Learning Goals

  1. SWBAT identify the tone and mood of a poem and explain using evidence from the text
  2. SWBAT identify and explain poetic devices such as metaphor, simile, rhyme, alliteration, symbolism and hyperbole in poetry
  3. SWBAT write poetry that is intentional with its tone and mood and correctly uses multiple forms of poetic devices that they have learned. 
  4. SWBAT identify a character’s intersecting identities and understand how they impact that character’s decisions. 
  5. SWBAT build their discussion skills by posing questions and building off of each other’s responses in student led discourse without teacher intervention.