Lesson 4 – Who Am I Communally/Socially?
Goal/Objectives – As students further develop reading readiness and listening skills, rhyming and vocabulary will be enhanced as students complete rhymes and create their own couplets.
Time – 2 class periods
Materials Needed –The movie “Annie”, Paper, Pen/Pencil
Process –
- Students will see a film clip from the movie “Annie”. (She is a leader in the orphanage, every little girl looks up to her and tries to help her out.)
- I will introduce what a couplet poem is (A couplet is two lines of verse that usually rhyme and state one complete idea.)
- Students will create a couplet poem about how they view themselves communally/socially.
- After each student has his/her couplet created, the class will get into groups of 5 and share poems within the group. Together, they will read, edit, and revise one another’s poems.
- After the groups have finished revising, each student can rewrite his/her poem. At this point, every student should have been given the chance to P.O.W.E.R. his/her poem.
- When the final poems are completed, students may volunteer to read them in front of the entire class.
Assessment – The students will be assessed by how well they P.A.C.E. themselves. P.A.C.E. stands for Product, Analytical Process, Contribution, and Engagement. A 4 point rubric works well for this purpose, covering each characteristic of P.A.C.E.
Enrichment – Poetry is an area where students may take it upon themselves to excel by their own standards. Because this is creative writing, any child can freely write whatever they would like. To expand student’s horizons, I would allow for students to explore other forms of poetry other than what I introduce in class, if they are willing to share what they have discovered with the other students. By having an advanced student tell the class what he/she has discovered, everyone can benefit from one’s enrichment assignment.