Playing with Poems: Rules, Tools, and Games

Standards

This unit of study meets the Pennsylvania Common Core standards expectations for analyzing seminal texts based upon reasoning, premises, purposes, and arguments, as well as for evaluating how an author's point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text. Furthermore, it develops and strengthens writing skills through giving students the opportunity to plan, revise, edit, rewrite, or try new approaches, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience. The material students will study is foundational, teaching elements of Art, History, English, Design, and even Media Studies.

CC.1.2.11–12.C

Analyze the interaction and development of a complex set of ideas, sequence of events, or specific individuals over the course of the text.

CC.1.2.11–12.H

Analyze seminal texts based upon reasoning, premises, purposes, and arguments.

CC.1.3.11–12.D

Evaluate how an author's point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.

CC.1.3.11–12.E

Evaluate the structure of texts including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the texts relate to each other and the whole.

CC.1.3.11–12.H

Demonstrate knowledge of foundational works of literature that reflect a variety of genres in the respective major periods of literature, including how two or more texts from the same period treat similar themes or topics.

CC.1.4.11–12.T

Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.

CC.1.4.11–12.X

Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.