Lord Byron
Date
Housekeeping
3/3/08
Attendance
Monday
Student/Classroom Description
Actual: Microteaching in a classroom at
Univ. High School; 3 other education
majors with above average ability
(Hand out Peer Evaluation Forms)
Files to open: Lord Byron PowerPoint
Pretend: AP Literature from 10-11 am;
Students are juniors
Gender: 7 males and 14 females
Ethnicities: 16 Caucasians, 3 Asian
Am., 1 Hispanic, and 1 African Am.
No Known Exceptionalities
Description/Rationale
Illinois State Learning Standards
This lesson unit will introduce the students to the 18th
century poet Lord Byron (George Gordon) and a selection of
his poems. As an AP class, this lesson unit will help to
prepare the students for their AP exam and college
placement tests.
2.A.5a Compare and evaluate oral,
written or viewed works from various
eras and traditions and analyze
complex literary devices (e.g.,
structures, images, forms,
foreshadowing, flashbacks, stream of
consciousness).
2.A.5c Analyze the development of
form (e.g., short stories, essays,
speeches, poetry, plays, novels) and
purpose in American literature and
literature of other countries.
Prior Lesson: The students will have just finished a few
lessons on basic poetry elements (forms, styles, etc).
Subsequent Lesson: The students will research and learn
more about the poets of the 18th and 19th centuries to
continue the unit on poetry.
Materials & Equipment
Lesson Objectives
-Notes
-Computer with projector for
PowerPoint
-Handouts for students
-Lord Byron Handout
-Lord Byron Poems
1. After the lesson, the students will be able to identify
examples of poetry elements in Lord Byron’s poems.
Lesson
Content
Teaching
Methods
Utilized
2. Given samples of poets’ poems from this era, students will be
able to compare and contrast the different forms and styles of
the poems using the terms learned from previous lessons.
Set Induction
Review material from previous lesson on elements of poetry:
“Can someone tell me what ‘end-rhyme’ is in poetry?” (Wait for answer) “What is
‘rhyming pattern’?” (Wait for answer) (Review/repeat definitions of any terms that
still seem unfamiliar.)
*See Lord Byron PowerPoint (Review slides)—view after asking above questions
Content/Activities
Set Ind.
(<5 min)
Set Induction: (See above)
Transition
“We’re going to start a unit now on 18th and 19th century poets, and take a closer look at
the forms and styles of their poetry. One of the poets from this time period is Lord
Byron.”
*Pass out ‘Lord Byron Handout’ while giving directions: “This is a worksheet that I
want you all to fill out while we go through the PowerPoint. It is a quick presentation,
only a few slides, and it’s word-for-word with the handout I’m giving you, so just fill in
the blanks with the information that is missing. You should make sure that you save
these with all of your notes for our class discussions later and also as a study guide for
our test. Don’t forget to write your name at the top.”
*Begin Lord Byron PowerPoint
*See ‘PowerPoint and Teacher Notes’
Lecture
with
PowerPoint
(5-10 min)
Who is Lord Byron? What influenced his writing? What are some of his most famous
poems?
Transition
“So now that we know more a little more about Lord Byron, let’s see if we can identify
some of specific elements in his poetry.”
Class
Activity
(10-15 min)
*Hand out ‘Lord Byron Poems’
*Ask for two volunteers to each read one of his poems.
*Questions to ask after poems are read – see ‘Lord Byron Poems – Teacher Notes’:
1. “Can you see examples of end-rhyme in his poems?”
“What about the rhyming pattern in each poem—do you think it changes the flow or
emotion of the poem to use different patterns like Bryon did? How so? Why?”
“Let’s identify the rhyming pattern in ‘She Walks In Beauty.” (Answers on Lord
Byron Poems – Teacher Notes sheet).
2. “How many stanzas does each poem have?”
“How does the number of stanzas and number of lines in each stanza affect the
poem?”
3. “Some words we may not be familiar with in ‘She Walks In Beauty’ are ‘climes’,
which means ‘climate’ and ‘aspect’ which means appearance.”
“Some words we may not be familiar with in ‘When We Two Parted’ are ‘knell’, which
means a ‘ring or a bell toll’, like for a funeral and the word ‘rue’, which means
‘regret’.”
4. “How do you think a nighttime scene in ‘She Walks In Beauty’ compares to a daytime
scene in ‘When We Two Parted’? Is this unusual, to associate night with beauty and
daytime with sadness or a ‘chill’?”
5. “How do you think the woman in the first poem differs from the woman in the
second poem?”
Closure
(less than 2
min)
*Ask Review Questions (See Closure section)
*Assign homework (See Homework section)
Assessment
Closure
Informal: Review will allow me to see who understood the
previous lesson on poetry elements and whether or not to
continue with today’s lesson.
Review Questions:
Formal: Students will complete homework assignment (10
points possible: 5 for paragraph on poet, 5 for copy of poet’s
poem). This will introduce them to a few of the poets we’ll
discuss in class the day they turn it in.
1. “I need someone to give me an
example of end-rhyme in Byron’s poem
‘When We Two Parted’.”
2. “Can I have someone give me an
example of end-rhyme from ‘She Walks
In Beauty’.”
3. “Now I need someone else to tell me
the rhyming pattern for ‘When We Two
Parted’. Everyone else should be
writing down the letters next to the
lines on your own papers just like we
did for ‘She Walks In Beauty’.”
Homework/Independent Practice/Guided Practice
“For homework tonight, you need to research another poet
from the 18th or 19th century and bring in a copy of one of
his/her poems. Write one to two paragraphs about your
poet’s life or style of poetry to share with the class. If your
poem has end-rhyme, figure out the rhyming pattern and
write the corresponding letters in the margins.”
Adaptations for an Inclusive
Environment
The Lord Byron Handout will allow
students to follow the lecture individually
and provide a source of future reference.
*Assign Homework
Plan B
If the PowerPoint doesn’t open, the
students will complete the worksheet
by listening to a lecture on Lord Byron
instead.
(See notes)