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Stage 1 Identify Desired Results Establish Goals: (G) A2 Literary Texts 8th grade: The student will describe the use of diction, figurative language, repetition, rhyme and tone to convey meaning in poetry.

What understandings are desired? Students will understand that: (U) • Poets use a variety of literary devices to give meaning to their poems • Poets' lives influence their poetry

What essential questions will be considered? Essential Questions: (Q)

• Why are poetic devices important to the understanding/appreciation of poetry? • How do authors utilize life experiences as a foundation for creative and expressive thinking?

What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?

Students will know: (K) That poets' lives affect their writing, poetic devices affect the mood of poems, and use of poetic devices helps give meaning to poetry. Students will be able to: (S) • Determine what life experiences influenced the author when writing certain poems. • Identify important general ideas or, even better, to explain how some specific ideas progress through the poem to arrive at a universal idea. • Identify poetic devices such as alliteration, assonance, metaphors, similes, personification, symbols, onomatopoeia, etc. • Identify forms of poetry such as haiku, sonnets, free verse, cinquain, etc. • Determine rhyme schemes. • Convey the mood of a poem. • Perform in front of their peers. • Use a variety of art and technology to complete each challenge. •

2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe