;
also p. 40
Imagery, 474
Holt Reading Solutions, 462-467
Figures of Speech, 504
Vocabulary Development-Figures of Speech,
1028-1029
Analyzing a Poem, 556-560
Summarizing, 1103-1104
Holt Reading Solutions, 432-437
Audio Library, disc 12
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” 533
“The Road Not Taken,” 376
“Starfish,” 476
“Blessing,” 480
“Tiburon,” 506
“Base Stealer,” 551
“The American Hero,” 551
“Hope,” 511
“Fog” & “Fire and Ice,” 516-517
“Boy at the Window,” 526
Black Line
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Holt Elements of Language
Reader’s
Handbook
Other Resources
Tranparencies Preview:
Proofreading Warm-Ups
Poetic Devices,
8
Role Cards,
9
Reciprocal
Teaching Task
Sheet,
10
Sound Elements in Poetry, 691
Imagery/Metaphor, 542, 585, 689, 706,
876
A Writer’s Model, 697
Think as a Writer: Writing, Ch. 22
Elements of
Poetry, 423443
Reading
Poetry, 386443
“Oranges”
www.maitespace.com/englishodyssey/C
W/Poetry/oranges.htm
“Blackberry Picking”
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?st
oryid=4818965
2
Grade 9 -- Unit 3: Poetry
Holt
Elements of Literature
Black Line
Masters
6 Making Inferences About a
Poet’s Life
Visual Connections, Segment 8
Inference, 1152
Holt Reading Solutions, 426-431
“The Gift,” 544
LPSS -- 2009-2010
Holt Elements of Language
Reader’s
Handbook
Comparing Facts to Inferences, 676,
805-807, 867-868
Making Inferences, 680-681
Reading Workshop Support, Ch. 25
Making
Inferences, 46
3
Other Resources
Maya Angelou,
www.poemhunter.com/maya-angelou
“Still I Rise,”
www.kalimunro.com/still_I_rise.html
Making an Inference (Beers),
www.pegasuscharter.org/teacherwebs/cpr
ofitt/humanities/LanguageArts/Inference.
htm
Angelou’s Bio,
www.mayaangelou.com/ShortBio.html
“Where I’m From,”
www.georgeellalyon.com/where.html
7 Effect of Sensory Imagery on
Tone & Emotion
Power Notes, Collection 7, Elements 1 ppt:
Imagery, etc.
Visual Connections, Segments 6 & 7
“Legal Alien,” 548
“Women,” 523
Internment,” 512
8 Figuratively Speaking
Power Notes, Collection 7, Elements 2ppt:
Metaphor, Simile
Holt Multicultural Reader, Figures of Speech,
166-170, 171-174
“Folding Won Tons In,” 508
“Tiburon,” 506
“Fog” & “Fire and Ice,” 516
“Boy at the Window,” 526
Literary Devices, 1093P
Viewing Chart,
11
Tone, 689
Imagery and
Tone, 405
Imagery, 430
Tone, 443
Ezra Pound, In a Station…
www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems
/319.html
Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum
www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/Dulce
.html
Figurative
Language
Rubric
12
Figurative Language, 689, 706
Metaphor, 542
Simile, 536, 542, 689, 876
Alliteration, 691
Personification, 542, 876
Onomatopoeia, 691
Think as a Writer: Writing, Ch.22
Figurative
Language,
427
Symbols in
poetry, 403442
“Incident in a Rose Garden”
www.enotes.com/incident-rose/text-poem
“The Courage…Mother Had,”
www.answers.com/topic/the-couragethat-my-mother-had-poem-1
“My Papa’s Waltz,”
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/Virtualit/
poetry/waltz_elements/waltz_wordorder.h
tml
Grade 9 -- Unit 3: Poetry
Holt
Elements of Literature
9 Free Verse vs. Structured Verse
Power Notes, Collection 7, Elements 3 ppt:
free verse, rhymed verse
Audio Library, disc 12
Free verse, 1138, 531-32
“The Gift,” 544-545
Black Line
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Holt Elements of Language
Verse, 689
Reader’s
Handbook
Free Verse,
395, 428
4
Other Resources
“Hanging Fire,”
www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.
html?id=171288
“The Ball Poem,”
www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-ballpoem/
Lear, also search Poem, Glossary,
Limerick (there are 7 limericks)
www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.
html?id=81233
“A Lame Beggar”
www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.
html?id=173373 (Also, check Glossary,
Epigram at the Poetry Foundation site.
There are a number of epigram poems in
the archive.)
10 Paragraph Analysis of a Symbol
Power Notes, Collection 6, Elements ppt:
Symbolism and Collection 7, Workshop
ppt: Analyze a Poem
Presenting a Poem, 564
“The Road Not Taken,” 376
Oral Presentations, 600, 669-670, 798,
886
Writing a letter, 293, 333, 350
Think as a Writer: Grammar, Ch. 8
Symbols,
403-442
“One Perfect Rose,”
http://www.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/parker.ros
e.html
11 The Sonnet
Sonnet, 1144
“Once By the Pacific,” 498
“Romeo and Juliet,” 897
Prologue to Act I, 901
Prologue to Act II, 932
Lines 93-106 form a sonnet
Locating Facts, 509, 802, 805-807, 867
Bibliography Sources, 738
Reading Wrokshop Support, Ch. 28
Sonnet, 389
Billy Collins,
http://www.smith.edu/poetrycenter/poets/
sonnet.html
Shakespearean Sonnets,
www.clicknotes.com/romeo/Sonnet.html
Lesson Plan
www.edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_pl
an.asp?id=303
Grade 9 -- Unit 3: Poetry
Holt
Elements of Literature
12 Researching to Connect the Poet’s
World to Life
Black Line
Masters
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Holt Elements of Language
Reader’s
Handbook
Other Resources
Connecting Poet’s Life to Historical
Context,
www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_v
iew.asp?id=251
Citations,
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resourc
e/557/01/ and
http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/academic/
bib_builder/index.html
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