Digital Unit Plan Template

Unit Title: Poetry

Name: Sofia Batrouni

Content Area: English (Language Arts)

Grade Level: Grade 7

CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):

RL 9-3.4: Analyze how tone, meaning, rhythm, figurative language, rhythm, repetition, line length,
and rhyme are conveyed in poetry.
RL 9-3.5: Explain the effects of common literary devices, such as symbolism, imagery, and metaphor) in
variety of poems.
Big Ideas:

1. Learn the different styles and forms of poetry

2. Learn about several authors of different centuries
Unit Goals and Objectives:
Unit Goals: The goal of this unit to help students analyze a poems of different styles and to learn the basic features of poetry,
such as the figures of speech.

Objectives: 1. Students will learn the main elements of poetry, such as metaphor, simile, and irony
2. Students will be able to analyze the author's tone and attitude, such as emotional,
dramatic, nostalgic, or aggressive
3. Analyze the poem's themes

Unit Summary:

This unit is about a literary response and analysis of the significant works of poetry in English Literature.
Through this unit, students will be able to express their own thoughts and analysis about the most
famous poets and their works. Most importantly, students will be introduced to variety of poetry styles of

William Shakespeare to Robert Frost. This will allow students to analyze poems of different centuries that
called for different themes and highlighted on vital issues. In turn, students will be able to understand
the importance of the main elements of poetry, such as metaphor, simile, and imagery. Also, this unit
contains activities, presentations, and lectures that help students write a literary response and analysis
of poems in an interesting and simple way.

Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level:

Formative:

Brainstorm: The importance of figures of

speech

Quiz: Poetry forms

Summative:

Flashcards: Identify the main terms of

poetry

Webercise: Poetry analysis and websites

that help understand the features of
poetry

Writing analysis paper for a poem

Test: Analyzing one of William

Shakespeares poems

Graphic Organizer: Using a Question It

Chart that provides tips for analyzing
poetry

Lesson 1
Student Learning
Objective:

Acceptable Evidence:
Students will show

Instructional
Strategies:
Communication

Lesson Activities:
Guided notes: Analyzing poem by Robert Frost through

1. Analyze a
poem
2. Identify the
figures of
speech
3. Write an
analysis
response of
the poem
4. Differentiate
between the
different types
of poetry
5. Identify the
speaker in the
poem
(Narrative
point of view)
6. Examine the
themes that
are
contributed in
the poem

that they met the

objectives of this
lesson through the
guided notes activity
which a reflection of
the presentation and
the lecture that I
introduced to the
students. Completing
this activity
successfully will
indicate that students
understood the poetry
terms well enough to
be able to analyze a
poem

Acceptable Evidence:

Instructional
Strategies:
Communication
Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization
Interaction

Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization
Interaction

answering the questions that are provided in the guided

notes

Lesson 2
Student Learning
Objective:
Complete a webercise
that has websites
which shows the
famous works of
Shakespeare and
apply poetry analysis
to the poem that this
included in the
webercise

Students will show

that they met the
objectives of this
lesson and its
strategies by being
able to complete
successfully the
webercise that asks
them to identify the
figures of speech and
other poetry features

Lesson Activities:
Completing the webercise through analyzing one of
Shakespeares poems. Each part of the webercise has poetry
terms and links that aid students in their poem analysis.
Students in this lesson should also view and check the links
provided in the webercise that help them understand poetry
terms and forms.

that are presented in

the poem. By doing
so, students will show
that they understood
the poetry terms
through this
interaction strategy
Lesson 3
Student Learning
Objective:
Understanding the
figures of speech in
an easy and
interesting way
through watching a
you tube video and
analyzing one of
Shakespeares poems
through a graphic
organizer that
provides tips for
poetry analysis

Acceptable Evidence:
Students will show
that they met the
objectives of this
lesson and its
strategies through
completing the
graphic organizer
clearly and
successfully after
watching the You-Tube
video that illustrates
the basic poetry
terms. Also when
students complete the
graphic organizer by
identifying the
features of the poem
that they are asked to
analyze, they will
show that they met
the objectives of the
interaction and
communication
stratgeies

Unit Resources:
http://poetry.org/whatis.htm

Instructional
Strategies:
Communication
Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization
Interaction

Lesson Activities:
In this lesson, students will watch a You-tube video that
shows the basic elements of poetry along with the definition
of these elements. Also, Students will complete a graphic
organizer about a poem called, Shall I Compare Thee to a
Summers Day?
Students have to analyze this poem by completing the
graphic organizer through analyzing the poetry terms in the
poem, such as tone, metaphor, style, and poems themes.

http://poetry.org/famous.htm
http://literary-devices.com/
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/751/1/
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/glossary-terms?category=techniques-and-figures-of-speech
http://www.mshogue.com/poetry/made_of.html#diction
http://www2.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de/intranet/englishbasics/PoetryVerseForm01.htm#couplet
http://poetry.eserver.org/sonnets/

Useful Websites:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/william-shakespeare
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/180775
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/glossary-terms?category=forms-and-types
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/glossary-terms?category=rhythm-and-meter