Title:



Understanding By Design

Lesson Plan Format

Title: rock garden poetry

Subject Matter Emphasis and Level: genre-poetry, 6th grade

Author: Terry

School District: Menno

Email: terry.quam@k12.sd.us

Brief Description of the Lesson/Unit:

Students have been introduced to haiku. This is their opportunity to write their own.

The students will write a poem. They will collect rocks, twigs, leaves, grass, and flowers. The students will write a haiku based on the elements of nature that they collected.

Stage 1: Identify Desired Results

1. What enduring understandings are desired?

Students will read various genres for enjoyment.(goal 1)

2. What essential questions will guide this unit and focus teaching/learning How does the arrangement of the poem tell me something about the poem? How does the poem set the mood of the author? How does the theme of nature create an image for the reader?

3. What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit? Students will use text structures and patterns in various literary texts to create meaning. Describe how meaning is conveyed in poetry through word choice, repetition and sensory words.

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4. What prior learning, interests, misconceptions, and conceptual difficulties might be brought to this unit?

Some students do not like poetry. Haiku has a rhythm and some students have difficulty with this concept. Some students may enjoy the rhythm.

Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence

1. What evidence will show that students understand?

Performance Tasks:

Use a model to write a haiku

Write a haiku based on the natural items collected

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Other Evidence:

Quizzes, Tests, Prompts, Work Samples (summarized):

Written poem.

Unprompted Evidence: (observations, dialogues, etc.)

Student interaction and discussion

Teacher observation of the activity

Student Self-Assessment

Peer editing

Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction

1. What sequence of teaching and learning experiences will equip students to develop and demonstrate the desired understandings?

Major Learning Activities:

Use various text structures in various literacy texts to create meaning

Write a haiku

Materials & Resources (technology & print):

Books on poetry and haiku

Posters

Children’s haiku garden- tecnet.or.jpl~haiku



Management:

2 days

one day to go and gather the nature materials

one day to write the haiku

Support Services and Special Teacher Notes:

ESA3 staff

Other language arts teachers

Extensions and Adaptation:

Could use another class period to have the students present their poems to the class or another class.

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