Lesson #1

Date: 11/09/2021 Teacher’s Name: Ms. Alexander

Subject: English Language Arts Grade level: 9th grade

Learning Segment Topic: Piecing together techniques of poetry, short stories, and artwork
with the outcome of a zine with the theme of celebrating YOU.
(This would be a four-week segment)

Length of each lesson: 50 minutes

Central Focus: Students will take a peek into what a zine looks like to gain insight into what
their finished product will be. Students will then learn about various poetry techniques. We
will look at poems to pull out poetic techniques in order to gain a better understanding of
how poetic techniques are used.

Essential Question(s): Why do we have different poetic techniques? Why do we need to know
multiple poetic techniques? Can we use multiple techniques in one poem?

Learning Standard: 9-10W4:

Create a poem, story, play, artwork, or other response to a text, author, theme or personal experience;
demonstrate knowledge and understanding of a variety of techniques and genres. Explain divergences
from the original when appropriate.

Pre-Assessment: Students will have prior knowledge of how to annotate and look for certain
ideas in a poem or text.

Differentiation:
For ELL students: These students will be given worksheets with vocabulary in their native
language with the following translations.

For blind or visually impaired students: Students will be paired with a buddy to read aloud
to them and answer the questions with them.

Students with dyslexia: will also be given a buddy to help read aloud to them and answer the
questions with them.

For students with ADD/ADHD/students who learn kinesthetically: Students will be placed to
work at a standing desk area if needed so they will have a better opportunity to focus
standing without having feet movement.
Academic Language Functions:
Comparing different versions of “I am” poetry.

Analyzing what “I am poetry” really means.

Day 1:

Learning Objectives: Students Assessments:

will be able to understand poetry
Worksheet- Definitions Sheet
techniques, they will also
compare and contrast poems Poem- Frost, “The Road Not
using the “I am” poems genre. Taken”
Students will self-reflect when Exit Ticket
writing their own.

Vocabulary:
Zine: is a small-circulation self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images.
Poetry Techniques: Poetic devices are a form of literary device used in poetry. A poem is
created out of poetic devices composite of: structural, grammatical, rhythmic, metrical, verbal,
and visual elements. They are essentially tools that a poet uses to create rhythm, enhance a
poem's meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling.
Repetition: An echo of words or sounds
Alliteration: the repetition of the first letter in a string of words
Smilie: A comparison between two things using the words “like” or “as”
Metaphor: a comparison that does not include the words “like” or “as”
Personification: Giving human qualities to animals or inanimate objects
Onomatopoeia: a word that imitates sounds
Parallelism: using phrasing that is grammatically similar or identical in structure, sound,
meaning, or meter.

Procedure:
Anticipatory Set: 10 minutes
1. Give students insight into what they will be learning.
a. Ask students if they have ever heard of a zine before.
 b. Give them the definition of a zine.
i. Zine: is a small-circulation self-published work of original or
appropriated texts and images.
c. Show them an example of three different zines.
d. Give them a mapped out example of the weekly process in the order they will
be completing the zine.
i. This first week will be poetry with “I am” and “Name poetry”

Celebratin
Initial Phase: 20 minutes
1. Showing students poetry technique vocabulary and definitions
2. Writing the words with class definitions on board or chart paper:
a. Repetition: An echo of words or sounds
b. Alliteration: the repetition of the first letter in a string of words
c. Smilie: A comparison between two things using the words “like” or “as”

g YOU.
d. Metaphor: a comparison that does not include the words “like” or “as”
e. Personification: Giving human qualities to animals or inanimate objects
f. Onomatopoeia: a word that imitates sounds
i. Have students fill in these definitions on a worksheet.
3. Put together students as partners and give them a poetry technique. Have them come
up with a sentence using their technique.

Middle Phase: 12 minutes

Piecing
1. We will read Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”
a. We will work as a class to pull out the different poetic elements.
b. I will call on students as we annotate the poem together.

Concluding Phase: 8 minutes

together
1. Overview of what we learned today:
a. Cold call on students to respond to what the different poetic devices are.
2. Exit ticket.

skills of
Follow up (homework):
Materials: Poem, worksheets, pen/pencils.

poetry,
short
 stories,
and
artwork
“I am”
with the
“Name”
Poetry
Short Story
writing TBD
Short
Story Art and Art and

outcome of
Poetry writing Writing Writing
TBD TBD TBD

Week 1:
Week 2: Week 3: Week 4: Week
What is a Zine?
Short Story Art and Writing Putting it all Zine
Poetry Lesson
Writing together Gala

a zine that
is all about
you.Outlin
e of
Completio
 n
Name:_________________________________________
Poetry Technique Worksheet

Repetition: ______________________________________________________________________

Alliteration:______________________________________________________________________

Smilie: __________________________________________________________________________

Metaphor: _______________________________________________________________________

Personification: __________________________________________________________________

Onomatopoeia:___________________________________________________________________

Other Vocabulary:

Zine:____________________________________________________________________________

I am Poetry:______________________________________________________________________

Name Poetry:_____________________________________________________________________

Self-Reflection:___________________________________________________________________

Other:
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The Road Not Taken

by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Name:____________________________________________ Date:______________
Exit ticket:
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
______________________________________________________________________________
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If you were writing a poem about a dog having human qualities, which poetic techniques
would you use?
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A little bit about you:

What is one adjective that describes you?
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