Houston Baptist University

Department of Education
Lesson Plan Format
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Subject: Language Arts/Reading and Drama Grade Level: 3rd

Unit: Multiple Genres/ Foundations Topic: Poetry

Goal(s): Students will be able to recognize the elements of poetry.

Objective(s) TLW act out a stanza so the class can interpret the poem.

TEKS:
Language Arts
(9) Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using
multiple texts--genres. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics,
structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional,
contemporary, classical, and diverse texts. The student is expected to:
(B) explain rhyme scheme, sound devices, and structural elements such as
stanzas in a variety of poems;
Theater
(1) Foundations: inquiry and understanding. The student develops concepts about
self, human relationships, and the environment using elements of drama and
conventions of theatre. The student is expected to
(C) respond to sounds, music, images, language, and literature using
movement; and

Materials/Resources/Technology needs:
 various poems of your choice

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Instructional Procedures

Teaching/ Learning Procedures:

1. Divide the class into different groups, and give each group a different poem. This
activity might be suitable as a starter acitivity before actually beginning a unit on
poetry.
2. Each group will then read their selections, and try to pull meaning from the poem.
After the groups have their ideas together, they will each pick one stanza from
their given poem, and develop a skit to be presented to the entire class. They must
try to convey their ideas about the poem as they act out their skit.
3. Presentation of skits. Each group will include the following:
o A choral reading of the poem
o A short discussion about the poem - What is the poem about? Did your
group enjoy the poem? Why, why not? What is the author trying to tell
 his/her audience? Hidden message? Is there anything that you did not
understand?

Closure: Students will write/create a poem that requires movement.