English 9 · Week 28 · Poetry, Drama, and Resilience
Poetry of Feeling
Students analyze the cumulative impact of word choices on a poem's meaning and tone.
- Students will
- Students analyze the cumulative impact of word choices on a poem's meaning and tone.
- SEL skill
- Name the emotions a poem stirs in you
- What it looks like
- Students name the emotions a poem stirs in them and notice how language creates feeling.
- Content focus
- Word choice and tone in poetry
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness means recognizing your own emotions, thoughts, values, and strengths and seeing how they influence what you do. More self-awareness activities
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Standards
- RL.9-10.4: Reading: Literature, Grades 9 to 10, Standard 4
- CA ELD standards: ELD.PI.9-10.8 Analyzing language choices; ELD.PI.9-10.12 Selecting language resources
- CA ELA/ELD Framework theme: Meaning Making
- Works with: Poetry
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More self-awareness activities for English 9
- Who Tells My Story? Self-awarenessStudents choose a meaningful moment and draft the opening of a personal narrative with a clear point of view.
- What Lies Under the Surface Self-awarenessStudents cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support inferences about characters' emotions.
- Slowing Down a Moment Self-awarenessStudents use pacing and precise sensory details to slow down the most important moment of a narrative.
- Words with Weight Self-awarenessStudents analyze nuances in word meanings, including connotation, and use context clues to determine meaning.
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