Lesson Overview

This lesson is to expose students to "Energy Wheel" poem format and "Haiku/Senryu" poem format. This is lesson 6 of 9 lessons which 8 are VTEL

Standards Based Goal

Students will be introduced to several different poetry formats and will apply what they learn to create their own poetry portfolio.

Student Objectives

1. Students will adapt at least three different nouns, adjectives, and verbs into an "Energy Wheel".

2. Students will create a Haiku or Senryu using 17 syllables.

Prerequisite Skills

Room monitor will need to collect and snail mail today's assignment. There will need to be an adult room supervisor for students and someone who knows how to run the VTEL equipment. All involved need to understand VTEL classroom protocol.

Time Sequence

Sequence of Activities

Indicators of Engaged Learning

Notes

Technical Considerations

Resources

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7 minutes

Time to share "Diamonte" poems from last lesson. I'll share mine and then have a couple volunteers.

Brainstorm activity: Monitor thinks of a color and the rest of the lab says what it makes them think of and feel. (Remember to be school appropriate for responses.) Example: red=anger, blood, Valentine's day, love, roses, rising temperature

share some of your lab's cool responses

introduce "Energy Wheel" format

practice "Energy Wheel" poem individually

share your "Energy Wheel" with two people in your lab

Take time to illustrate your poem and then turn into your room monitor and submit a copy to me. Click on the purple paw.

Go over a Haiku or Senryu and let students create as many as they can with a partner.

Have a couple share theirs with the two sites. Turn Haiku or Senryu into room monitor. Rap up what we have been learning about today and in the last few days.

monitor station

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monitor station

document camera

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monitor station

Special Considerations

Handouts
Computer for writing
Large text available
Session on tape

Assessment

Students turned in two formats of poems created today. The "Energy Wheel" is illustrated and done individually. The Haiku or Senryu poems are done with a partner. The "Energy Wheel" needs at least three different nouns, adjectives, and verbs. The Haiku needs 17 syllables in all.