Lesson Main Focus & Activities Objectives Standards Assessment Interdisciplinary Technology Vocab

Integration
Connections

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.
Introduction to Unit: Students will be able Sticky note Music: The students Playing a Poetry
to identify prior 4.10 will be making the music video
What is Poetry? (Get By the end of the year,
knowledge of poetry connection between on Youtube
students interested) and correct read and comprehend
music and poetry. A
literature, including stories,
misconceptions they dramas, and poetry, in the
song is poetry, but
● Connection had about poetry with music
grades 4-5 text complexity
between band proficiently, with accompanying it.
music/poetry scaffolding as needed at
● What is Poetry? Students will be able the high end of the range. Exit slip
1 ● Browse poetry to produce a 3-word
books sentence to describe
● Circle Map Chart: poetry
“What is Poetry?”
● 3 word sentences
to describe
poetry

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Introduction to Art: The students Options: White space
4.10 will be focusing on
Poetry/Shape By the end of the year,
the “art” of poetry by Typing
(Logistics) read and comprehend
identifying how the
literature, including stories,
dramas, and poetry, in the
shape and space of https://www.p
● Rubric what the poem looks oetryoutloud.
grades 4-5 text complexity
distribution band proficiently, with like can affect the org/
○ Poet- scaffolding as needed at words itself.
tree the high end of the range.
2 ○ Flip
book
○ Poetry
slam
● Focused writing
● Shape of poetry
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Ideas/Meaning of Students will be able
2
Peeling the Reading: The Options: Theme
Poetry to identify the Determine a theme of a
Poem activity students will be
meaning/theme story, drama, or poem from reading poems and Typing
behind a poem using details in the text; summarize highlighting key
● POETS strategy the “Peeling the the text. details in the poem https://www.p
● Peeling the poem Poem” guide to identify the oetryoutloud.
activity CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5. theme. org/
5
Explain how a series of
chapters, scenes, or stanzas
fits together to provide the
overall structure of a
2 particular story, drama, or
poem.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.
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By the end of the year, read
and comprehend literature,
including stories, dramas,
and poetry, in the grades 4-5
text complexity band
proficiently, with scaffolding
as needed at the high end of
the range.

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Autobiography Students will be able Flip book Reading: The Option: Autobiography
to identify the 4.5 students will be
Poems Explain major differences
characteristics needed drawing from their Typing
between poems, drama,
in an autobiography prior knowledge of
● Introduce poem and then create
and prose, and refer to the
genres to support
autobiography -- their own using the
structural elements of
them in their
relate to genre poems (e.g., verse, rhythm,
outline given meter) and drama (e.g., understanding of
autobiography autobiography
casts of characters,
● Read
settings, descriptions, poems compared to
autobiography autobiography
3 dialogue, stage directions)
poem about me when writing or speaking books.
● Model how to about a text.
write an Social Studies: The
autobiography autobiography poem
poem using written by the class
historical figure as a model will be
● Give time to write about a historically
their own famous person.
autobiography
poem
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Rhyme/Rhyming Students will be able Flip book Science: The Option: Rhyme
to identify the 4.5 rhyming poem read
Poems Explain major differences
characteristics needed aloud at the Typing Rhythm
between poems, drama,
in a rhyming poem beginning of class is
● Read a rhyming and then create their
and prose, and refer to the
about science Meter
poem own using the outline
structural elements of
content.
● Give poems (e.g., verse, rhythm,
3 given
characteristics of meter) and drama (e.g.,
casts of characters,
a rhyming poem
settings, descriptions,
● Bring in an object
dialogue, stage directions)
for students to when writing or speaking
write a rhyming about a text.
poem about

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Alliteration/Free Students will be able Flip book Bible: Making the Options: Alliteration
to identify the 4.5 connection of poetry
Verse Explain major differences
characteristics needed to the Psalms and Typing Free Verse
between poems, drama,
in a free verse poem Proverbs in the Bible
● Read a free and then create their
and prose, and refer to the
and how that https://www.p Stanza/Verse
verse poem (use own
structural elements of
connects to us today oetryoutloud.
Psalms or poems (e.g., verse, rhythm,
meter) and drama (e.g., org/
Proverbs) Spelling: Try to use
casts of characters,
● Explain the as many of our
settings, descriptions,
characteristics of spelling words for
dialogue, stage directions)
a free verse when writing or speaking the week in our free
poem (can be about a text. verse poem (and it
about anything, still makes sense)
funny, sad,
4 serious)
● Explain
alliteration
● Use alliteration in
a free verse
poem
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Metaphors/Similes Students will be able Flip book Grammar: Learning Metaphor
to write a poem (their 4.5 the correct use and
Explain major differences
● Introduce choice) using a distinctive Simile
between poems, drama,
metaphors and metaphor or simile characteristics of
and prose, and refer to the
similes and the appropriately structural elements of
metaphors and
difference similes
4 poems (e.g., verse, rhythm,
● Give worksheet Students will be able meter) and drama (e.g., Worksheet
to differentiate to differentiate casts of characters,
between the two between a simile and settings, descriptions,
a metaphor dialogue, stage directions)
when writing or speaking
about a text.

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Personification/Haiku Students will be able Flip book Geography: Finding Option: Personifi-
to create a haiku 4.5 the location of Japan typing cation
Explain major differences
● Have students poem using the outline and recognizing that
between poems, drama,
identify given with the correct this is a common Haiku
and prose, and refer to the
characteristics characteristics structural elements of
type of poetry
humans can do poems (e.g., verse, rhythm,
written in this
(how can you get meter) and drama (e.g., country
5 across the room) casts of characters,
● Using items to settings, descriptions,
take on human dialogue, stage directions)
characteristics when writing or speaking
● Give example of about a text.
Haiku, model
5-7-5 syllable
outline

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Acrostic Poems Students will be able Flip book None Options: Acrostic
to create an acrostic 4.5
Explain major differences
● Show an example of poem using the outline between poems, drama, and
Typing
an acrostic poem given prose, and refer to the
● Explain what words
could be used as structural elements of poems https://www.p
5 (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) oetryoutloud.
acrostic poems (can
be phrases or words) and drama (e.g., casts of org/
● Give example using characters, settings,
my name descriptions, dialogue, stage
● POETRY (What is directions) when writing or
Poetry?) speaking about a text.

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Edit/Publish Students will be able Peer-editing Grammar: Students Typing Self-
to peer-edit their 4.5 worksheet correcting each evaluation
 ● Peer edit poems they want to With guidance and support others’ poetry using
● Hand write publish from peers and adults, D.O.L guidelines
develop and strengthen
poems on (punctuation,
writing as needed by
flipbook Students will be able Flip book & capitalization, run-on
planning, revising, and
● Type favorite/final to publish their final editing.
Poet-tree leaf sentences…)
poem on poems onto their flip
poet-tree leaf book and their
● Self-evaluate poet-tree leaf
using rubrics

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POETRY SLAM Students will be able Performance Could relate to all! Video Poetry slam
to perform proper 4.4.B (see rubric) Depends what reflection:
Read grade-level prose
● Students etiquette when content the poems students Etiquette
and poetry orally with
“perform” their listening to poetry the students have create video
accuracy, appropriate rate,
favorite poems and expression on
written are about :) to explain
they created or Students will be able successive readings.
how they felt
another poem to read/recite their Performance after their
they specifically pre-selected poem to CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL. performance
7 enjoyed the class 4.10
By the end of the year,
read and comprehend
literature, including stories,
dramas, and poetry, in the
grades 4-5 text complexity
band proficiently, with
scaffolding as needed at
the high end of the range.

*Lessons may take longer than one class period