Lesson Plans for 9/21

What

Lesson Plans for 9/21

When

9/21/2023, 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM

Course/ Subject/Unit: Pre Ap Literature/Composition
Date of Instruction: 02/15/23

Standard(s):
ELAGSE9-10RL2: Determine a theme and/or central idea of text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text
ELAGSE9-10RL7: Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums (e.g., Auden’s poem “Musée de Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus), including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment.



Learning Target:
Learn about how poems change a story through different iterations in time.
Explore how a story transforms into a poem and how that poem can travel and change in folk tradition.
Success Criteria:
I will Take notes as different versions of a story are presented.
I will Annotate lyrics and share my observations.
I will compare and contrast poetic retellings of a story through different eras and forms.



Activities & Assignments
PP: Discovering voice

Teacher will begin with a fireside story time of an old mysterious haunting. Students will take notes on the story and discuss why it has been so persistent in american folklore.

The teacher will then introduce the poetic concept of a ballad. The class will follow as the form is explored and how it usually presents in poetry.

The instructor will then introduce several music videos of the classic folk ballad “In the Pines.” Students will compare and contrast the ballad with the story told by the instructor. They will also compare the two song versions against each other. What is revealed about the poem’s power as it has transformed?

The class will conclude with students attempting to write their own ballads for the poetry project.