Lesson Plan Format

NAME: Ashlee Prudhomme

Lesson Topic: Describing Veterans through Poetry Grade level: 7th Grade
Total Time: 50 minutes
# Students: 18
Learning Goal:
(Content
Standard/Commo
n Core)

W.7.10. I can write for a range of time, tasks, purposes and audiences.

Target Goal or
Skill:
Essential
Question(s):
Topical
question(s):

Produce a grade level poem about a Veteran based on background

knowledge and previously done research
How can we use different language to describe a single topic?

Instructional
Objective(s):

Students will be able to:

L.7.3a I can choose language to express ideas in a precise and concise

manner.

How do we brainstorm for a topic? What are some ways we can describe
Veterans?

Write a poem based on previous research

Use descriptive language to describe a Veteran
Work alone on a single task
Collectively brainstorm on a topic
Independently use descriptive language for their writing
Assessment
(Criteria / Look
Fors/ Performance
Tasks)

Formative Assessment:

Disabilities/Divers
e Needs
Represented
Student
Accommodations
and/or
Modifications
Instructional
Procedures
(including specific
times)

Dyslexia

Summative Assessment:

Ask for comprehension and if needed have the questions read to him.
Can always work with partner to have help with questions.

Heres a quick refresher about Veterans Day to start our class.

Opening Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymCa1eB_qLA 3 minutes
Introduction:
(including
motivational hook
where applicable)

Learning
Activities:

Please take out your web quest from yesterday and any other sources of
information about Veterans that you may have.
Also take out a blank piece of paper because we are going to brainstorm
together to get our minds going about words for our poem. 10 minutes
Today we are going to use our previous research and knowledge to write a
poem describing Veterans.
Here is the outline for our poem. The first line is Veteran. The person or
subject we are describing. The second line is going to have four words
describing what a Veteran has done and is expected to do. These words
can be adjectives or words like protecting, etc

Closure:
Have students write biographical poems about a Veteran by completing
each of the following lines of the poem.
Line 1: Veteran
Line 2: Four words describing what a Veteran has done and is
expected to do (teachers can specify that the words be adjectives, gerunds,
etc.)
Line 3: Who feels . . .
Line 4: Who needs . . .
Line 5: Who fears . . .
Line 6: Who loves . . .
Line 7: Who thinks . . .
Line 8: Who believes . . .
Line 9: Synonym for "veteran"

20 Minutes
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendaractivities/veterans-celebrated-united-states-20339.html

If you finish your poem and still have more time, you can decorate the
paper
We will share our poems next week and they will be on display for parent
teacher conferences.
See how easy it can be to write a poem geared towards one subject? As we
keep practicing describing different subjects you can become better
writers with practice and it will become easier for us to avoid the jailhouse
words and boring writing.

If you did not get time to decorate the border of your paper,
Wrap up 5 minutes.

Academic
Language
Language
Demands (see
Handout)

5 Questions
(Blooms)

Adjective, free verse poem, synonym

Function: describing
Vocabulary: adjective, free verse poem, synonym
Syntax: Sentences
Discourse: Discussion, questions, writing
How could you describe Veterans?
How would you use different vocabulary to describe Veterans?
How can you state in your own words your thoughts about Veterans Day?
What could you do to celebrate Veterans Day?
What is Veterans Day?

Curriculum (APA)
e.g.
Investigations in
Number, Data,
and Space.
(2012). Pearson.

Materials

Notes

Worksheets, ipads, pencils, smart board