Media Curriculum Unit: Literature/Poetry Grades 4-5 (Lesson should coordinate with classroom teacher and the poetry unit in ILA/RLA )

Time frame: 4-5 media lessons

Lesson: Creating Poetry Ebooks

Essential Question: What are the Characteristics of Poetry?

Students will know

The characteristics of poetry

That listening to poetry provides examples of word choice, voice, tone and meaning

Writing of poetry can reflect personal experiences

Reading poetry aloud can enhance fluency

Students will be able to

Identify and describe a haiku, acrostic, free verse and shape poem

Create their own poem to contribute to a class book

Using power point, insert text, pictures, sound effects into a page to be added to the class book.

Assessment

Did student show the correct technique for their chose poetry form?

Did the student successfully place each item : title, poem, picture, sound, etc. in to the slide?

Lessons :

The classroom teacher will be concurrently teaching about different types of poetry. The students will write their own poetry in class.

The Media Specialist will

Share a variety of poetry books and poems during media classes.

Encourage the students to search for additional books using the online catalog

Introduce a number of interactive websites on poetry to the students

Create a Shape Poem http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/shape/ (date viewed 10/24/09) This website will be introduced during a whole class lesson. The apple shape will be used to demonstrate shape poems. The students can brainstorm as a group with guidance from the teacher to create a class shape poem.

Cinquain Poetry Form http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm (date visited 10/24/09) The media teacher will read a cinquain poem to the class. At this point, the class may already have learned about this form of poetry from the classroom teacher. As a whole group exercise the class will visit the website and create a cinquain poem about their class, grade, school life. If available, students may also visit the computer lab to go to the website and practice creating their own poetry using the various forms available

Interactive Poetry Forms http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm (date visited 10/24/09) This is the main website for the interactive poetry forms where the cinquain form can be found. There are many different types of poetry included which could be tailored to different lessons.

Students will be shown the cinquain graphic organizer included with this lesson and have the opportunity to create a cinquain.

Acrostic Poetry http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/acrostic/ (date visted 10/24/09)

Students can visit the tutorial on acrostic poetry during a whole group activity. Students can create their own acrostic poems on –line.

Haiku

Media Specialist will read the book Dogku but Andrew Clements and have a selection of other haiku available to individual students to read aloud. Discuss the elements of haiku and help students recognize what makes a haiku poetry

• Very short: just three lines usually fewer than twenty syllables long.
• Descriptive: most haiku focus on a detail of nature or everyday life.
• Personal: most haiku express a reaction to or reflection on what is described.
• Divided into two parts: as they read haiku aloud, students should find that each includes a turning point, often marked by a dash or colon, where the poet shifts from description to reflection, or shifts from close-up to a broader perspective.

Form: Traditional Japanese haiku have seventeen syllables divided into three lines of five syllables, seven syllables, and five syllables respectively. These syllable counts are often ignored when haiku are written in other languages, but the basic form of three short lines, with the middle line slightly longer than the other two, is usually observed.

Once students have become familiar with the different types of poetry and had a chance to create their own poems they will visit the computer lab with the media teacher and classroom teacher if applicable to create a power point of their poem. The power point can include any graphics, pictures or sound selected by the students. Once the power point is complete it will be assembled by the media teacher into an e-book format for a poetry celebration where the poems will be shown and read by the authors. The book could then be added to the media website on a student author link

Cinquain: 5 Line Poem that Describes a Person, Place or Thing (Noun)

Cinquain Graphic Organizer

						One word that tells what your poem is about
					Two words that describe your subject
					Three action words that describe something your subject does
					A phrase that describes something else about your subject
				One or two words that rename what your poem is about (synonym)