VITAL INFORMATION
Sabrina Hawkins
Language Arts (English)
Gaining comprehension skills needed for reading a poem, My Last Duchess.
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Students should learn to increase their comprehension skills by:
1. Students should be able to make their own predictions about a written work
while reading, this will be assessed in the poem they create.
2. Students should be able to compare and contrast different aspects of the
work, and their theories against their classmates theories. This will be assessed
by the blog posts the students leave for each other.
3. Students should be able to accurately recall from the text, previous readings
or other works that help improve meaning and predictions with 90% accuracy.
This will be shown by the comic strip.
4. Students should be able to discuss written work and summarize in a
meaningful, comprehensive way. This will be assessed in the class discussions
of their poems and what the poem turned out to mean.
5. Students should be able to make logical inferences about their readings with
evidence provided from the text. This will be shown in their comic strip.
6. Students should be able to make logical conclusions about the written work
based on the text. Again this is shown in the comic strip.
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IMPLEMENTATION
The teacher will handout the paper of only the first few lines of "My Last
Duchess."
The teacher will start the PowerPoint presentation.
The teacher will start the class by discussing reading styles, asking the
students questions about how they read.
The teacher will have the entire class do the first activity together, s/he will
read the short story aloud and ask the corresponding questions for the entire
class to agree on an answer.
The teacher will discuss how to read to comprehend by making predictions,
comparing/contrasting, recalling/summarizing, and making
conclusions/inferences.
The teacher will continue to follow the PowerPoint adding in sentences that
elaborate on the material on the slides.
The teacher will then instruct the students to read through the lines of the
handout and finish the poem the way they picture it using their predicting
skills. This is to be completed as homework for the next day. About a page in
length in poem format, but the poetic skills will not be assessed. The poem
should be posted as a blog and students will assess each others poems.
The next day the class will discuss their poems and why they chose the path
they did. The teacher will then show the last slide of the PowerPoint and have
the students create a comic strip to assess their recall and summary skills. The
full class period after the discussion of their poems will be given to create a
short comic strip.
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2 class periods. 50 Min. per class.
MATERIALS AND RESOURCES
1. PowerPoint presentation.
2. A poem in handout form: My Last Duchess by Robert Browning.
3. A handout of just the first few lines of the poem listed above.
STANDARDS & ASSESSMENT
OH- Ohio Academic Content Standards
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Subject : English Language Arts
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Standard : Reading Process: Concepts of Print, Comprehension Strategies,
and Self-Monitoring Strategies
Students develop and learn to apply strategies, such as predicting and recalling, that
help them to comprehend and interpret informational and literary texts. Reading and
learning to read are problem solving processes that require strategies for the reader to
make sense of written language and remain engaged with texts. Beginners develop
basic concepts about print (e.g., that print holds meaning) and how books work (e.g.,
text organization). As strategic readers, students learn to analyze and evaluate texts to
demonstrate their understanding of text. Additionally, students learn to self-monitor
their own comprehension by asking and answering questions about the text, selfcorrecting errors and assessing their own understanding. They apply these strategies
effectively to assigned and self-selected texts read in and out of the classroom.
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Grade : Grade Eleven
In Grades 8 through 12, students should read purposefully and automatically, using
the comprehension and self-monitoring strategies outlined in previous grades. As
they encounter increasingly challenging content-area and literary texts, students may
more consciously employ these strategies and benefit from teacher modeling of the
reading process.
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Area : Comprehension Strategies
Grade Level Indicator : 1: Apply reading comprehension strategies,
including making predictions, comparing and contrasting, recalling and
summarizing and making inferences and drawing conclusions.
1. The first part of the assignment is the poem the students will create by
using only the first few lines of the poem I assign.
2. The second part of the assignment is the blog posting of their poem and
the comments the students leave for each other.
3. The third part of this assignment is the comic strip which is completed
after the reading of the actual poem to show recall and summary skills.
Rubrics:
Blog for Poem comic strip My Last Duchess Poem