Content Area: Language Arts Literacy

 

Index: 3.1G Grade 12 CPI 7

 

Standard: 3.1 Reading

 

Strand: G - Comprehension Skills & Response to Text

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 7 - The student will interpret how literary devices affect reading emotions and understanding.

 

Grade: 12

 

Sample Activities:

 

·      Students select a poem from the Romantic Period and list the images or words that prompt an emotional reaction. After scanning their list of responses, they illustrate the response that is strongest or most insistent.

 

·      After a unit on the variety of poetic forms, ranging from the epic to the ballad to the haiku, the teacher asks students to write down their preferred form along with one or two reasons for their choice and to submit the paper with their name on it. The teacher then makes up teams of two or three based on similarity of choice. Each team is to find at least three additional examples of its preferred poetic form and prepare a visual, musical, or verbal presentation for the class. Each presentation should include activities that allow the class to analyze the work for characteristic features of the form and content and to compose a visual, verbal, or musical response to the team’s poetic selection.