Poetry 2

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Let's review poetry!

• poetry

• stanza

• line

written in lines that may have rhyme or follow a rhythm

a group of lines

a straight row of words in a poem

• written in lines that may have rhyme or follow a rhythm

• a group of lines

• a straight row of words in a poem

On the first assignment, you read a poem out loud. Now it's time to answer questions.

​But first...

We need to learn a few things to help us answer those questions!

​Unlike other writing, poems have lines instead of sentences. They CAN be written with sentences, but they don't have to. Poets (authors who write poems) will think about where they want to end each line before starting a new line.

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What is a line?

You probably already know what rhyme or rhyming is because you've been learning about it since Pre-K! But just in case...

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What is rhyming?

Draw

Circle the rhyming words

Multiple Choice

1. Which lines from the poem rhyme?

Open Ended

What ways can you figure out the meaning to the word begged?

​How can you figure out the meaning of a word?

• look it up in a dictionary

• look it up online

• reread the text and look for context clues

Audio Response

What strategy did YOU use to figure out the meaning of the word begged?

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Multiple Choice

2. In line 6, the word begged means -

Where should we go to find this answer?

Multiple Choice

Which stanza in the poem should we reread to answer this question?

• stanza 1

• stanza 3

• stanza 4

• stanza 6

• stanza 7

The beginning phrase of the question gives us a clue. The "end of the poem" would have to be stanza 7.

Audio Response

Reread stanza 7

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Now look for text evidence that matches one of the answers. Be careful that you're not tricked by D. now like bedtime. Just because the leaves say, "It is so nice to go to bed!" doesn't mean they like bedtime.

Draw

Highlight the text evidence you found to support one of the answers.

Multiple Choice

3. By the end of the poem, the leaves change their mind most likely because they -

​Poetry often uses figurative language.

​You may not know or remember what figurative language is, but you will very soon!

​We're going to learn about a type of figurative language called personification.

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Multiple Choice

What does personification mean?

• giving human qualities to nonhuman things

• to be a person

• to be really loud

• personification

Let's read question 4 together.

Do you see any text evidence in stanza 1 that supports one of the answer choices?

Draw

Highlight that text evidence here.

Do you see any text evidence in stanza 2 that supports one of the answer choices?

Draw

Highlight that text evidence here.

Do you see any text evidence in stanza 5 that supports one of the answer choices?

Draw

Highlight that text evidence here.

Do you see any text evidence in stanza 7 that supports one of the answer choices?

Draw

Highlight that text evidence here.

Multiple Choice

Based on the text evidence that you found and highlighted, answer the question,

4. The personification, or human qualities, given to the leaves throughout the poem emphasize -

Multiple Choice

Should you go back and reread the stanzas surrounding line 19?

• yes

• no

Multiple Choice

Use the text evidence we just found to answer this question,

5. Read line 19 from the poem, "But the great Tree did no such thing;" Based on the poem, the reader can infer that the author means the tree -

​Let's check the easy answers first: B and D

​Let's check the easy answers first: B and D

​Let's check the easy answers first: B and D

​Let's check the easy answers first: B and D

Now the hard answer choices: A

I guess we should figure out what "speaker" of a poem means first!

Now the hard answer choices: A

Now the hard answer choices: C

Multiple Choice

Based off of the text evidence, what is the answer to questions 6?

6. How are the stanzas in the poem alike?

Multiple Select

To find the meaning (definition) of the word frolicked, I should... (pick all that apply)

• Google it

• look it up in the dictionary

• guess

• reread the stanza that has the word in it and figure it out from context clues

​When you look up a past tense verb, a plural noun, or a word with prefixes and/or suffixes, you might not find that EXACT word on Google or in the dictionary!

​WARNING!!

Multiple Choice

Based off of the Google search we did, which word means the closest to "play and move about cheerfully, excitedly, or energetically" for frolic (frolicked)

• great Tree

• clung

• danced

• their way

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Draw

Highlight the descriptive language you see in lines 23-25.

Multiple Choice

Use what you learned in the last several slides to pick the correct answer for 8.

​We've learned SO many new things in today's lesson. Let's review everything we've learned!

Match

Match the following

• line

• rhyme

• speaker

• stanzas

• personification

is a single row of words in a poem

to have the same ending sounds in 2 or more words

the narrator of the poem; the person who is telling the story

groups of lines in a poem

giving human qualities to nonhuman things

• is a single row of words in a poem

• to have the same ending sounds in 2 or more words

• the narrator of the poem; the person who is telling the story

• groups of lines in a poem

• giving human qualities to nonhuman things

Drag and Drop

Descriptive Language: The ​​

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(sight) elephant sat in the ​

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(touch) sunlight peacefully ​

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(sound) the ​

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(taste) ​

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(smell) grass.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

gigantic

warm

crunching

sweet

fragrant

Audio Response

How do you figure out the meanings or definitions of unknown words?

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