How Poems Are Built - Grade 6
In this study, students will experience three cycles of interconnected work with poems. Each cycle focuses on one or two poems by the following poets: Ko Un, Rita Dove, and William Carlos Williams. The work with each of the poems is designed to ensure a close reading of the text. The work begins with basic comprehension-level work and culminates with text-based interpretive tasks in which students participate in text-based discussions and write text-based arguments. The unit concludes with a retrospective task in which students consider what they have learned about poems as things people make or build.
Table of Contents
Text Audio
Writing Tasks
Title: S-1: Interpreting Ko Un: “Exhausted”
Session 1
Title: S-2: Interpreting Ko Un: “House left empty”
Session 2
Title: S-6: How “Sunday Night at Grandfather’s” Is Built
Session 6
Title: S-7: Writing About “Sunday Night at Grandfather’s”
Session 7
Title: S-10: How “View of a Lake” Is Built
Session 10
Charts for Discussion
Title: S-1: Understanding Ko Un: What We Did
Session 1
Title: S-4: How Our Poems Are Like Ko Un’s
Session 4
Forms and Graphic Organizers
Title: S-3: Criteria for a Good Discussion
Session 3