The Uses of Poetry in the Classroom

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 05.01.01

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Unit Goals
  3. Curriculum Unit Overview and Strategies
  4. Correlation to Virginia Standards
  5. Lesson Plans
  6. October – December-Thematic Unit II:Who Am I? Discovering who I am as an individual with emotions.
  7. January – March: Thematic Unit III: Who Am I? My Ability to Achieve
  8. Materials
  9. Annotated Bibliography
  10. Works Cited
  11. Notes

Discovering Self through Poetry

Carolyn Diane Clark

Published September 2005

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Materials

Thematic Unit I

Activity One: "I Am" poem

"I Am" poem-enough for each student

Folders-for students to begin compiling unit portfolio

Activity Two: "Lineage" by Margaret Walker:

Highlighters-enough for each student

Grammar book/information sheet introducing 'Adjectives'

Thematic Unit II

Individuality: "Thumbprint by Eve Merrimam

3 x 5 index cards-enough for each student

Ink pads-for each group of two to four students

Copies of the poem, "Thumbprint by Eve Merriam for each student

Copies of thumb patterns from the website www.wvonline.com – 1 set per group.

Emotions: "Debt" by Paul L. Dunbar

Copies of the following poems for each student: "Debt" by Paul L. Dunbar, "If" by Rudyard Kipling, "Invictus" by William E. Henley, "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, and "A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes.

Thematic Unit III:

Copies of the poems: "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, "If" by Rudyard Kipling, "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes, "The Dream Keeper" by Langston Hughes, and "A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes.

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