Limerick
EQ:
What is poetry?
What are some types of poems?
What are the elements of a limerick?
What figurative language do you hear in poems?
What poetry elements can you identify in a poem?
WGI:
read poems by shel silverstein and identify figurative language
http://www.shelsilverstein.com/indexSite.html
Use:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/spwpjxtzpfocn3s/ShelPoetryMonth2013.pdf
View a Limerick poem
http://www.kathimitchell.com/poemtypes.html
http://www.poetry4kids.com/blog/lessons/how-to-write-a-limerick/
WGI:
Create and write a Limerick poem together.
Add to anchor chart listing/defining the types of poetry
SGI:
Writing conferences with individual students.
IP:
Students will create a poem of their own and start poem journal for the tea for Mother's Day. Publish poems to the class wiki.
http://welchsclass.pbworks.com
Close:
Share poems
Leave a positive comment on student wiki poem page.