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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