Cinquain Poetry Lesson
Kelli Sprenger
Standard #7: Planning for Instruction
Cinquian Poetry Lesson
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This is a lesson plan from my placement at Palmer Elementary. The lesson was originally created for the Grand Rapids Public Schools district by a team, including my cooperating teacher. I changed some of the lesson, but was able to keep a lot of it the same. This was the fourth lesson of the poetry unit, all of which was taught by me. This lesson followed a lesson of a list poem, so it was very different. The planning for this lesson was pretty straight forward, being that I was able to follow much of the lesson plans that were provided. In preparing, I decided to find other poems that I thought the students would like, and I even wrote one of my own. In the previous lesson, turning and talking to a neighbor worked very well as a brainstorming technique and the students seem to enjoy doing it that way, so I chose to do that again for this lesson. During the lesson, I first had to make sure the students understood the parts of speech that are used in a cinquain poem. This is one thing I would have liked to have done better because several of the students needed more explanation than I had planned for. Next time I would like to make sure ahead of time that the students had the background knowledge of parts of speech to make choosing correct words for each of the lines of the poem.
This shows an understanding of standard #7 because in planning this lesson, I found ways to engage the students in meaningful discussion while still allowing them to enjoy learning. In reflecting on the lesson, I know I could have done better to explain the parts of speech, but it also shows an attempt to draw upon cross-disciplinary skills. The students really enjoyed sharing their poems with the class, and most were able to follow the format correctly to create wonderful cinquain poems.
This shows an understanding of standard #7 because in planning this lesson, I found ways to engage the students in meaningful discussion while still allowing them to enjoy learning. In reflecting on the lesson, I know I could have done better to explain the parts of speech, but it also shows an attempt to draw upon cross-disciplinary skills. The students really enjoyed sharing their poems with the class, and most were able to follow the format correctly to create wonderful cinquain poems.