UNIT X 226 | UNIT 6 Instructional Routine: Language Arts p. Txxix • Essential Question: How do poems help us visualize? Ask the Essential Question and give students a chance to discuss their ideas in pairs before sharing with the whole group. ANSWERS Sample answer: Poems help us visualize by using figurative words and descriptions. They often use strong adjectives and describe things we can feel, see, touch, smell, or taste. A Poetry • Recognize and analyze rhyme and structure Remind students that a poem uses meaning, sound, and rhythm to express feelings. Poets also use words that rhyme to create rhythm and sound. Review the features of a poem by underlining the words that rhyme. Circle the words that express feelings. Ask: What is the purpose of a poem? (Poems are written to express feelings.) What features does a poem have? (Poems use figurative language, rhyming, rhythm, and sounds to express feelings and ideas.) What other poems have we read? • Preview and predict Have students preview the title, images, and poems. Ask: What do you think these poems are about? What do you think they will express? Tell students that they will listen to the poems more than once so they can check and confirm their predictions. Then play the audio, asking students to listen for the general idea before looking at the words. • Listen actively Play the audio a second time, this time asking students to read along silently and check their predictions. Have volunteers share whether their predictions were correct. • B Demonstrate understanding by responding to questions Read aloud the sentences. Clarify unfamiliar vocabulary by revisiting it in context. Then have students work in pairs to use information from the poems to complete Activity B. ANSWERS 1. Paul Revere’s Ride; The event happened on April 18, 1775. 2. Betsy’s Battle Flag; The three colors were blue, white, and red. 3. The Message of the Liberty Bell; The name of the bell is the Liberty Bell. EXPLORE AND LEARN PRACTICE DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Scaffold Provide students with sentence stems to respond to Activity B. Model how to find information from the poem and make notes for each question. Then use the stem and your notes to answer the question. Support students as they continue with the remaining questions and stems. 1. The event happened on _______. 2. The three colors were _________. 3. The name of the bell is _______. Amplify Have students research a person from the Revolutionary War and write down as much as they can about their appearance and character. Then have them write one ABAB stanza of a poem that helps us visualize this person. from The Message of the Liberty Bell by Mrs. Elvira Robinson From sea to sea, from pole to pole, The echoes of that bell shall roll, Till freedom comes to every soul Poetry A Read the poems. from Paul Revere’s Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year B Read the sentences. Which poem are the sentences about? Write the title. Then, answer the questions with a classmate. Find evidence in the poems. 1. A man rode a horse through a town late at night to tell people that the British were coming to attack them. When did the event happen? 2. In 1776, a woman made the flag for the United States of America. What three colors made up the first American flag? 3. People rang a famous bell on July 8, 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was read aloud. Today, the bell is a symbol of freedom. What is the name of the bell? from Betsy’s Battle Flag by Minna Irving Fast her nimble fingers flew To sew the stars upon the blue With weary eyes and aching head She stitched the stripes of white and red How do poems help us visualize? ? ESSENTIAL QUESTION TEXT GENRE Poetry You are going to read parts of three different poems. Poetry uses meaning, sound, and rhythm to express feelings. When you read the poems, you will find: • figurative language • words that rhyme CONNECT TO Language Arts UNIT 6 226 UNIT 6 / CONNECT TO LANGUAGE ARTS
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