EDUC 2220 Lesson Plan Template.docx

The Poetry in Music and How it Relates

Teage MartinHigh School English / Grade 11

Common Core Standards:

Text Types and Purposes

W.11-12.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.

Production and Distribution of Writing

W.11-12.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

W.11-12.5: Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.

Range of Writing

W.11-12.10: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.

Lesson Summary:

This lesson plan is constructed to be a fun way to familiarize students with a form of poetry as well as gain experience in writing a comparative paper. This lesson also helps to aid in student creativity, and to give them a more insightful look into others compositions while getting to know each other a little better. Papers will be 2-3 pages, and will compare their chosen songs lyrics to a specific experience, person, or place. After a peer review session, in which they will swap papers and look for grammatical errors, students will write a final draft. This last revision will be presented, or read aloud to the entirety of the class. They will also be responsible for playing their chosen song to the class with lyrics visible to all. The final day of this assignment will involve a game in which students will log onto computers and match songs to the presenters.

Estimated Duration:

Five class periods of varying times for a total of 140 minutes.

Commentary:

To transition from older poets such as Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe I will begin a discussion about music and explain its place with modern poetry. I will then play a song using the computer and smartboard in the classroom with lyrics for students to view. After the song has ended I will read the students my example paper. To end this first class period I will assign students to find a song that relates to a person, experience, or place due the next class period. I envision students enjoying this assignment, as music has become very influential. With this being something they have chosen they will be more willing to open up and talk about what the lyrics mean to them. This hook leads to the bigger assignment, which is a 2-3 page paper. The challenging aspect of this lesson plan will be pulling the shy students out of their comfort zones when they are required to stand up to present their paper and song in front of the class.

Instructional Procedures:

Day 1:

This lesson plan is scheduled to start on a Thursday with the last 20 minutes of class. In this allotted time I will transition the class from older age poetry to more modern day poetry. To introduce this lesson I will begin the 20 minutes by showing them a Youtube video of a song with lyrics. After the song has finished I will read them an example paper of what they will have completed at the end of this lesson plan. From there we will hold a discussion to see if students hold similar experiences with the music they listen to. I will proceed to give the class an outline for this assignment, and answer any questions students may have after reading the outline. Finally, I will assign the students their first bit of homework for this assignment. This will be finding a song that has lyrics reminding them of a person, place, or experience, and being able to explain why the lyrics correlate with that person, place, or experience citing specific lines in the song.

Day 2:

Friday will end with the class using the last 20 minutes to start writing their papers. Students will be allowed to either get on the computers in the classroom, or write in their notebooks. Also at this time, any questions that students came across since their last class will be answered. I will also express to the class that their rough draft is due Monday.Day 3:

The last 30 minutes of class on Monday will consist of peer review. Students will break down into smaller groups (4-6 people), and they will read each others drafts. Students will also give constructive criticism to the writer to help better the paper. Punctuation and spelling will be the main focus of the peer review though. I will be supervising the groups and answering any questions that might arise. I will also announce to the class that their final drafts are due the following class, and that they will be presenting to the class as well.

Day 4:

Tuesday I will use the entire class period, approximately 50 minutes, for student presentations. I will explain to the class that those that arent presenting will need to take notes regarding the presenter and their chosen song. Students will then proceed to the front of the class, in alphabetical order, to present and play their song with lyrics on the smartboard. After students have finished presenting they will hand in their final drafts for grading. This is how we will end our Tuesday.

Day 5:

Wednesday will be the final day of this lesson plan. It will last 20 minutes. Students will log onto class computers and play a game / quiz I have created for them. This game will test how attentive they were during other students presentations. This test will match randomly selected students names to their songs. After this activity is completed I will assign an after actions review to see what the students enjoyed about the assignment and what could be improved for future classes. This will be done as homework on an online document.

Pre-Assessment:

During the transition into this lesson plan I will begin a discussion regarding music, and how it can relate to us in our everyday lives. I think the majority of students will not need to go into a detailed discussion regarding this particular subject because music plays a highly influential role in many teenagers lives. After I present them the example paper and song, we will again hold a discussion to see who can relate to music in a similar way. During these discussions I will be able to gage how well students can find their own messages in poetry.

Scoring Guidelines:

During the pre-assessment portion of this plan I will use my judgement to see if the students are able to comprehend the relevance between music and poetry.

Post-Assessment:

Though there is a quiz at the end of this lesson plan, the after actions review held on day 5 will provide more information for the post-assessment. In this review students will be able to voice what they enjoyed about the assignment, what they learned, what they wouldve liked to see done differently, and what could be added. This review will be done online as homework.

Scoring Guidelines:

The post-assessment activity will be a pass / fail grade. If students participate in the after actions review they will receive a pass, if they fail to post to the online document they will fail.

Day 4 I will grade students on their presentations and their papers. The presentation portion of this assignment will be worth 50 points. I will be looking for confidence while presenting (clear and resounding voice while speaking to the class), a presentation time of 2-5 minutes, and a fluid paper. The paper will be worth 25 points. It will be graded on punctuation, grammar, sentence structure, and length.

Day 5 I will grade students on their game performance. It will be worth 10 points, and this will be decided by how they are able to match songs with their respective presenters.

The total number of points possible for this lesson plan is 85.

Differentiated Instructional Support

Students that have a firm grasp of a poems meaning and how it can relates on a personal level will help students that are struggling. They will also be given the option to write additional papers that will add to the total point value of the assignment.

Students that are struggling with the assignment will have access to additional example papers. These students will also be able to speak with me during the minutes provided in class to work on this assignment. If they still would like additional help, I would stay after school to provide any additional help that the student needed.

Extension

The following link provides the common core standards that relate to this particular lesson plan. Students could also browse around this website to discover what common core standards there are for other classes as well. This website could help students understand why educators teach what they do.

http://www.ohiorc.org/standards/commoncore/ela/standard.aspx?id=5012

Homework Options and Home Connections

The first homework assignment included in this lesson plan will be to find a song that reminds the student of a person, place, or personal experience.

The students rough draft of their 2-3 page paper relating to their chosen song will be assigned as homework on day 2. Additionally, their final draft will also be worked on outside of class.

Interdisciplinary Connections

This lesson could be integrated into the Music field as well. They will be studying the lyrics of the song they chose, and using those lyrics to relate something interpersonal. Current Events would be another class that this lesson plan applies to. The music that students choose will be modern, and this assignment could be modified to have students use songs that have come out within a certain time frame.

Materials and Resources:

For teachers

Computer, Smartboard, Projector, Internet access

For students

Computers, Smartboard, Projector, Internet access

Key Vocabulary

Works Cited, Comparative Essay

Additional Notes

The inspiration for this lesson plan came from a high school assignment I had. I attempted to locate papers written on the internet relating to this topic so that I could attach them as examples, but I was unsuccessful in my searches.