Patterns in Poetry: Images Lesson Plan Information | Lesson Plan Activities | Printable version (including handouts) (PDF)

Standard: Read with Understanding Outcomes Students will recognize the use of images, metaphors, and symbols in poetry and how they contribute to understanding the poem.

Classroom Information

GED Descriptors:      Language Arts - Reading Roles:      Family, Community Member Program Type(s)      ABE, GED, Urban, Rural, Corrections NRS Learner levels (ABE/GED)       1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Time frame:       1 hour Technology Integration The Library of Congress Google Images OLRC Poetry Matrix

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Standard: Read with Understanding

Component of Performance How activity addresses component Determine the reading purpose Students will practice finding and labeling images, metaphors, and symbols using everyday objects before reading poems with the purpose of recognizing these elements. Select reading strategies appropriate to the purpose Students will practice finding the concrete details or context clues that contribute to the images in a poem and to see how the details are often compared in metaphors and sometimes generalized in symbols. Monitor comprehension and adjust reading strategies Students will have the opportunity to hear poems read aloud before reading them aloud together with their classmates. They may work in pairs for additional support in understanding the poem as a whole. Analyze information and reflect on its underlying meaning Students will learn to recognize images, metaphors, and symbols and how these elements function in understanding the poems. Integrate it with prior knowledge to address reading purpose Students will have the opportunity to apply and integrate what they have learned about images, metaphors and symbols (and meter, rhyme, alliteration and assonance if they have completed the previous two lessons) to understand a new poem of their choice.

Purposeful, Transparent, Building Expertise

Purposeful and Transparent Listening, reading, and discussion of the images in poetry will help them understand how the components of poetry contribute to a comprehension the poem as a whole. Since image, metaphor, and symbol will be tested in the Language arts Section of the GED, students will be better prepared by being familiar with a variety of poems. Contextual Since we live in a world of images, students can apply what they learn about images in poetry to literature generally and to the images on TV, magazines, and computers. Building Expertise The progression of listening first, then reading before discussing encourages repeated attention to the material. Listening and reading aloud reinforces comprehension skills. Working in pairs or small groups maximizes the pleasure and minimizes the anxiety that poetry can evoke.

Lesson Designer Connie Sapin Ohio Literacy Resource Center (330) 672-0761 csapin@literacy.kent.edu

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