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Imagery In Poetry
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Arts Discipline:
Poetry/Imagery
Grade level--
4th Grade
Standards:
1.0 Artistic Perception-Develop Perceptual Skills and Visual Arts
Vocabulary
Approximate
time—3-4 Days over 30-40 minutes
Topic—Focus
on how imagery is used in writing and poetry
Rationale—Students
need to learn how to use imagery and recognize it in text and poetry.
Objectives—
- Students
recognize imagery meant to appeal to the senses. Students will make a
sensory image web as they read a given story.
- Students
will identify images in the text and match images to the senses to
which they appeal in a T-chart.
- Students
will create and write imagery phrases based on images from Google.
Interdisciplinary
Connections—
- Language
Arts Standards for 4th Grade- LS2.4-Recite brief poems…
- L.S.
1.8-use details, examples, anecdotes …
- L.R.A.-
3.5, Define figurative language and identify its use in literary works.
Strategy--Instructional
strategies will vary. Some may be combined. Here are the basic
strategies: Direct instruction (I do) Practice (We do—teacher
and students) Independent/Assessment (You do-students only).
Vocabulary—Imagery:
words and phrases that appeal to the five senses
Adjectives: words that describe nouns
Day 1
Introduction—
- Tell
students that writers use descriptive language or imagery to help
readers share the sensory experiences of characters in the story.
(Houghton Mifflin, Grade 4, Theme 2, TE 199).
- Teacher
may also review adjectives, metaphors, similes, if any of these lessons
have been taught.
Procedures—(20 minutes)
- Teacher
will go over sensory image web.
- Teacher
and students will locate and evaluate images in the last two paragraphs
on page 199 of “Tanya’s Reunion”.
- Students
and teacher will find imagery phrases that appeal to the senses of
sight, sound, touch, and smell.
- Students
may write this in their imagery web or it can all be done on the
promethean board.
Day 2—
- Teacher
will review lessons from previous day on imagery. Teacher can use the
imagery web to review.
- Teacher
will show students short video clips from promethean board. If teacher
does not have access to promethean board, then teacher can use magazine
clippings for images.
- When
teacher shows the video clip (imagery), students are writing phrases or
words that describe that clip.
- For example:
- Trees
rustling in the wind
- Gray,
cloudy sky
- Pine,
fresh scent of tree
- Teacher
will give students about 5-7 minutes to write.
- Teacher
and students will share their written work, about the video clip.
Extension #1-
- Students
can use their sensory image phrases to write similes, metaphors, or
adjective phrases. (This can be used as an assessment.)
- For example:
- Trees
rustling in the wind are like children whispering with each other -
(simile)
- Gray,
cloudy skies are frowning, sad grandmothers - (metaphor)
- The
fresh scent of a pine tree - (adjectives)
Extension #2 -
(GATE) Have students write a poem on a given topic using
sensory image phrases that are similes, metaphors, adjective phrases.
Closure— (5
minutes)
- “
We will continue to review different figures of speech in the next few
weeks.”
- Students
can share their imagery phrases with at least 2 other students or
teacher can use a random method to have students share aloud.
Suggestion- Collect the written similes, metaphors, adjective phrases
as an assessment of what you have been teaching for the past few weeks.
Assessment— Day
3—written metaphors, similes, or adjective phrases
Resources/Materials—Promethean
ActivBoard, student journals or folders, Houghton Mifflin - Theme 2
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