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Group Work : Longfellow’s Poetry Essential Question : What gives life purpose?

Group Work : Longfellow’s Poetry Essential Question : What gives life purpose?. Notes together as a class on stanza and rhyme scheme Reading out loud as a class “A Psalm of Life” and “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” Work in groups to interpret , compare , and contrast the poems.

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Group Work : Longfellow’s Poetry Essential Question : What gives life purpose?

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  1. Group Work: Longfellow’s PoetryEssential Question: What gives life purpose? • Notes together as a class on stanza and rhyme scheme • Reading out loud as a class “A Psalm of Life” and “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” • Work in groups to interpret, compare, and contrast the poems. • Work in groups to complete a group quiz on the poems. • You may not collaborate with someone else (besides Mrs. B) on your assignment or quiz

  2. “Psalm” and “Tide” Group Analysis • Read the poems silently to yourselves. • Designate one person to read them again, aloud, to the group. • Work in a group to answer the questions about the poems in the margins, as well as the following: • Text Analysis: Stanza and Rhyme Schemeand Reading Strategy: Reading Traditional Poetrypg. 134. • Assessment Practice pg. 135 • Call Mrs. B over to come check it when you are finished

  3. “Psalm” and “Tide” Group Analysis • After completing the workbook assignments, work as a group to complete this giant foldable: “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” by H.W. Longfellow “A Psalm of Life” by H.W. Longfellow Define the rhyme scheme and give an example (include one stanza and label it). Mimic the rhyme scheme by writing one original poetic stanza as a group which uses the same rhyme scheme as poem. Summarize the poem in complete sentences. Explain, in complete sentences, a situation in life in which this poem would be applicable. Draw and color a visual representation of the MEANING of the poem. Define the rhyme scheme and give an example (include one stanza and label it). Mimic the rhyme scheme by writing one original poetic stanza as a group which uses the same rhyme scheme as poem. Summarize the poem in complete sentences. Explain, in complete sentences, a situation in life in which this poem would be applicable. Draw and color a visual representation of the MEANING of the poem.

  4. “Psalm” and “Tide” Group Analysis • Once your group has finished the workbook assignments and the giant foldable, take the reading quiz on these two poems. • You may work ONLY with the members of your group, but each person must turn in a bubble sheet with the multiple choice answers. • Each person must also complete the short answer and extended response questions. • Take the reading quiz on Devil and Tom Walker as a group also (workbook pgs. 108-127.

  5. HOMEWORK • Take home a workbook. • Read from “Self Reliance” and from “Nature” pgs. 136-145. • Complete all of the exercises on pgs. 143, 144, and 145.

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