Description
Poetry activities need an oomph? These poetry graphic organizers and questions will work throughout the school year.
These poetry graphic organizers and questions will work with any poetry unit or with any poem. The diversity allows for you (or your students!) to choose the best way to demonstrate understanding.
First, information about the graphic organizers!
Specific poetry graphic organizers included:
1. Just Think!
Student reflection graphic organizer.
2. Basics
Title, author, theme, stanzas, scheme, speaker.
3. What’s That Sound?
Alliteration, assonance, consonance.
4. Take Three
Rhythm, repetition, rhyme.
5. Questions?
Time, setting, imagery, word choice, symbol, rhyme scheme.
6. Branching Out
Language choice and its effect.
7. Figurative Language
Simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, allusion.
8. Figurative Language
Open-ended format for discovery. Use this graphic organizer to limit or expand the study of figurative language.
9. Figurative Language
Simile, imagery, consonance, symbolism, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia, assonance, metaphor.
10. Modernism
Use with a poem from the modernist time period, and explore the elements of modernism from the poem.
11. Postmodernism
Use with a poem from the postmodernist time period, and explore the elements of postmodernism from the poem.
Overall contents of this poetry graphic organizer download:
• Eleven poetry graphic organizers that cover:
☆ Content of poetry (alliteration, rhyme scheme, theme, assonance, consonance, rhythm)
☆ Student connections to poetry.
☆ Language analysis—to reach language standards.
☆ Activating prior knowledge.
☆ Imagining in fun and creative ways.
Next, details about the poetry questions!
Specific poetry questions included:
• Five pages of questions that cover:
☆ Theme development.
☆ Types of questions (rhetorical, closed, open).
☆ Tone.
☆ Types of repetition (anaphora, alliteration, assonance).
☆ Historical context.
Each page covers an individual topic with three questions to help students chunk the information about the poem!
Plus! This poetry activity set includes:
☆ 10 poem suggestions with important devices used. Rely on this list to help you demonstrate examples of assonance, figurative language, and more.
☆ Suggestions for use.
These poetry graphic organizers and questions for poetry will allow you to diversify your lessons and provide student choice.
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