Story Builder: Lesson 3
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Lesson 3: What is Poetry?
- Ask your class if they know what a poem is. Ask if anyone can name or recite any poems.
- Talk to your class about the ways that poetry is different from stories. (You may want to make a list on paper or using WRITE on the XO):
- Poetry creates a mood or emotion
- The words in a poem often sounds beautiful and descriptive
- Poetry doesn’t need to tell a story or use the story elements (setting, characters, problem, resolution)
- Poems can be just a few lines long, or many pages
- Poems don’t need to make sense
- Poems don’t need proper punctuation or grammar
- Poems sometimes rhyme but they don’t have to
- Share a poem with your class. It can be one of your own favorites, or you can use the following example
Note: First you may want to explain that a “sparrow” is a small brown bird and “change” means coins in your pocket.)
Spill by Judith Thurman
the wind scatters
a flock of sparrow -
a handful of small change
spilled suddenly
from the clouds’ pockets.
- Before you read aloud, ask the class to close their eyes and focus on pictures that appear in their minds.
- After you read the poem, ask the class to draw the pictures that appeared in their minds using the Paint program on the XO Laptop.
- Look at each other’s pictures and discuss how each one relates to the poem.
- Encourage the class to read more poems. Look for a book of poetry to share or try to find a site with more poems online.
