Lesson Class #: Where I’m From Poetry Course English 30-2

Title/Focus Poetry
Karley

PROGRAM OF STUDY OUTCOMES

• 2.1.1 (d), 1.1.2(b), 4.1.3(a)

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. See the connections between personal writing and poetry

2. Understand how we can portray our personal experiences/memories through poetry

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

• Poetry Bracket Booklet

PROCEDURE

Introduction Time

• We will be beginning a short unit on poetry. In this unit we will be looking at different 5 min
poems that include different genres and topics.

Body Time

Topic: Poem, X- 1) X-PAGE Quick Write: 60 min

Page Brainstorm, • Please get out a blank sheet of paper (lined or white). And down the
assignment left side of the page number 1 to 10. For each number I want you to
complete the list of your happiest childhood memories. (family times,
holidays, special occasions, moving to a new home or school, etc.)
• Would anybody like to share?
• We will now have our initial reading of the poem Where I am From
• Initial thoughts?
• Explain that we will be reading the poem again (this
will be the process we use for each poem. As we read
the poem, please circle, highlight, and/or underline
your favourite line in the poem.
• What is the poem saying? What does it mean? What is
your understanding of the poem?
• Now turn your page over, and make an “x” (there should be four
quadrants on the page - I may demonstrate on the board)
• I will read you a series of questions, and give you 30 seconds to write
as much as possible (these will also be up on the board for you to
view)
• Items that are found in your home
• Items that are found in your backyard
• Items/Places that are found in your neighborhood
 • Names of relatives
• Sayings you remember you parents/friends saying
• Names of family foods/dishes
• Places you keep your memories to look back on
• We will read the poem a second time. → See if you can recognize what
the author listed in their poem to answer the questions we just did.
• Items that are found throughout their home (bobby pins,
newspapers, race cars, barbie dolls)
• Items found in their backyard (broken rakes, dog bones, hoses
“coiled like green snakes”)
• Items found in their neighborhood (corner store, gas station,
playground, school, apple tree, etc.)
• Names of relatives (especially ones that jog memories of their
childhood; Uncle Bob, Aunt Erin, etc.)
• Sayings you remember your parents saying (in your own
language: “Silly Billy!”)
• Names of family foods/dishes you remember having at family
gatherings (tamales, black-eyed peas, Yorkshire pudding)
• Places you keep your memories to reflect back on them- a
photo album, social media, a journal, a box of memories, a
cork board
- What kinds of things did you write down on your XPAGE? Were they
similar or different from the poem?
• Third and final reading of the poem. Did your understanding of the
poem change? Stay the same?
• After we have read each poem in our bracket, you will need to
complete an assignment. You must answer two questions (provided
in the booklet) for each poem. Today I am choosing one of the
questions for you.
• You must choose one question on your own (in the future you
will pick both questions) but for this poem I am requiring that
you choose #9 as your first one → you must creatively
respond to this piece using a poem. You may use what we did
in the XPAGE activity to help you. → you are not limited to the
10 sentences/10 lines for this question, you may write more,
but not less.

Conclusion Time

• Thank you for all of your hard work today! N/A

• Tomorrow we will be finishing your PRT’s. Please come prepared to write during both
blocks.

Assessment

• Formative: Discussion, Questions, Observations.

• Summative: Poetry booklet.