Unit 1 Plan - Poetry
Overall Expectations:
By the end of this unit you will be able to:
1. Read for meaning and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of poetry texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning;
2. Recognize and understand a variety of poetic forms, their textual features and stylistic elements, and be able to demonstrate understanding of how they help to communicate meaning;
3. Use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently;
4. Reflect on and identify your strengths as readers, areas for improvement, and the strategies you found most helpful before, during, and after reading.
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Lesson Title |
Specific Expectations |
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3 hrs. |
1 |
What is Poetry? & What Is It Good For? |
READING: 1.2 students select and use, with increasing facility, the most appropriate reading comprehension strategies to understand a text; 1.3 identify the most important ideas and supporting details in texts; 1.4 make and explain inferences of increasing subtlety and insight about a text, supporting explanations with well-chosen stated and implied ideas from the text; 1.5 students extend understanding of texts by making rich and increasingly insightful connections between the ideas in them and personal knowledge, experience, and insights, other texts, and the world around them |
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3 hrs. |
2 |
Types of Poetry (The Genres) From 3 lines to 30,000 lines |
READING: 1.1 students read a variety of selected texts from diverse cultures and historical periods, identifying specific purposes for reading; 1.6 students analyze poems in terms of the information, ideas, issues, or themes they explore, examining how various aspects of the poem contribute to the presentation or development of these elements (e.g. analyze how literary devices are used to illuminate a theme; track significant words or images to determine how they are used to reinforce certain themes and ideas. |
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3 hrs. |
3 |
The Architecture of Poetry PART #1
The TPCAST Analytical System |
READING: 1.3 identify the most important ideas and supporting details in texts; 1.4 make and explain inferences of increasing subtlety and insight about a text, supporting explanations with well-chosen stated and implied ideas from the text; 1.8 identify and analyse the perspectives and/or biases evident in poems, including complex and challenging texts, commenting with understanding and increasing insight on any questions that may raise about beliefs, values, identity, and power; 3.3 regularly use a variety of strategies to explore and expand vocabulary, discerning shades of meaning and assessing the precision with which words are used in the poems they are reading. |
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3 hrs. |
4 |
The Architecture of Poetry PART #2 Literary Devices |
READING: 1.6 analyse poems in terms of the information, ideas, issues, or themes they explore, examining how various aspects of the text contribute to the presentation or development of these elements; 2.3 identify a variety of elements of style in poems and explain how they help communicate meaning and enhance the effectiveness of the text; 3.3 regularly use a variety of strategies to explore and expand vocabulary, discerning shades of meaning and assessing the precision with which literary devices are used in the texts they are reading. |
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3 hrs. |
5 |
Is Poetry Dead? The Past, Present and Future of Poetry and Unit Evaluation: OF Learning |
READING: 1.5 students extend their understanding of poetry by making rich and increasingly insightful connections between the ideas in them and personal knowledge, experience, and insights, other texts, and the world around them; 1.8 identify and analyze the perspectives and/or biases evident in poems, including complex and challenging texts, commenting with understanding and increasing insight on any questions that may raise about beliefs, values, identity, and power; |
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