Lander University Lesson Plan Teacher Candidate: Ginna Weatherford Lesson # 3 Subject\/Grade: Writing/2nd Date and Time of Lesson:

3/20/2014 9:00 Learning Objective: The student will be able to write a poem by creating a story using what they see, what they love, and something they worry about. Alignment with Standards: Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

Developmental Appropriateness or Cross-curricular connections: Creating a poem using feeling and expression is appropriate for second grade students because it is a part of the common core standards. It allows them to use their imagination and create a story using a poem. Assessment(s) of the Objectives: Lesson Objectives: Assessments of Objectives: The student will be able to write a poem by creating a story using what they see, what they love, and something they worry about. Pre-Assessment: As students are turning to talk on the carpet listen for if a child is struggling to grasp the topic or struggling to be imaginative. During Assessment: Monitor students as they organize their thoughts in the house of poetry. Stop any students and redirect if needed. This is an informal assessment through teacher observation. After Assessment: The teacher will review the poems and assess how well the students did on creating a poem with feeling and looking through poet eyes.

Use of Formative Assessment At the end of the poetry unit the students will be able to pick out their favorite poem and share in the poetry writing celebration. At this point the teacher will be able to assess how well the students did through the poetry unit.

Accommodations: Accommodate for weather conditions. If it is too cold or rainy you could do one of two things.

1. Have a box of items and have students blindy pick one object to use poet eyes on. 2. Have students quickly scan the room for an item of their choice. You may also need to accommodate for early finishers by allowing them to pick another object from the room (since you are already inside they will not be allowed back outside unless they can picture the item in their head). They can gather their thoughts on the house of poetry and make a new poem.

Materials: 1. 2 poems (The Pencil Sharpener & The Ceiling) 2. Copy of the House of Poetry per child 3. 2 poster size copies of the House of Poetry 4. Poetry paper for every child plus a few extra for early finishers 5. Pencil 6. Clipboards Procedures:
Teaching Point: You saw a lot of things on your way to school like buses, kids, and trees. I even saw a plane in the morning sky. You saw these things with your regular eyes. But I have a secret to share. Poets dont see things with regular eyes they see the world differently. In our unit, you are going to have to put on poet glasses to see with poet eyes. This is important because much of a poets work comes before your pencil even touches paper!!Today I want to teach you that poets see with poet eyes. Poets look at things with their hearts and minds. They sometimes look at things from different angles or think about what things resemble, looks like. This helps poets write about the world in different unusual ways. 1. For starters, use your regular eyes to take a quick look at our pencil sharpener. Youll see why in a minute. Take a look and get ready to share what you see (Turn and Talk). 2. What I see is a box. A machine that makes my pencil sharp. We have just looked at our pencil sharpener with regular eyes. Now lets put on our glasses and see how we would view our pencil sharpener with poet eyes. Pay attention to how I saw the world in a fresh new way. (Think aloud the poets vision) Vision: The pencil sharpener is a bee hive and there are hundreds of bees inside making my pencil sharp. Now lets put my thoughts into my house of poetry. 3. House of Poetry See: a bee hive with bees inside Worry: what if there arent any bees to make my pencil sharp. Love: in the end, my pencil comes out sharp, just like I wanted. Poets, do you see how we gathered our thoughts after using our poet glasses to create an exciting new way to view our ordinary pencil sharpener. Now watch as I think deeper and create a poem based on the information from my poetry house.

Poem: I think there are a hundred bees inside the pencil sharpener. but what if there are not? soon, they buzz and buzz and buzz until my point is sharp! Poets, did you notice how I used my regular eyes to look at our pencil sharpener and then I used poet eyes and saw it as a bee hive? I also gathered my thoughts by using a house of poetry to organize what I wanted to say in my poem. Letting the kids try: 1. Look at the ceiling with your regular eyes.What do you see? (turn & tell your partner) 2. Call the class back as whole group. 3. Now, look at the ceiling with your poet eyes! What changed? **Comment on what you say some of the children were saying. 4. Now lets think aloud about our house of poetry & write some of the ideas down! 5. As the teacher facilitate students into thinking about the categories on the house of poetry. Write many ideas down that the children have discussed. 6. Now..remember next we get to write our poem! I want you to give me a thumbs up on your knee whenever you have an idea about how our poem could go using the words we wrote on our house of poetry! 7. Allow students then to turn and tell their partner what they decided of how their poem could go. 8. Reveal the poem that you wrote The Ceiling The ceiling is the sky for the classroom It protects me from the storm 9. Guys do you see how easy it is to write a poem by first organizing our thoughts with the house of poetry and then creating a poem! Today, you are going to get to do the same thing! You are going to get to walk outside and choose an object using your regular eyes.**REMIND STUDENTS RULES OUTSIDE** You are going to put on your poet eyes to see what the object turns into. Then, you are going to fill in the information into your house of poetry and create an original poem about your object just like I did.

First you will look outside at an object with your regular eyes. Quickly pick an object. Then you will look at that same object with poet eyes and see what it can turn into! After think about a story or some ideas for the object by writing it in your house of poetry. When we come inside then you will get to write your poem. Lets Go!

Line up the students

Activity Analysis: 1. Steps to Making a Poem: 1st done by the teacher as a model. This allows the students to see what is expected of them. a. Look through your regular eyes b. Look with poet eyes c. Find the object and what does it turn into? d. Gather thoughts on the House of Poetry e. Write a poem 2. Turn and tell your partner: This allows for partner reinforcement and an informal assessment of how well the students did with understanding the above activity through teacher observation. a. Look through your regular eyes b. Look with poet eyes c. Find the object and what does it turn into? d. Gather thoughts on the House of Poetry e. Write a poem 3. Its the students turn to follow the above format as an individual.

References: Calkins, Lucy. Poetry: Big Thoughts in Small Packages. Heinemann. 2013.