Poetry: Day 12
Do Now: Who are hip-hop of rap artists that have flow? What is flow?
Critical Thinking Questions: How do poets use meter in their writing to make it sound better? What is a free verse poem? How is free verse different from a poem that has a form?
Content: “All Falls Down” by Kanye West, “Mother to Son” and “April Rain Song” by Langston Hughes, and “Under the Greenwood Tree” by Shakespeare
Objective: Students will recognize the differences and similarities between free verse and formed poetry and will be able to recognize the rhyme scheme and meter of poems that they read and write. Students will also write their own “Mother to Son” poem.
Class Activities: Comparing Kanye’s meter to Shakespeare’s meter, Recognizing Free Verse Poetry, Writing Daughter/Son to Parent Poems in free verse.
Homework: Finish the relationship poems that we began writing in class.
Do Now: Who are hip-hop of rap artists that have flow? What is flow?
Critical Thinking Questions: How do poets use meter in their writing to make it sound better? What is a free verse poem? How is free verse different from a poem that has a form?
Content: “All Falls Down” by Kanye West, “Mother to Son” and “April Rain Song” by Langston Hughes, and “Under the Greenwood Tree” by Shakespeare
Objective: Students will recognize the differences and similarities between free verse and formed poetry and will be able to recognize the rhyme scheme and meter of poems that they read and write. Students will also write their own “Mother to Son” poem.
Class Activities: Comparing Kanye’s meter to Shakespeare’s meter, Recognizing Free Verse Poetry, Writing Daughter/Son to Parent Poems in free verse.
Homework: Finish the relationship poems that we began writing in class.
