CURRICULUM MAP: 10010.map
English Senior Elective: Poetry (ACP/SCP) 119, 120
Overview
TIME FRAME: 1 quarter (9 weeks)
GRADE: 12
CONTACT:
MAP LEVEL: 4
23.1 LANGUAGE ARTS - READING AND RESPONDING
23.1.1.9.1
-- Students will activate prior knowledge, establish purposes for reading and adjust the purposes while reading.
23.1.1.9.2
-- Students will determine and apply the most effective means of monitoring comprehension and apply the appropriate strategies.
23.1.1.9.5
-- Students will draw conclusions and use evidence to substantiate them by using texts heard, read and viewed.
23.1.1.9.6
-- Students will make and justify inferences from explicit and or implicit information.
23.1.2.9.1
-- Students will generate and respond to questions.
23.1.2.9.2
-- Students will interpret information that is implied in a text.
23.1 LANGUAGE ARTS - READING AND RESPONDING
23.1.2.9.4
-- Students will make, support and defend judgments about texts.
23.1.2.9.5
-- Students will discuss and respond to texts by making text-to-self, text-to-text and text-to-world connections.
23.1.2.9.6
-- Students will identify and discuss the underlying theme or main idea in texts.
23.1.2.9.7
-- Students will choose a variety of genres to read for personal enjoyment.
23.1.3.9.3
-- Students will analyze the meaning of words and phrases in context.
23.1.3.9.4
-- Students will develop vocabulary through listening, speaking, reading and writing.
23.1 LANGUAGE ARTS - READING AND RESPONDING
23.1.3.9.5
-- Students will use content vocabulary appropriately and accurately (math, music, science, social studies, etc.).
23.1.4.9.1
-- Students will respond to the ideas of others and recognize the validity of differing views.
23.1.4.9.2
-- Students will persuade listeners about understandings and judgments of works read, written and viewed.
23.2 LANGUAGE ARTS - EXPLORE AND RESPOND TO LITER
23.2.1.9.1
-- Students will identify the various conventions within a genre and apply this understanding to the evaluation of the text.
23.2.1.9.3
-- Students will explain and explore their own and others’ aesthetic reactions to texts.
23.2.1.9.4
-- Students will analyze literary conventions and devices an author uses and how they contribute meaning and appeal.
23.2.2.9.1
-- Students will develop and defend multiple responses to literature using individual connections and relevant text references.
23.2.2.9.2
-- Students will develop a critical stance and cite evidence to support the stance.
23.2.3.9.3
-- Students will create responses to texts and examine each work's contributions to an understanding of human experience across cultures.
23.3 LANGUAGE ARTS - COMMUNICATING WITH OTHERS
23.3.1.9.2
-- Students will listen to or read a variety of genres to use as models for writing in different modes.
23.3.1.9.3
-- Students will use the appropriate features of persuasive, narrative, expository or poetic writing.
23.3.1.9.4
-- Students will write to delight in the imagination.
23.3.2.9.1
-- Students will determine purpose, point of view and audience, and choose an appropriate written, oral or visual format.
23.3.2.9.2
-- Students will apply the most effective processes to create and present a written, oral or visual piece.
23.3.2.9.6
-- Students will publish and/or present final products in a myriad of ways, including the use of the arts and technology.
What defines poetry as a genre?
What techniques and stylistic elements are used effectively by poets to create meaning?
How is form used to reinforce content?
What techniques and stylistic elements define each student's personal style?
Understanding poetry is one of the most challenging aspects in literature as a single word, or even the absence of a word can create the most significant meaning. In this course, students will learn strategies and techniques to better understand the mysteries within the genre. Students will learn about the prose sense, sounds, images, rhythms, and literary devices utilized in poetry. They will learn to analyze and understand the relationship between form and content. They will ultimately learn to understand and appreciate the beauty and complexity of poetry.
Students in Senior Elective: Poetry will develop the ability to:
-- understand the function the following terms: allegory, alliteration, allusion, anapest, apostrophe, assonance, ballad, blank verse, caesura, couplet, conceit, consonance, dactyl, end rime, end-stopped line, epic, exact rime, falling meter, feminine rime, free verse, found poetry, heptameter, heroic couplet, hexameter, hyperbole, iambic meter, imagery, internal rime, irony, limerick, lyric, masculine rime, metaphor, meter. metonymy, monometer, narrative poetry, octameter, octave, onomatopoeia, pathetic fallacy pentameter, personification, pun, rhythm, run-on line, satiric poetry, sestet, sestina, simile, sonnet, stanza, symbol, terza rima, trope, tone,
-- identify and understand the function of literary devices,
-- identify and understand the techniques and function of rime,
-- identify and understand the techniques and function of rhythm,
-- understand the relationship between form and content
-- utilize techniques and strategies for analyzing poetry,
-- utilize research (traditional and electronic sources) to better understand situational context and poet intent,
-- write a major paper which analyzes a selected poet’s style and integrates literary criticisms (ACP level),
-- write 3 papers in a least 2 of the following modes: description, exposition, narration, literary analysis, creative, persuasive, research.
All students will:
-- read and write in a variety of poetic forms and styles,
-- develop techniques and strategies for analyzing poetry,
-- develop techniques and personal style for writing poetry
-- present own poems to class,
-- present an analysis of a poem to class
-- receive instruction on the identification and function of various literary terms
-- be given opportunities to utilize research (traditional and electronic sources) to better understand situational context and poet intent
Assessment of student performance will include such activities as a poetry journal, oral presentations, unit tests, visualization projects, group tableau vivants, class discussion (circle, Socratic seminars), essays (rubric-based, test, research), student- and teacher-generated questioning, and analytical-based class work/homework assignments.
Given the opportunity, students may participate in a poetry reading or poetry slam. All reasonable attempts will be made to secure the visit of or workshop with a published poet.
Sound and Sense (Laurence Perrine, editor)
Poetry Handbook (Mary Oliver)
The Teachers and Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms (Ron Padgett)
An assortment of selected poetry (both student- and teacher-selected)
Poems of a student-selected poet
This course does not satisfy the literature requirement for senior electives.
This course may be taken at SCP level, or contracted up for ACP credit with the completion, outside of class time, of additional assignments.