November 14, 2018

Objective:  I can analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a poem (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end, the choice of how to provide a resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact (RL11-12.5).
Agenda:

• Entry Task:  Look back at your Biography Interview in particular your favorite childhood memory and generate more ideas about it in your notebook; if you didn’t share your favorite, write it down now in your notebook.  
  
  • Turn and share your favorite childhood memory with a neighbor
    
• Copy the definition of a Bio Poem in your notebook
  
• Follow along to "Where I'm From" by George Ella Lyon on our first read
  
  • On your second read, annotate for how the poem begins and ends as well as its overall structure
    
    • What do you notice?
      
    • What is aesthetic?
      
  • Share out our findings
    
• Utilize the I Am From template to write your own version of the poem.
  
• Watch the I Am From video to see how eight-year-old Sage made the poem her own  
  
  • Write your own by filling in the template
    
• Exit Task:  Check out the I Am From Project!  Submit your poem to iamfromproject@gmail.com to see if yours gets published.