Two-Week Writing Course: Poetry

Day

Monday

Poetry
Introduction
Students will read
poetry from Shel
Week 1
Silverstein, Emily
Activity
Dickinson, and
others
Class will discuss
what makes a poem
effective
Students analyze
how Shel
Silversteins poems
and organized and
plan out one of their
own in a similar way

Week 2
Activity

Cause and Effect

Poem
Students will
learn to better
understand that
some poems do
not rhyme, but
rather are
descriptive.
Students will
practice writing
Bio-Poems, as
well as Cause and
Effect Poems

Tuesday

Wednesday

Poetry
Share/Discussion
Students will be bring
Writing Day
in a favorite poem
and share it with the
class
Students will share
their poems that
they wrote on
Monday

Prepositional
Phrase Poems
Discussion on the
Writing Day
uses of
prepositions,
adjectives, nouns,
and verbs in poems
Students will apply
the previous
discussion to the
information they
researched about
the Founding
Fathers and write
their 2 poems

Thursday

Writing
Day

Writing
Day

Friday
Bio-Poems
Students will be
taught that not
all poems are
organized like
Dickinsons or
Silversteins.
Students will be
taught about a
Bio-Poem, and
how it can be
used to describe
people we are
close to
Students will
write a poem
about a loved
one
Solidify!
Students will work in
groups to go over
their poems and
revise them
The class will
discuss when
specific poems are
the most useful
Students will share
their Prepositional
Phrase Poems in
groups to teach
other students
about the Founding
Father they were
assigned.