WVSU LESSON PLAN FORMAT (Updated 1/13)

Teacher Candidate Amanda Carpenter

Date April 28, 2014
School
Sissonville Middle School
Grade/Subject 7th Grade / English
Unit Topic Edgar Allen Poe Poetry
Lesson Topic The Raven / Narrative Poetry, Tone, and compare and contrast
different audio readings
Lesson One
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES/ STUDENT OUTCOMES
1. a. Students will be able to categorize characteristics of Narrative
Poetry
b. Students will be able to apply their knowledge on Narrative
Poetry and identify characteristics of The Raven to determine why it
is a narrative poem
2. a. Students will be able to appraise differences in reading The
Raven, to hearing it read on audio by listening to it being read.
3. a. Students will identify Alliteration in the poem The Raven
b. Students will identify Assonance in the poem The Raven
c. Students will identify Internal Rhyme in the poem The Raven
d. Students will identify Imagery in the poem The Raven
e. Students will identify the tone of the poem The Raven and
describe it in writing
WV CSOS
1. R.L.7.5 Analyze how poems form contributes to its meaning
2. R.L.7.7 Compare and Contrast a poem to its audio version; analyzing
the effects of techniques unique to each medium.
3. R.L.7.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used
in text; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions (e.g.
alliteration, assonance) of sounds on a specific stanza of a poem
NATIONAL STANDARDS
N/A
MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK
Overall Time 90 mins.
Time Frame
10 mins. Diagnostic testing of key terms and applying them to poetry
5 mins.
Introduce class to vocabulary terms needed for days activities and
introduction

5 mins.
5 mins.
5 mins.
symbol
10 mins.
along on a

to what I will be teaching

Background information/PP to Introduce the class to Edgar Allen Poe
Discuss Narrative Poetry and characteristics of narrative poetry
Introduce The Raven and discuss the importance of the Raven as a

Have them to listen to an audio reading of The Raven while they follow
hard
copy
5 mins.
Discuss why The Raven is a narrative poem and point out certain
unique characteristics
40 mins.
Have the students complete the activity packet
5 mins.
Closure, summarize key point
STRATEGIES
Teacher led discussions, flip lesson, class discussions, audio readings, worksheets,
group work
DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION/ ADAPTATIONS/ INTERVENTIONS
(Learning Styles, Students with Special Needs, Cultural Differences, ELL)
copies of poems to handout to fulfill visual learner needs
audio readings of poem to fulfill audio learners
group work so all students can receive peer support
PROCEDURES: Introduction/ Lesson Set
1st - Pass out the pretest and allow them to complete and take up to take
home and grade after class.
Discuss what I will be teaching them and what our goals for the day is
2nd Have key terms on the smart board when they walk into the room to write
into a voc. journal.
3rd -Then introduce them to Edgar Allen Poe, describe who Edgar Allen Poe is,
his contributions as a poet and a basic autobiography of his life, so students
will have a better understanding of his poetry.
4th Explain what narrative poetry is and what its characteristics are
PROCEDURES: Body & Transitions
Pass Out The Raven Packet
1st Begin by talking about The Raven, and the significance of the Raven as a
symbol
2nd Have them listen to an audio reading of the poem, while they follow along
on a copy of the poem that will be in their packets.
3rd Discuss why this is a narrative poetry aloud, have them to identify parts of
the poem that make it a narrative poem
Discuss How the sound effects used in the reading effects the overall
meaning/tone of the poem
Have the students get in small groups
identify 5 terms they were unfamiliar with in the poem and define them
Identify different poetic elements and apply them to the poem
1. Alliteration
2. Assonance

3. Internal Rhyme
4. Imagery
5. Tone
Identify the setting of the poem
Identify words that are repeated throughout the poem
Put Stanzas of poem in order
Them have them list any question they may have on the poem, that I can
explain at the beginning of our next class meeting
PROCEDURES: Closure
Take up Students Packets
Summarize the key points of the lesson
Answer any questions they have
Have them put Desk Back
Gather materials
Line Up
ASSESSMENT: Diagnostic
Pre Test at the beginning of the unit with voc. Terms and how they apply to
poetry
Asking questions at the beginning of lesson, to gauge prior knowledge and
gain interest
ASSESSMENT: Formative
Asking questions as I am presenting
Definitions, and application of poetry elements worksheet
Walk around an help students as they are working on the worksheets
ASSESSMENT: Summative
No summative assessment for this lesson
MATERIALS
Computer
Speakers
Internet access
audio readings of poem
Smart Board
Packets with copy of poem, and worksheets
Power Points
EXTENDED ACTIVITIES
If Student Finishes Early
I am including a picture they can color in their packets, they could work on
those quietly
If Lesson Finishes Early
Have the students to attempt to write their own short narrative poems
If Technology Fails
Will have readings copied on CD
Will have vocabulary terms in their packets
Will have a copy of all power points so I can read the information aloud and

write on white board

POST-TEACHING
Reflections
Prior to teaching this lesson. I gave the students a pretest to diagnose their
knowledge on elements of poetry. As you will see from the chart below, the
students were lacking in most areas. This lesson was designed around the elements
of poetry they scored the lowest on in their pretest. Using Edgar Allan Poes The
Raven, the students learned to identify alliteration, assonance, internal rhyme, and
imagery. We did a guided class activity to learn the terms and how to identify them.
I then handed out a teacher made assessment to see how well the students learned
the concepts. I was pleased with the overall gains the students made. One area of
the lesson that needs improvement is time management. This was intended to be a
90 minute lesson but only took the students 70 minutes to complete it.
Data Based Decision Making
After analyzing the data, it appears the students still need some work in identifying
tone. They made the greatest gains in identifying what a narrative poem was.
Overall, I was pleased with the outcome of my lesson.

Poetry DATA
30
25
20
15
10
5
0

Series 1

Series 2

Name ________________________________
Poetry Pretest
1. The repetition of the same consonant sound is?
a. alliteration
b. assonance
c. simile
d. imagery
2.
a.
b.
c.
d.

The repetition of the same vowel sounds is? ____________________________

alliteration
assonance
simile
imagery

3.
a.
b.
c.
d.

She was like a rainy day is an example of a/an:

imagery
metaphor
simile
alliteration

4. What kind of poem tells a story? _____________________________________

5. Which of the following lines contains an internal rhyme
a. Lillie Lou lost the bucket
b. Corn spilled on the floor
c. Daniel dove for the treasure trove
d. The oil hissed in the pan

6. What kind of poem could be a love song?

_________________________________________
7. What word means to appeal to the senses?
a. imagery
b. simile
c. alliteration
d. assonances
8.
a.
b.
c.
d.

Which of the following sentence contains a metaphor?

The wind howled like a wolf all night long and kept me awake.
My face stung from the pelting rain, which felt like hard glass beads.
In the fierce storm the ship was a tin can, bobbing up and down in the waves.
Each post in the fence is as rough as sandpaper.

9. What is the general attitude of a piece of writing?

_________________________________
10. The car horn beeps as the car passes by, beeps is an example of:
a. Metaphor
b. Simile
c. Onomatopoeia
d. Alliteration

Narrative Poetry

The Raven
By: Edgar Allen Poe
Name:
_________________________________

Choose 5 vocabulary words from this list to define:

quaint

lore

chamber

bleak

implore

token

beguiling

discourse

placid

melancholy

ominous

nepenthe

tempest

undaunted

balm

1._______________
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2._______________
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3._______________
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4._______________
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5._______________
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Poetic Elements

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
In the lines above, find the four words that are an example of ALLITERATION and
record them:
_________________________________
_________________________________

________________________________
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And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain

Thrilled me-filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
In the lines above, find the four words that are an example of ASSONANCE and
record them:
_________________________________

__________________________________

_________________________________

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Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
In the lines above, find two words that are an example of INTERNAL RHYME and
record them:
________________________________

___________________________________

Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yoreWhat this grim, ungainly, ghastly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore
In the lines above, find four examples of IMAGERY and record them:
_______________________________

____________________________________

_______________________________

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What is the tone of The Raven?

________________________________________________________________________
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Throughout the poem, many words are repeated, can you find three examples of
this in the poem?

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Put the stanzas from The Raven in order by writing the numbers 1-4 on the
lines provided. ______
Presently my soul grew stronger;

hesitating then no longer,

"Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I
scarce was sure I heard you"--here I opened wide the door-- Darkness
there and nothing more.
______

By that Heaven that bends above us--by that God we both adore-Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore-- Clasp a
rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore."
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

______

Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,

"Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore-Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore
Of 'Never--nevermore.'"

_____

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I
wished the morrow;--vainly I had sought to borrow . From my books
surcease of sorrow--sorrow for the lost Lenore-- For the rare and radiant

maiden whom the angels name Lenore-- Nameless here for evermore.