Poetry, Prose, and

Drama
How do I distinguish among
poetry, prose, and drama?
Key Learning: Texts are structured in a way to help the reader
comprehend the information more easily.
701.8.3, 701.8.4, 701.6.3, 701.6.4
Unit Essential Question: How does analyzing text structure help you
better understand the information you are reading?
Concept:
Concept:
Nonfiction Text
Features
Concept:
Types of Prose
Concept:
Biography and
Autobiography
Lesson Essential
Questions:

How do I
distinguish
among
poetry,
prose, and
drama?
701.8.3, 701.8.4
Lesson Essential
Questions:

How do the
features of
nonfiction texts
aid in
comprehension?

701.6.3, 701.6.4
Lesson Essential Questions:

What are the
distinguishing
characteristics of
the different
types of prose?

701.8.3, 701.8.4

Lesson Essential Questions:
How do you
explain the
characteristics
of biography
and
autobiography?

701.8.3


Poetry, Prose
and Drama
Unit Vocabulary
Poetry
Prose
Drama
Text features
(headings, key words,
captions, footnotes,
maps, charts, graphs,
timelines, tables,
diagrams)
Fiction
Nonfiction
Genre
Biography
Autobiography
Table of Contents for: Text Structure
Title of Paper Date
of
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Your
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Worth
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Poetry, Prose, and Drama PN 20
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Poetry, Prose, and Drama
Summarizer NBP
20
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Reading Poetry, Prose, and
Drama Worksheet
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Activator
What Is It?
See if you can tell what each title
is poetry, prose, or drama
Record your answers on your
notesheet.
Activator
1. The Christmas Carol by Charles
Dickens.
2. After a Hundred Years by
Emily Dickenson
3. Lemony Snicket: The
Unauthorized Autobiography
by Lemony Snicket
Poetrys Purpose
Poetry is a form of writing that
is meant to
1. entertain
2. express
Text Features of Poetry
There are several features of
poetry that make it unique
from other forms of writing.
These are:

Text Features of Poetry
1. Varied in length
2. Written in lines and stanzas
3. Uses sound devices (rhyme,
alliteration, onomatopoeia,
etc)
4. Takes poetic license with space,
punctuation, grammar, etc
Text Features of Poetry
5. Uses word pictures to build
sensory impressions and create
images
6. Plays with the sounds of words
and the rhymes of phrases
7. Is usually intended to be read
aloud
Forms of Poetry
Poetry can take several
forms. These are:
Forms of Poetry
1. Shape Poems
2. Acrostic Poems
3. Ballads
4. Lyrical Poems
5. Haikus
6. Narrative Poems
7. Free Verse
8. Blank Verse
Lets Review #1
Tell me three things that
you have learned about
poetry (write them down).
Proses Purpose
Prose is a form of writing that
is meant to:
1. inform
2. entertain
3. express
4. persuade
Text Features of Prose
There are several features of
prose that make it unique from
other forms of writing. These
are:

Text Features of Prose
1. Written using paragraphs
2. May contain dialogue
3. Can be either fiction or
nonfiction
4. Can have headings and/or
subheadings
5. Can be accompanied by
graphics (charts, photos)
Forms of Prose
Prose can take several
forms. These are:
Forms of Prose
1. Biography
2. Autobiography
3. Essay
4. Novel
5. Short Story
6. Novella
7. Article
8. Fable / Folktale
9. Folktale

Lets Review #2
Tell me three things that
you have learned about
prose (write them down).
Dramas Purpose
Drama is a form of writing
that is meant to:
1. express
2. entertain
Text Features of Drama
There are several features of
drama that make it unique
from other forms of writing.
These are:

Text Features of Drama
1. Can have staging directions
2. Can have a list of characters
3. Written to be performed
4. Written in the form of a script
(dialogue)
5. Can include directions for
costuming and physically setting
a stage
Forms of Drama
Drama can take several
forms. These are:
Forms of Drama
1. Play
2. Skit
3. Opera
4. Musical
5. Monologue
Lets Review #3
Tell me three things that
you have learned about
drama (write them down).
Summarizer, Part 1
Look back at our activator.
Now that you are more familiar
with poetry, prose, and drama, go
back and double-check if your first
answers are correct.
If they arent, fix them with your
GRADING pen.
Summarizer, Part 2
Take out a blank sheet of notebook
paper.
Title it Poetry, Prose, and Drama
Summarizer and head it properly.
Follow the directions on the next
slide.
Summarizer, Part 2
We are doing a 3-2-1
3. Write three types of text (there
are only three)
2. Write two features of each type
(label each type so I know what it is)
1. Write one form of each type
(label each type so I know what it is)
Turn it into the blue bin when you
are done.