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Lesson Plan: Barbara Crow Poetry
Subject Area: Literature - ND Authors Unit
Grade Level: Junior in High School
Time: One class period
Materials: Prairie Volcano: An Anthology of North Dakota Writers
Objectives: 1. After given examples and definitions during class students will be able to define the terms imagery and narrative in relationship to poetry with 95% accuracy.
2. Students will be able to orally give examples of imagery from the reading assignment with 100% accuracy.
3. Students will be able to write a poem that uses imagery with 85% accuracy using the poetry from their book and definitions of imagery given in class as guidelines.
Anticipatory Set: Have students sit in their desk with their eyes closed. Tell them to think of a memory in their life that they remember well; they should picture a scene from that time. They should be able to remember the smells, the colors, what are they hearing, the people that are in the room, what they are doing…etc… They can now open their eyes. They are to write in their journal about that memory using as many sensory descriptive words as possible. They will have ten minutes to work on this. (10 minutes)
Procedure of Lesson: Introduce terms for the reading material. Discuss poetry students read for today. "In This Room", "Visitation", and "Flight"
1. Present the terms imagery and narrative poem.
a. Imagery: is a description that appeals to one of the five senses. Using this senses it creates a picture or image for the reader
b. Narrative: a poem that tells a story with plot, setting and characters. (5 minutes)
2. Applying the terms to the reading assignment.
a. If you look at the poems that we read for today what are some of the ways the author used imagery in the three poems we read?
b. What visual pictures has the author created in the poems?
c. What are some descriptive words the author uses to create these images? What part of speech are these descriptive words?
d. Do you think that these poems qualify as narrative poems?
1. Do they tell a story? Can they tell a story by themselves or do they need to be read together?
2. What are the characters contained in the three poems that we read? Does the author use dialogue?
3. What place or places do these poems take place in? (15 minutes)
Check for Understanding: Have students orally explain a definition for the terms imagery and narrative poem. Make the students read sentences from the poem that illustrate the definition of the word imagery. (10 minutes)
Guided Practice: Have students take out the writing that they started at the beginning of class. Have them choose or make complete sentences from that writing and put it into poetry form. They are to create a poem that paints a picture of the memory that they had and tells a story. (10 minutes)
Closure: Thank them for participating in class discussion. Tell them the poems they worked on in class today are to be turned in by Friday.
Independent Practice: Finish working on imagery poems that they started in class.
Assessment: The students will be evaluated on a basis of the content of their poems. The assignment must tell a story, use description that appeals to the five senses and be in poetry form. If these criteria a met they will receive 25 out of 25 points. The poems will also be looked at for correct grammar and form, this will be corrected but if mistakes are found these mistakes will not affect their grade.
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