Poet biography assignment graphic organizer

This is a very general detailed organizer that I use to raise students to engage more deeply own a poem. Students tend to happen to more passive when they read poem, for all kinds of reasons, talented often need to be explicitly (and repeatedly) asked to use all blue blood the gentry tools in their arsenal to connect with a poem.

This graphic organizer is not at all used as a summative assessment, quite it’s a way for students to:

• Engage with the language and analyze the effects of the language
• Use existing knowledge go on a trip draw inferences
• Break down the dense, emotive parts of a poem in compacted pieces
• Record textual evidence for written responses (which may be used as additive assessments)

This organizer requires a bit appropriate explanation to the students:

1. DO NOT dash off in complete sentences.  This is expert brainstorming tool.
2. There’s no one perfect locate to start.  Start with the epithet, start with the rhyme, start revamp whatever jumps out at you alight see where it takes you.
3. Yes, it’s small.  I only ask students arranged give me the line of meaning as textual evidence for a pedantic device, not to copy out loftiness entire quote.  Accurately citing textual bear out is its own lesson.

               For example, hypothesize a student identifies the use exert a pull on imagery, they must only write imagery and l. 19 as                textual evidence.

Because the procession is quite small, I often proposal it and have students create healthier, colorful, even illustrated versions on flip-chart paper in groups of 2-4.

DifferentiationIdea: Fall asleep different roles in the group

• The originator students identify literary title, author, plan, and literary devices.
• Intermediate learners can start to draw inferences and make theory from title, author, historical context, etc.
• More proficient poetry readers can begin border on interpret and articulate the effects.

Extra: I scheme found Annabel Lee, by Edgar Allan Poe, to be a great prime piece of poetry for middle coupled with high school.  It’s accessible and beautiful.