Poetry By: Lindsay Brown

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PoetryBy Lindsay Brown

• Target Grade Level
• Grade 9-12, English

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Objectives

• Students will be able to compose a poem using a
  theme of their choice and then use the recording
  program Audacity, which was taught during the
  previous lesson, and use it to record the
  completed and edited poem and save it onto a CD.

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Introduce the Learning Activity

• I will begin class by engaging the students in a
  discussion about creativity (Traditional and
  Technological) and by using first the traditional
  method they will learn how to write and compose a
  poem.

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Introduce the Learning Activity Contd

• To further excite the students interested in this
  lesson, I will then tell them that upon
  completion of the written process of creating
  their poem, they will have the opportunity to use
  modern technology and record themselves reading
  their poem using the Audacity program.

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Provide Information

• I would start by reading a poem that I had
  previously written and stress the importance of
  vocal elocution when engaging an audience. I
  would then hand out a hard copy of the poem they
  have listened to so that they can read along with
  it while I replay an audio sample of the poem I
  have previously recorded using Audacity.

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Provide Information Contd

• Upon completion, I would discuss the poem with
  the students, emphasizing the literary techniques
  and elements involved in writing poetry, such as
  metaphor, simile and style components. I will
  also encourage them to use the procedure of
  brainstorming to develop concepts or topics for
  their poems.

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Provide Information Contd

• I will then demonstrate how to write a poem,
  allowing the students to verbally give me their
  ideas on what to write or ways to write it this
  demonstration will be a short poem, to be used as
  an example. Finally, I will revisit the program
  Audacity so that it is fresh in the students
  minds.

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Provide Information Contd

• Finally, the following website can be used in
  order to aid students when trying to create
  topics for poetry writing. The website provides
  creative tips on ways to get started writing a
  poem.
• http//www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Poem

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Provide Practice

• For the next two or three classes depending upon
  student progress, I will establish working groups
  of four students each, and keeping the same
  groups for each class period, each group will
  select a role that they will play within the
  group.

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Provide Practice Contd

• The roles within the groups are as follows one
  member writes the poem, one records it, one edits
  the recording and the last saves the work to a
  disk. They will repeat this practice four times,
  each time rotating so that every student in the
  group has the opportunity to work in each role.

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Provide Practice Contd

• Though the practice is done within groups, their
  task within the group is to be completed
  individually, for example, the group member with
  the task of writing the poem is to complete this
  by himself/herself.

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Provide Knowledge of Results

• As the students work within their groups, I will
  spend time with each group and observe each
  individual as they work and when required offer
  assistance to each group member. Since the main
  focus of this activity is the English/poetry
  aspect, I will focus more on that.

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Provide Knowledge of Results Contd

• As the students write their poems, I will ask
  them to read the poem and I will assist the
  students by giving verbal feedback on what they
  have done correctly and also what needs some
  improvements. I will also list some ideas on
  their work giving them suggestions on how they
  could improve their writing.

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Review the Activity

• To review the activity, at the end of the class I
  will have the students verbally summarize the
  main points in writing poetry. I will have them
  explain to me, and the rest of their classmates,
  the key components involved in poetry writing. I
  will do this in order to remind the students that
  the main focus and the important part of the
  activity is the poetry, that way they dont spend
  too much of their time focusing on the recording
  aspect.

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Assessment

• Assessment of the students is to be achieved by
  having the students individually compose and
  record a poem. Each individual will be
  responsible for completing each task within the
  developmental and recording process. They will
  write, edit, record, and save their work onto a
  CD, along with a hard copy of the poem they
  wrote, which will be submitted to me for
  evaluation.

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Assessment

• The recording quality will only account for a
  small percentage of each students final mark.
  Much of the focus and grading will be upon the
  quality of the written poem and how well the
  student has used the various writing components
  learned in class during the component of writing
  poetry.