Eating+Poetry+-+PS

How to teach //Eating Poetry// using objectives:

SWBAT: __**Cognitive**__ Students will be able to comprehend the poem 1.1 Interpret this poem //Eating Poetry// 1.2 Identify literary elements 1.3 Translate the poem into their own words 1.4 Apply prior knowledge about poems to this poem 1.5 Classify the theme of the poem

__**Affective**__ Students will be able to participate in classroom activities 2.1 Compose in class poetry writing 2.2 Compse outside poetry writing 2.3 Discuss own interpretation of poem 2.4 Listen to other students interpretations about poem 2.5 Relate poem to other poems learned from lesson

__**Performance**__ Compose original writing 3.1 Write their own poem 3.2 Demonstrate understanding of poem by creating own poem 3.3 Perform poem to the class 3.4 Originate original ideas 3.5 Construct literary elements in original poem

1. Have students read the poem and then compare it to a photo that may be similar and different. 2. Have students anaylze each part of the stanza and possibly act them out.
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__3 Questions__
1. Paraphrase the poem into your own words. (CREATE) 2. What is the theme of eating poetry? (ANALYZE) 3. What inference can you make the author's feelings about poety? (EVALUATE) 4. If you could rename the poem, what would it be? (EVALUATE/CREATE) 5. What does the poem say about the author? (EVALUATE)