“The blood jet is poetry, there is no stopping it” Sylvia Plath ~ 1932‐1963 Unit 3 Poetry Senior High Language Arts Creative Writing Lesson Plan Lesson Plan Objective: The objective of this section of Unit 3 Poetry is to identify and define the poetic terms and devices used in writing poetry. Lesson Activities: The following lesson activity will use the studied works of Sylvia Plath to help the student identify each of the terms we are using in Unit 3. This activity will include an online interactive study quiz which will help the student identify these poetic devices while studying the works of Sylvia Plath within this section of Poetry. Students will be asked to individually write complete definitions of each of the fifteen poetic terms listed below and to provide their own creative examples. The class will then be divided into their current study groups in which they share their written examples of each term to the study group. By the end of the study section, each individual will be required to complete the online quiz and print the results for a quiz grade. State Standards: These standards can be found under the “Instructional Objectives of Language Arts Creative Writing 1‐3 District Course #0724” for the Independent School District of Boise Idaho’s Secondary Education Curriculum and read as follows: 0724.03 Read, analyze, and demonstrate poetic forms and devices. These elements include (but are not limited to) metaphor, simile, meter, rhythm, imagery, form, rhyme, language devices (assonance, consonance, etc.), personification, cliché, mood/tone, voice, word choice. “Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences…”
Plath Venable 3/22/09
Evaluation of Student’s Performance: CATEGORY Individual Research/Writing Minimal Participation Student completes less than half of the term definitions and poetry writing examples. 0‐5 points Average Participation Student completes more than half of term definitions and poetry writing examples. 5‐8 points Exceptional Participation Student completes entire list of term definitions and poetry writing examples. 8‐10 points Group Discussion Student does not willingly participate and share in group discussion. 0‐3 points Student partially participates and shares examples in group discussion. 3‐5 points Student fully participates and share all examples in group discussion. 6‐8 points Online Quiz Student completes less than half of required quiz. 0‐8 points Student completes more Student successfully completes entire quiz. 15 than half of quiz, but does not complete quiz. points 8‐10 points List of Poetic Terms: 1. Alliteration 2. Assonance 3. Caesura 4. Consonance 5. End‐rhyme 6. Enjambment 7. Hyperbole 8. Imagery 9. Metaphor 10. Near rhyme 11. Onomatopoeia 12. Personification 13. Refrain 14. Rhyme 15. Simile Venable 3/22/09
Poetry for Senior High Language Arts Idaho Educational Standards 0724.03 Unit 3 Creative Writing
Directions: Below are listed fifteen quotes taken from the readings of Sylvia Plath. Please list the poetic term or device in the green colomn under "Insert Answers" that would be the best answer to use of the possible fifteen devices we have studied in this poetry unit. Remember that each answer will only be used once. If you have chosen incorrectly, please try again. Clues are inserted in the quotes in blue. Good luck! When you have finished with your quiz, please print out a copy of your answers to turn in for your quiz grade.
Number Titles of Poems:
Sylvia Plath Quotes:
1
An Appearance
2
Conversation Among the Ruins
"The smile of iceboxes annihilates me"
"Above the appalling ruin; in bleak light Of your stormy eye, magic takes flight"
3
Daddy
"It stuck in a barb wire snare. Ich, ich, ich, ich,"
4
Childless Woman
"My landscape is a hand with no lines"
5
Face Lift
"Pink and smooth as a baby"
6
Polly's Tree
7
Mushrooms
"a thicket of sticks, each speckled twig"
"Little or nothing. So many of us! So many of us!"
"Come clear of the shadow. History Nourishes these broken flutings,"
8
The Manor Garden
9
Three Women
Three Women
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"Can
Can such innocence kill and kill? It milks my life
such innocence kill and kill? It milks my life"
"With hands like derricks, looks fierce and black as rooks;"
10
The Queen's Complaint
11
Goatsucker
12
Virgin in a Tree
"Well‐named, ill‐famed a knavish fly‐by‐night"
"Pine‐needle armour protects Pitys from Pan's assault!"
13
Mystic
"Whose hopes are so low they are comfortable"
14
Southern Sunrise
15
Female Author
"Color of lemon, mango, peach these storybook villas"
"Favored(while suddenly the rains begin Beyond the window) she lies on cushions curled"
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personification
end‐rhyme
onomatopoeia
metaphor
simile
consonance
refrain
caesura
assonance
near rhyme
rhyme
alliteration
hyperbole
imagery
enjambment
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