MAGGIE HSIN-YING HUANG12/18/2012

The Power of Poetry

Roadmap

WHY should I teach poetry?BenefitsDifficulties

HOW do I teach it?Poetic DevicesClassroom Activities (Reading and Writing)Idea Sharing: Design a 50-minute lesson

Teaching Poetry?

Five-Line Poem: Poetry Lessons

1. On the first line write a noun of your choice.

2. On the second line write two adjectives joined by and or but to describe this noun.

3. On the third line write a verb (use the simple present or "-ing") and an adverb to describe this noun.

4. Start the fourth line with like or as followed by a comparison.

5. Start the final line with if only followed by a wish.

Five-Line Poem

Sea By Kim Kyoung Tae

sea silent and cruel 

changing constantly like a capricious woman 

if only I could fall in love with her 

Monday Morning 7:00 a.m. By Lee KyoungHuen

Alarm! Unconscious but conscious 

Waking slowly Like in a dream 

If only today were a holiday

Benefits

Provide a means of personal expressionAuthentic language inputConcise yet content-rich reading material

(easy to expand)A model of creative language in useA way to introduce vocabulary in contextA way to focus students’ attention on English

pronunciation, rhythm, and stress

Difficulties

Sophisticated in language and contentMetaphorical and highly allusive/elusive

Broader view of “poem”= a piece of writing in which the words are chosen for their beauty and sound and are carefully arranged, often in short lines which rhyme.

Opens the doors to pop-songs, haiku, pattern poems, picture poems, nursery rhymes and folk-songs.

The StarBy Ann Taylor, Jane Taylor

Roadmap

WHY should I teach poetry? Benefits Difficulties

HOW do I teach it?Poetic DevicesClassroom Activities (Reading and Writing)Idea Sharing: Design a 50-minute lesson

Poetic Devices

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Rhyme 1

I. Rhyming Pair GameAll the cards are place faced down and students/small groups take it in turns to pick up two. If the two words rhyme, they keep the two cards. The position of the cards must be kept as at the start to help the students remember where the cards are.http://www.esl-lounge.com/pronunciation/pronrhymingpairgame.php

End Rhyme：尾韻

Full Rhyme全韻

( 結尾的母音和子音完全相同 )

‧Eye/sky/high‧all/ball/call‧snow/know/below

Half Rhyme半韻

( 結尾子音相同，但母音不同 )

‧chess/grass‧hall/hell‧ant/cent

Vowel Rhyme母音韻

( 母音相同，但子音不同 )

‧like/light‧rain/name‧grape/make

Rhyme 2

II. Fill in the missing rhyme!Before listening After listening

Rhyme 3

Online Rhyming Dictionary （押韻字典），輸入關鍵字即可查詢按音節數歸類的同韻字

http://www.rhymezone.com/ http://www.rhymer.com/RhymingDictionary/ti

me.html

Imagery 1

Life is wonderful.

I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom, for me and you. And I think to myself,what a wonderful world. 

I see skies of blue, And clouds of white. The bright blessed day, The dark sacred night. And I think to myself, What a wonderful world. 

The colors of the rainbow, So pretty in the sky. Are also on the faces, Of people going by, I see friends shaking hands. Saying, "How do you do?" They're really saying, "I love you". 

I hear babies cry, I watch them grow, They'll learn much more, Than I'll ever know. And I think to myself, What a wonderful world. 

Imagery 2

Auditory, visual, tasting, smelling, sensory

A Mind Map

Summer at the beach

Imagery 2

A Mind Map Summer at the beach

sightblue sky, blue ocean, white sand, tall green palm trees,

colorful swimsuits, bright sunshine...

hearingmusic from the radio, the sound of the waves or the wind,

people shouting and laughing, a sizzling barbeque...

touch hot soft sand, creamy suntan lotion, warm breeze...

smellthe salty sea breeze, the smell of a barbeque, the fragrance of

suntan lotion...

taste salt water, pineapple juice, food on the grill...

Imagery 3

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if there is some mistake.The only other sound’s the sweepOf easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.

－Robert Frost (1874-1963) －

Metaphor 1

Metaphor 1

What are the metaphors? Fill them in.Before listening After listening

Metaphor 2

Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soul,

And sings the tune--without the words, And never stops at all,  

And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the stormThat could abash the little birdThat kept so many warm.  

I’ve heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea;

Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me.－ Emily Dickinson －

Roadmap

WHY should I teach poetry? Benefits Difficulties

HOW do I teach it?Poetic DevicesClassroom Activities (Reading and Writing)Idea Sharing: Design a 50-minute lesson

Classroom Activities 1

Warm-up Prediction task: Show Ss pictures/ List key words and ask—what might be the poem about? Present a unit question: Prepare a question related to the theme of the poem. Ask Ss in the beginning of the class but don’t rush them to answer. Announce that it will be their goal of the lesson. In the end of the lesson, ask Ss the same question again.

Form-FocusedListing: Students make a list of words in a poem.Unscramble: Ss put the lines/stanzas into the

correct order. (T can read the poem first to offer some clues.)

Gap Fill –Fill in the words: rhymes / metaphors (T can play

the audio file of the poem first to offer some clues.)

Missing sentences: Some sentences in the poem are missing. Ss need to put them back.

Classroom Activities 2

Classroom Activities 3

Comprehension / EvaluationWhat does this line mean?

Match the explanations with the lines in the poem. (Advanced level: Ask Ss to paraphrase the lines.)

Discussion questionsDrawing: Storyboard / PictureDrama (Role play)

Classroom Activities 4

ExpansionSpeaking Activities:

Ss take turns recite the poem (as a group or as a class).

Writing Activities:- Ss expand the poem into a prose/story- Ss write a letter to a character in the poem or to the author- A five-line poem based on a related topic

Classroom Activities

Listing: Students make a list of words in a poem

A list of pronouns/verbs/concrete objectsA list of synonyms/antonymsA list of words with the same idea

Classroom Activities

Matching Explanations: Here are some useful websites that offer ready-

to-useexplanations for poems.http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/

poets/

http://www.shmoop.com/road-not-taken/(with line-by-line, very detailed explanations)

Classroom Activities

A Five-Line Poem: English

English

Tough but interesting

Absorbing slowly

Like a growing puppy

If only I could grow up quickly

English

Simple but complicated

Change unpredictably

Like a magic cube

If only I could solve it

Idea Sharing! Design a 50-minute lesson and share with us.

The Road Not Taken: Resources

Audio Fileshttp://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/1571

7 (Read by the poet)http://poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/li

sten-to-poetry (Clear pronunciation)Animationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llEf4B_EPQgWorksheethttp://tinyurl.com/dx3msdk