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Teacher: Stephanie Wade |
Mentor: Barbara Culp |
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Subject: English I |
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Lesson Title: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" Day 1 |
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Objectives:
Students will learn how similies, metaphors, and personification enhances the readers' understanding of poetry using "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" as an example. |
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TEKS |
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No standards added.
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Materials:
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" poem and worksheet
Study Sheet-Similies, Metaphors, and Personification
Computers
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Motivation:
poems, personal experience, creative expression.
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| Teaching Procedure |
Bellwork:
Journal Entry- Briefly describe a time in your life when you were happiest. Now, briefly describe a time when you were saddest. These times can be a result of a location, activity, or the company you keep. |
Anticipatory Set:
Tell students that they will be learning about literary terms and how they will be able to encorporate them in their discussion of poetry. |
The Lesson:
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Students will be divided into groups and assigned a computer after the teacher hands out papers and explains the activity.
Guided Practice |
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Groups will find examples of each term and write them down.
Independent Practice with Active Participation |
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Students will share their discoveries with the class.
Guided Practice with Active Participation |
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Students will be read "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by the teacher
Guided Practice |
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Students will fill out the "Cloud" metaphors, similies and personification worksheet
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Closure (Student-centered):
Class will rejoin as a whole and discuss what they have learned today and how it helped them. Discuss how today's lesson will build on tomorrow's.
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Lesson Extension and/or Modification:
Extensions-- Extra Cloud worksheet
Modification--extra time/homework
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Assessment of Learning:
completion of group work and worksheet
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