Poetry Unit

Grade Level:

3

Subject:

Language Arts

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Goal Summary:

Students will create a portfolio of poems (rhyming, haiku, found poem, research poem, Bio poem, Cinquain, free verse). Students will be able to use a rhyming dictionary to assist in writing rhyming poems. Students will be able to identify parts of a poem and answer questions about poems.
Students will compare and contrast ideas in a poem and make conniptions to their own personal experiences and points of view.
Students will identify main idea, author's purpose, mood and theme of poem.

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Essential Questions:

What is alliteration?
What is rhyme?
What are adjectives and adverbs?
What are rhyme schemes?
What are lines and stanzas?
What have you learned about poetry?
What is the main idea?
What is mood and theme?
What is a diamante poem?
How do you compare and contrast poems?
How do illustrations help you understand a poem?
What is point of view?
What is an acrostic poem?
What is a bio poem?
What is a free verse poem?
What is a chinquain poem?
What is a shape poem?
What are ways to publish your poetry?

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Content Goals:

The students will identify regular beats, rhymes, stanzas, lines and repetition in poetry.
2. The students will identify the main idea, theme and mood of a poem.
3. The students will identify the author’s purpose of the poem.
4. The students will use personal experiences or gather information in order to write poetry.
5. The students will ask and answer questions about a poem.
6. The students will compare and contrast poems by the same author or on the same topic.
7. The students will compare and contrast the point of view of the author to their own personal point of view.

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