DO NOW

Read the poem “Introduction to Poetry”

Use the blank space to sketch three (3) separate images you can picture as you read the poem

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“Introduction to Poetry”• What do your pictures have to do

with the poem title?

• What is the speaker in the poem trying to say?

• Let’s take a closer look…

Introduction to PoetryI ask them to take a poemand hold it up to the lightlike a color slideor press an ear against its hive.I say drop a mouse into a poemand watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem’s roomand feel the walls for a light switch.I want them to waterskiacross the surface of a poemwaving at the author’s name on the shore.But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with ropeand torture a confession out of it.they begin beating it with a hoseto find out what it really means.

SlaveryLearning Objectives

I can read and re-read a poem to find layers of meaning.

I can identify common poetic devices, especially those that have to do with structure, figurative language and repetition.

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POETRY!• Take out FOUND POEM (#2)• Metaphor: poetry is a car

• Paint job reading• Engine… “pop the hood”

reading• Mean machine reading!

How to Read a Poem Chart!

The Negro Speaks of RiversI’ve known rivers:I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than theflow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddybosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I’ve known rivers:Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

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Powerful Stories Anchor Chart

• Let’s add Langston Hughes’s poem to the chart!!

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Exit Ticket!• List three (3) poetic tools with

which you are most familiar

• List three (3) tools that need help

• What might be hardest for you when we “pop the hood” of another poem?

Homework

• Poet’s Toolbox Matching Worksheet

• Worksheet + Poetry Toolbox!!

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