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The Power of Poetry

The Power of Poetry. Maggie hsin-ying huang 12/18/2012. Roadmap. WHY should I teach poetry? Benefits Difficulties HOW do I teach it? Poetic Devices Classroom Activities (Reading and Writing) Idea Sharing: Design a 50-minute lesson . Teaching Poetry?.

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The Power of Poetry

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  1. The Power of Poetry Maggie hsin-yinghuang 12/18/2012

  2. Roadmap WHY should I teach poetry? • Benefits • Difficulties HOW do I teach it? • Poetic Devices • Classroom Activities (Reading and Writing) • Idea Sharing: Design a 50-minute lesson

  3. Teaching Poetry?

  4. Five-Line Poem: Poetry Lessons • On the first line write a noun of your choice. • On the second line write two adjectives joined by and or but to describe this noun. • On the third line write a verb (use the simple present or "-ing") and an adverb to describe this noun. • Start the fourth line with like or as followed by a comparison. • Start the final line with if only followed by a wish.

  5. Five-Line Poem

  6. Benefits • Provide a means of personal expression • Authentic language input • Concise yet content-rich reading material (easy to expand) • A model of creative language in use • A way to introduce vocabulary in context • A way to focus students’ attention on English pronunciation, rhythm, and stress

  7. Difficulties • Sophisticated in language and content • Metaphorical 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.

  8. The StarBy Ann Taylor, Jane Taylor

  9. Roadmap WHY should I teach poetry? • Benefits • Difficulties HOW do I teach it? • Poetic Devices • Classroom Activities (Reading and Writing) • Idea Sharing: Design a 50-minute lesson

  10. Poetic Devices https://sites.google.com/site/janeerieder/PoeticDevices.jpg

  11. Rhyme 1 I. Rhyming Pair Game All 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

  12. Rhyme 2 II. Fill in the missing rhyme! • Before listening • After listening

  13. 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/time.html

  14. 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 1 • Life is wonderful.

  15. Imagery 2 • Auditory, visual, tasting, smelling, sensory • A Mind Map

  16. Imagery 2 • A Mind Map Summer at the beach

  17. 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 here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound’s the sweep Of 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)－

  18. Metaphor 1

  19. Metaphor 1 What are the metaphors? Fill them in. • Before listening • After listening

  20. Metaphor 2 Hope is the thing with feathers That 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 storm That could abash the little bird That 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 －

  21. Roadmap WHY should I teach poetry? • Benefits • Difficulties HOW do I teach it? • Poetic Devices • Classroom Activities (Reading and Writing) • Idea Sharing: Design a 50-minute lesson

  22. 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.

  23. Classroom Activities 2 Form-Focused • Listing: 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.

  24. Classroom Activities 3 Comprehension / Evaluation • What does this line mean? Match the explanations with the lines in the poem. (Advanced level: Ask Ss to paraphrase the lines.) • Discussion questions • Drawing:Storyboard / Picture • Drama (Role play)

  25. Classroom Activities 4 Expansion • Speaking 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

  26. Classroom Activities Listing: Students make a list of words in a poem • A list of pronouns/verbs/concrete objects • A list of synonyms/antonyms • A list of words with the same idea

  27. Classroom Activities Matching Explanations: Here are some useful websites that offer ready-to-use explanations for poems. • http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/poets/ • http://www.shmoop.com/road-not-taken/(with line-by-line, very detailed explanations)

  28. Classroom Activities

  29. A Five-Line Poem: English

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

  31. The Road Not Taken: Resources Audio Files • http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15717 (Read by the poet) • http://poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/listen-to-poetry (Clear pronunciation) Animation • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llEf4B_EPQg Worksheet • http://tinyurl.com/dx3msdk

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