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Join Leah Doryoseph at the ETAI Spring Conference on March 28, 2012, to explore key components of teaching poetry, including pre-reading activities, analysis, context, and reflective assessment. Discover how to engage students in the art of poetry through interactive sessions and stimulating discussions. Learn practical strategies to kindle your students' love for poetry and foster critical thinking skills. Don't miss this opportunity to set the HOTS on fire for you and your students!
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Set the HOTS On Fire For you and for your students! ETAI Spring Conference March 28, 2012 Leah Doryoseph
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” quote by Plutarch
The Seven Key Components • Pre-Reading Activity • Basic Understanding • Analysis and Interpretation • Bridging Text and Context • Post-Reading Activity • Reflection • Summative Assessment
Pre-Reading (getting in the mood) • What is poetry? • Don’t judge a book by its cover • Choices • Self-worth • Discrimination • Immigrants and their children • Legacy
What is Poetry? Reading poetry is like eating hot peppers, it sets my mouth on fire. • Does this poet like reading poetry or not? • How can you tell?
Studying poetry is like ______ A. Your/their turn. 5 minutes B. What do they expect next? Tell them you are going to read a poem about studying poetry by Billy Collins. Do they think he likes it or not? Read the poem or play a video of it being performed. • Each one must write something! • Read them out loud • Do they like to study poetry? Why? Why not?
Nuts and Bolts • At some point they need the vocabulary to understand the poem. • Ask the basic understanding questions from the book. • Ask if they think we will study the poem the way Collins wants us to or not. • Why do they think that? • Which thinking skill did they use to answer?
http://youtu.be/jimfmwzd6WI Introduction to Poetry Billy Collins I ask them to take a poemand hold it up to the lightlike a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poemand watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's roomand feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterskiacross the surface of a poemwaving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to dois tie the poem to a chair with ropeand torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hoseto find out what it really means.
The Seven Skills • comparing and contrasting • distinguishing different perspectives • explaining cause and effect • explaining patterns • inferring (reading between the lines) • problem solving
What patterns do you see? 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,___ box, clocks, fox, rocks, ox, ____, ___
Problem Solving • Mr. Kelada stood at a crossroad and needed to make a decision. • He looked into Mrs. Ramsey’s future as far as he could. • Then chose to sacrifice his own reputation instead.
Uncovering Motives • Why do people do the things they do? • Why did Mr. K say the pearls were fake? • Why did Mr. R bet? • Why was Mrs. R scared? How does this help us?
