Grade 9 -- Unit 3: PoetryLPSS -- 2009-20101
HoltElements of Literature / Black Line Masters / Holt Elements of Language / Reader’s Handbook / Other Resources1 Reading (SSR)
For Independent Practice, 70, 153, 231, 319,
455, 555, 629, 705, 833, 1039
Index listings on 1238. / Preparing to Read, 536, 570, 606, 642, 676, 766,802, 866 / See LPSS ELA Blackboard for Reading Log, Status of the Class, AR Guidelines, Summer Reading Guidelines. Other things will be added on an on-going basis.
Double Entry Journal & Learning Logs,
Dialectic Journal,
2 Vocabulary Study
Vocabulary Development
Vocabulary Development, 1149-1150, 1156-
1157, 1030, 1038, 43, 54, 125, 293, 317,
445, 454, 597
Using a Thesaurus to Find Synonyms, 304
Synonyms, 815
Context Clues, 196, 368, 1124
Etymology, 54 / Vocabulary Mini-Lesson, 545, 578, 614, 650, 684,723, 774, 810, 838, 875
Vocabulary Workshop / Using Dictionary, T41
Using Thesaurus, T42
“Diving into Dictionaries
and Thesauruses, 677-683
3 Writing Prompts
Prompts should be derived from the readings for this unit.
Quickwrites, 1232
Power Notes, Collection 7 / Writing, 921
Six Traits of Writing
Transparencies Preview: Reading,
Writing, Revising / Daily Writing Prompts,
writing-prompts/index.htm
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4 Grammar
Daily Language Activities, Proofreading
Activities, 1-25, and Sentence
Combining, 77-91
Virtual File Cabinet—practice, remediation,
assessment, review, enrichment pages
Language Handbook Worksheets
Fragments, 1176, 1180
Run-ons, 725, 1180-1181
Syntax, 1201
Capitalization, 1085, 1185, 1186, 1188
Punctuation, 1191
Spelling conventions, 1197 / Tranparencies Preview:
Proofreading Warm-Ups
5 Speaking My Language
Visual Connections, Segment 6
Holt Reader, Collection 7
Power Notes, Collection 7, Elements 1 ppt:
Imagery
Visual Connections, Poetry in
Performance, Segment 6;
also p. 40
Imagery, 474
Holt Reading Solutions, 462-467
Figures of Speech, 504
Vocabulary Development-Figures of Speech,
1028-1029
Analyzing a Poem, 556-560
Summarizing, 1103-1104
Holt Reading Solutions, 432-437
Audio Library, disc 12
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” 533
“The Road Not Taken,” 376
“Starfish,” 476
“Blessing,” 480
“Tiburon,” 506
“Base Stealer,” 551
“The American Hero,” 551
“Hope,” 511
“Fog” & “Fire and Ice,” 516-517
“Boy at the Window,” 526 / Poetic Devices,
8
Role Cards,
9
Reciprocal Teaching Task Sheet,
10 / Sound Elements in Poetry, 691
Imagery/Metaphor, 542, 585, 689, 706, 876
A Writer’s Model, 697
Think as a Writer: Writing, Ch. 22 / Elements of Poetry, 423-
443
Reading Poetry, 386-443 / “Oranges”
“Blackberry Picking”
HoltElements of Literature / Black Line Masters / Holt Elements of Language / Reader’s Handbook / Other Resources
6 Making Inferences About a
Poet’s Life
Visual Connections, Segment 8
Inference, 1152
Holt Reading Solutions, 426-431
“The Gift,” 544 / Comparing Facts to Inferences, 676, 805-807, 867-868
Making Inferences, 680-681
Reading Workshop Support, Ch. 25 / Making Inferences, 46 / Maya Angelou,
“Still I Rise,”
Making an Inference (Beers),
Angelou’s Bio,
“Where I’m From,”
7 Effect of Sensory Imagery on
Tone & Emotion
Power Notes, Collection 7, Elements 1 ppt:
Imagery, etc.
Visual Connections, Segments 6 & 7
“Legal Alien,” 548
“Women,” 523
Internment,” 512 / Viewing Chart,
11 / Tone, 689 / Imagery and Tone, 405
Imagery, 430
Tone, 443 / Ezra Pound, In a Station…
Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum
8 Figuratively Speaking
Power Notes, Collection 7, Elements 2ppt:
Metaphor, Simile
Holt Multicultural Reader, Figures of Speech,
166-170, 171-174
“Folding Won Tons In,” 508
“Tiburon,” 506
“Fog” & “Fire and Ice,” 516
“Boy at the Window,” 526
Literary Devices, 1093P / Figurative Language Rubric
12 / Figurative Language, 689, 706
Metaphor, 542
Simile, 536, 542, 689, 876
Alliteration, 691
Personification, 542, 876
Onomatopoeia, 691
Think as a Writer: Writing, Ch.22 / Figurative Language, 427
Symbols in poetry, 403-
442 / “Incident in a Rose Garden”
“The Courage…Mother Had,”
“My Papa’s Waltz,”
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9 Free Verse vs. Structured Verse
Power Notes, Collection 7, Elements 3 ppt:
free verse, rhymed verse
Audio Library, disc 12
Free verse, 1138, 531-32
“The Gift,” 544-545 / Verse, 689 / Free Verse, 395, 428 / “Hanging Fire,”
“The Ball Poem,”
Lear, also search Poem, Glossary, Limerick (there are 7 limericks)
“A Lame Beggar”
(Also, check Glossary, Epigram at the Poetry Foundation site. There are a number of epigram poems in the archive.)
10 Paragraph Analysis of a Symbol
Power Notes, Collection 6, Elements ppt:
Symbolism and Collection 7, Workshop
ppt: Analyze a Poem
Presenting a Poem, 564
“The Road Not Taken,” 376 / Oral Presentations, 600, 669-670, 798, 886
Writing a letter, 293, 333, 350
Think as a Writer: Grammar, Ch. 8 / Symbols, 403-442 / “One Perfect Rose,”
11 The Sonnet
Sonnet, 1144
“Once By the Pacific,” 498
“Romeo and Juliet,” 897
Prologue to Act I, 901
Prologue to Act II, 932
Lines 93-106 form a sonnet / Locating Facts, 509, 802, 805-807, 867
Bibliography Sources, 738
Reading Wrokshop Support, Ch. 28 / Sonnet, 389 / Billy Collins,
Shakespearean Sonnets,
romeo/Sonnet.html
Lesson Plan
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12 Researching to Connect the Poet’s World to Life / Connecting Poet’s Life to Historical Context,
Citations,
and