Poetry in Our World - Unit Overview
Learning Standard 3: Students will make oral presentations that demonstrate appropriate consideration of audience, purpose, and the information to be conveyed.
Learning Standard 10: Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the characteristics of different genres.
Learning Standard 14: Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the structure, elements, and theme of poetry and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding.
Learning Standard 15: Students will identify and analyze how an author's choice of words appeals to the senses, creates imagery, suggests mood, and sets tone.
Learning Standard 18: Students will plan and present effective dramatic readings,
recitations, and performances that demonstrate appropriate consideration of audience and purpose.
Learning Standard 20: Students will select and use appropriate genres, modes of reasoning, and speaking styles when writing for different audiences and rhetorical purposes.
Learning Standard 21: Students will demonstrate improvement in organization, content, paragraph development, level of detail, style, tone, and word choice (diction) in their compositions after revising them.
Learning Standard 25: Students will develop and use appropriate rhetorical, logical, and stylistic criteria for assessing final versions of their compositions or research projects before presenting them to varied audiences.