CurriculumUnit
Ekphrasis:FromPhotographstoPoems Merry Ostheimer
Title Author KEYLEARNING,ENDURINGUNDERSTANDING,ETC.
Studentswilldeveloppoetrywritingskillsastheyacquireand build vocabulary.Ekphrasisispoetryaboutanyartformcreatedtoevokeasensory response.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S) fortheUNIT
Howcanbuildingvocabularyteachpoetrywriting?
| CONCEPTA | CONCEPTB |
| BuildingVocabulary | WritingPoetry |
| ESSENTIALQUESTIONS A | ESSENTIALQUESTIONSB |
| HowcanIlearnnewwords? | Poetryisanartform consistingoffigurative |
| languageintentionally structuredbylines. Whatis | |
| figurativelanguage? |
VOCABULARYA VOCABULARYA
friendlydefinition,synonyms,connections,photograph simile,metaphor,personification,onomatopoeia,alliteration
ADDITIONALINFORMATION/MATERIAL/TEXT/FILM/RESOURCES
Poetry Foundation: a website that allows exploration of poems, poets, topics, forms, and school/period of poems. Routman, Regie: Kids’ Poems Teaching Second Graders to Love Writing Poetry. New York, NY: Scholastic, 2000.
CONCEPTC
MosaicsandPoems
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONSC
Mosaicsarepiecesofartwherean imageismade fromassemblingsmallpiecesof glass,stone, tiles,etc.Howcanyoucreateamosaicusing wordsfrom yourpoem?
VOCABULARYA
mosaics,patterns,tessellation,tiles,arrangement