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Date:
Brandy Old
October 20, 2015
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
GLO 4: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to enhance the clarity
and artistry of communication.
SLO 4.1: Enhance and improve
GLO 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to comprehend and
respond personally and critically to oral, print, and other media texts.
SLO 2.3: Understand forms, elements, and technique
SLO 2.4: Create original text
Students will:
1. Use prior knowledge to relate poetry to daily lives
2. Demonstrate an understanding of elements in a poem
3. Identify the format of clerihew poem
ASSESSMENTS
Observations:
Key Questions:
Products/Performan
ces:
Students are using information from Lesson 1 and Lesson 2 to help them
write their poem.
Students are using words that they know.
Students are completing fractured poems in a way that has both meaning
to them and makes sense.
Students are using rhyming words in appropriate places throughout their
poems.
What is a clerihew poem?
Think of some places that youve seen poetry. What are they?
Why is poetry important?
What is a fractured poem?
How many lines are in a clerihew?
What are some elements of poems that we have learned about
that are in clerihew poems?
Complete fractured poems
Begin to write a clerihew poem (PERFORMANCE TASK will be
completed in next class)
PROCEDURE
Attention Grabber
Introduction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AaFtT_M39Q play the
funny poem
Time
1 min
Learning Activity
#1
Assessments/
Differentiation
Explain to the students that not all poems are serious, funny,
or just nursery rhymes. People write all kinds of poems. Today
we will learn about a clerihew. With an elbow partner, discuss
what you think a clerihew is and why.
Allow students to 1 min to discuss and 1 min to share.
Body
Discuss rhyming lists from last class if words do not rhyme on
the list. Praise students if all of them rhyme.
Teach students what a clerihew poem is. See powerpoint.
After instruction ask:
Questions: What is a clerihew poem?
Was your prediction about what a clerihew was close to
what it really is?
How many lines are in a clerihew?
What are some elements of poems that we have learned
about that are in a clerihew poem?
*These questions will be answered independently on
white boards. Once they have written down their
answers they will hold it to their chest until everyone
has written their answer*
Assessment: (Formative) Ask students key questions about
clerihews.
2 min
Time
10 min
Learning Activity
#2
Assessments/
Differentiation
12 min
Learning Activity
#3
Assessments/
Differentiation
Assessment of
Learning:
Transition To Next
Lesson