Taren Parsons
Allie Skiest
Melissa Murphy
Lela Dantrassy
Mini-Lesson Outline
Identifying Poetic Devices in Poetry Using Cell Phones
1. Objective for 5/6th grade class- 2 minutes
● SWBAT identify poetic devices within a poem and use Textthemob to submit responses
by applying the knowledge gained in the mini-lesson through the use of mobile devices.
● Hi class. For the past few days we have been examining literary devices found within
text. Today we are going to look at more examples and discuss poetic devices we have
learned about as well as some new devices that are found within poetry.
2. Warm-up and Review- 3 minutes
● Review of alliteration and personification (which was introduced on the previous day)
● Go through 2 slides explaining each device with examples
3. Warm-up activity using Text the Mob-4 minutes
● Open link to get to alliteration question: Which of the following is NOT an example of
Alliteration?- 2 minutes
○ students respond to question by texting their responses code to the given number
● Open link to get to personification question: Which of the following is an example of
Personification? - 2 minutes
○ Students respond to the question by texting their response code to the given
number
4. Introduce 2 new literary devices in this mini-lesson-3 minutes
● Slide describing imagery and a slide describing repetition
● (One person hand out poem near the end of this activity)
5. Activity: Practice with all learned literary devices by examining a poem and texting in
responses-3 minutes
● Hand out poem at the end of last activity
○ poem link: http://inp.cie.rpi.edu/~kraftr/RLK/5thGradePoems.html
Busy Bee
By Adam Pasquale
There is a busy bee
And her name is Mrs. Blumberg
She works at West Sand Lake
And teaches lots of kids
She will fly around the room
And check on all your work
She will make you write poems
And make you write reports
If you bring in all your work
She will give you a bee stamp
So you better watch out
She's a busy bee
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Ask students to read over the poem and mark it up with places they see personification,
alliteration, and especially repetition, and imagery. - 3 minutes
6. Click the link for open-ended poll everywhere questions. (using Text the Mob: Message
Board)- 8 minutes
● Please respond with one example you found and what type of poetic device it was- 2
minutes
○ Example, “Alliteration- Oliver the Organized Octopus only orders oranges
outside”
● 1. In what line is there an example of repetition?- 2 minutes
● 2. What line has an example of alliteration?- 2 minutes
● Discuss some of the responses that show up on the screen -2 minutes
● Short discussions about what students are texting into Text the Mob
Technology Break Down: The How-to Guide
1.Review Poll activity done with Text the Mob- 8 minutes
● Explain to class the process for using the technology by going viewing video that goes
through the process step by step- 5 minutes
○ How to create an account
○ How to create questions in an account
○ How/where students text in responses to the given number
● Go over Implications of Text the Mob technology for education- 3 minutes
○ List of things that it can be used for in the classroom from PowerPoint slide