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LESSON PLAN

//PLANNING// [3] Demonstrate an understanding of the nature of language. [3c] Understand that language captures and records human aspirations and imagination. [3f] Understand that language conveys the depth of human experience, evoking both emotion and reason. **//PERFORMING//**
 * Date:** 1 December 2009 **Class and Grade Level:** English 9
 * Title/Subject of Lesson:** Interpreting Poetry
 * Objective(s):** Students will find a poem they like from one of the following authors: Robert Frost or Shakespeare. Students will interpret the poem in animation to better understand that poetry can be interpreted in many ways depending on our own personal background and opinions. This will be done using the free animation website goanimate.com.
 * State Core Curriculum Standards:**
 * Concepts to Be Taught:** reading for holistic comprehension, looking for structural details and symbolism, understanding the emotions mentioned or alluded to in writing, step by step interpretation.
 * Materials Needed:** class set of English Anthology, access to computer lab
 * Strategies to Be Used:** reading aloud, class discussion, animation on computers
 * Announcements:** //none//

A) Getting Started: [anticipatory set] Journal Prompt: remind students of the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. Have students write for ten minutes on a time when they had to decide between two options, how they made that decision, and the effects. B) Directing the Learning: [learning activities] · Have students break into the pre-assigned partners. · Together students have five minutes to choose a poem. · We will then head down to the computer lab where we will learn how to use the animation studio. (Students will already be signed up ahead of time. One account per pair.) · Explain briefly the most significant points to the animation studio. It is fairly simple once the basics are understood. Explain adding scenes, adding characters, adding voice bubbles, adding animation, adding “FX” and other sounds. · Hand out rubric. Minimum of 20 slides, nothing inappropriate, must apply to the students’ interpretations of poems. Must be an understandable interpretation of the poem, etc. · Students will then have the rest of the period to begin working on the animation. · Monitor students work to make sure they are on task, if they need help, to offer assistance, etc. C) Bringing the Lesson to a Conclusion: · Bring the class back together. Have students save projects and log out of computers. · State that we will have more time to work on the project next class period (about 30 minutes more at the end of class). · Two class periods from now we will have the Grade 11 “Emmys” where we will show our projects to the class. Read the poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” by ee cummings. Attempt to interpret. Think about emotions and the poem as a whole before analyzing the words.
 * Continuation from Previous Lesson:** Yesterday we discussed how poetry might be interpreted in many different ways depending on your own past experiences. We also read a few poems by Robert Frost and a few sonnets by Shakespeare.
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