English Language Arts: Poetry
Big Idea (5+6): Language and text can be a source of creativity and joy
Content (5+6): Story/Text - Literary Devices: sensory detail (e.g., imagery, sound devices), and figurative language (e.g., metaphor, simile)
Content (5+6): Story/Text – text features
Content (5+6): Story/Text – functions
Content (5+6): Strategies and Processes – writing processes
Content (5+6): Strategies and Processes – oral language strategies
Curricular Competency (5+6): Comprehend and Connect: Recognize and appreciate how different features, forms, and genres of texts reflect various purposes, audiences, and messages
Curricular Competency (5): Comprehend and Connect: Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts
Curricular Competency (6): Comprehend and Connect: Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world
Curricular Competency (5): Comprehend and Connect: Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways
Curricular Competency (6): Comprehend and Connect: Understand how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning
Curricular Competency (5): Comprehend and Connect: Recognize an increasing range of text structures and how they contribute to meaning
Curricular Competency (5): Create and Communicate: Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful literary and informational texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
Curricular Competency (5): Create and Communicate: Transform ideas and information to create original texts
Curricular Competency (5): Create and Communicate: Exchange ideas and perspectives to build shared understanding
First Peoples Principles of Learning: Learning is reflective
What is Poetry? (Stanza, rhythm, line length, rhyme)
Curricular Competency (5+6): Comprehend and Connect: Recognize and appreciate how different features, forms, and genres of texts reflect various purposes, audiences, and messages
What is Poetry? Types of Poems
Curricular Competency (5+6): Comprehend and Connect: Recognize and appreciate how different features, forms, and genres of texts reflect various purposes, audiences, and messages
Magnetic Poetry. Free Verse
Curricular Competency (5+6): Comprehend and Connect: Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world
Magnetic Poetry. Free Verse
Curricular Competency (5+6): Create and Communicate: Exchange ideas and perspectives to build shared understanding
Curricular Competency (5+6): Comprehend and Connect: Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world
Found Poetry
Curricular Competency (5+6): Comprehend and Connect: Recognize an increasing range of text structures and how they contribute to meaning
Write a class poem. Theme.
Curricular Competency (5+6): Comprehend and Connect: Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts
Symbolism
Curricular Competency (5+6): Comprehend and Connect: Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts
Concrete poetry
Curricular Competency (5+6): Comprehend and Connect: Recognize and appreciate how different features, forms, and genres of texts reflect various purposes, audiences, and messages
Metaphor
Curricular Competency (5+6): Comprehend and Connect: Understand how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning
Simile
Curricular Competency (5+6): Comprehend and Connect: Understand how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning
Sonnet. Personnification
Curricular Competency (5+6): Comprehend and Connect: Understand how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning
Haiku. Imagery. Onomatopoeia
Curricular Competency (5+6): Comprehend and Connect: Understand how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning
Song lyrics. Allusion
Curricular Competency (5+6): Comprehend and Connect: Understand how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning
Cacophony. Euphony.
Curricular Competency (5+6): Comprehend and Connect: Understand how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning
Alliteration. Assonance. Consonance.
Curricular Competency (5+6): Comprehend and Connect: Understand how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning
Rhyme
Curricular Competency (5+6): Comprehend and Connect: Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts
Colour Marking
Curricular Competency (5+6): Comprehend and Connect: Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts
Write Your Own Poem
Curricular Competency (5+6): Create and Communicate: Transform ideas and information to create original texts
Curricular Competency (5+6): Create and Communicate: Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful literary and informational texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
Curricular Competency (5+6): Comprehend and Connect: Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways
Analyze Own Poem
Curricular Competency (5+6): Comprehend and Connect: Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts
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Share Own Poem
Content (5+6): Strategies and Processes – oral language strategies
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Reflection Conversation
Content (5+6): Strategies and Processes – oral language strategies
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