Reading Lab #11: The Basic Elements of Poetry

Class Syllabus – Grades 6-8

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Objective: Students will be able to read a poem and identify its key elements.

Essential Questions:

1. What is a poem?
2. What is meter?
3. Why is meter important in poetry?

Enduring Understandings:

1. A poem is a type of literature. Poems convey a thought, describe a scene, or tell a story. This is accomplished through the concentration and lyrical arrangement of words.
2. Meter is the rhythmic structure within a poem. It is dictated by the number of syllables and the pattern in which these syllables are emphasized.
3. Meter helps the reader follow the rhythm intended by the poet, and in doing so, often strengthens the meaning of words and ideas in the poem.

Standards

Grade 6: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

Grade 7: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. Grade 8: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

Materials:

• Pen or pencil
• Piece of paper
• The poem “River River”