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1. Poetry Unit Plan
MARCI PALMER
CI 350

2. Analyze the Learner
 I will be teaching a unit on poetry to a sixth grade class. There are ten girls
and nine boys; 85% of them are white and 15% are African-American. Five
of the students belong to the gifted program, and three have ADD.

3. Main Objective
 My students will be able to identify characteristics of five different forms of
poetry, and they will identify things like alliteration, similie, metaphor,
rhyme scheme, etc., within the poems. They will be able to do this by
reading and writing poems, hearing songs, doing group discussions, and
doing puzzles by the end of the week with 80% accuracy.

4. Day by Day Breakdown
 Day One – Ballads
 Day Two – Sonnets
 Day Three – Haikus
 Day Four – Limericks
 Day Five – Free Verse

5. Use of Technology
 We will listen each day to an example of the poetry we will be covering
that day. The students will complete two webquests, one at the beginning
of the unit and one at the end. We will be using a class blog to conduct
class discussion. We will listen to a podcast of the vocabulary terms for the
unit.

6. Works Cited
 Murfin, Ross C., and Supryia M. Ray. The Bedford Glossary of Critical and
Literary Terms. 3rd ed. Bedford, 2009. Print.
 Poets.org. Academy of American Poets, n.d. Web. 22 Sept. 2014.