Modified Lesson Plan Template: POETRY STATIONS DAY

(POETRY WEEK)
Name: Hope Hemenway
Grade Level: 7th Grade
Objective (v. goal)
• The learner will (active/observable/measurable verb)...”
1. Comprehend theme within poetry
2. Identify figurative language within poetry

• TEKS

(4) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Poetry. Students understand, make inferences and

draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry and provide evidence from text to
support their understanding. Students are expected to analyze the importance of graphical
elements (e.g., capital letters, line length, word position) on the meaning of a poem.

(15) Writing/Literary Texts. Students write literary texts to express their ideas and feelings
about real or imagined people, events, and ideas. Students are expected to:

(B) write a poem using:

(i) poetic techniques (e.g., rhyme scheme, meter);

(ii) figurative language (e.g., personification, idioms, hyperbole); and

(iii) graphic elements (e.g., word position).

• CALP Vocabulary (key terms/phrases)

1. Poetry: literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of

feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively
or as a genre of literature.
2. Figurative language: figurative language is a distinction within some fields of
language analysis, in particular stylistics, rhetoric, and semantics
3. Imagery: visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
4. Metaphor: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or
action to which it is not literally applicable.
5. Simile: a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another
thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g.,
as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox )
 6. Alliteration: the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of
adjacent or closely connected words

Materials

For the students For the teacher

• ELA folders • Poetry station handouts
• Pen/pencil • Materials for poetry stations
(poetry copies and sticky notes,
butcher paper for graffiti wall,
words for found poetry, color
construction paper, scissors)

Procedures/Activities
Introduction/Anticipatory Set:
Independent or Group Practice/Elaboration:
Checking for Understanding:
• Students are required to keep any written work from each station in their ELA
folders for a “folder check” to be conducted within the next week (daily grade)