Curriculum Unit
Liles Puleo
Mindfulness and Poetry
Title Author
KEY LEARNING, ENDURING UNDERSTANDING, ETC.
Living and nonliving things are interdependent.
Living things impact the ecosystem as they satisfy their basic needs for survival.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S) for the UNIT
What is mindfulness? What are benefits of mindfulness? What is poetry? How can I express my mindful experiences with poetry? How can I experience poetry mindfully? How can I experience art mindfully? How can I use poetry to express my experience with art?
CONCEPT A CONCEPT B CONCEPT C
Using mindfulness to write poetry
Mindfulness
Poetry
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS A ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS B ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS C
How can I experience the world around me mindfully?
How can I write poetry mindfully?
How can I listen to poetry mindfully?
What is mindfulness?
How can I use mindfulness to help me learn?
How can I use mindfulness when writing poetry?
What is poetry?
What is the purpose of listening to poetry?
What is the purpose of writing poetry?
w have the structures of the horseshoe crab helped it to survive over millions of years?
VOCABULARY A VOCABULARY A VOCABULARY A
Poetry, notice, details, focus, feelings, rhythm, conventions, syllables, rhyme.
Mindfulness, meditation, breath, awareness, social, emotional, present moment, reactionary, connection, relationships
Poetry, ekphrasis, Paint Chip Poetry, Erasure Poetry, Free Verse, Acrostic, I Am Poem, Haiku, Concrete Poetry, Prose
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/MATERIAL/TEXT/FILM/RESOURCES