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Unit Description
This unit focuses on reading, responding to, and writing poetry and drama, and on applying a variety of strategies to demonstrate comprehension. The defining characteristics, literary elements, and figurative language of poetry will be analyzed, including simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, proofreading, revising, and publishing. Vocabulary and grammar instruction occur within the context of the literature and student writing. Oral interpretations of poems provide an opportunity for building fluency, while publication of illustrated poems provides an opportunity for students to hone technology and desktop publishing skills. With regard to drama, narrative and dramatic techniques and conventions will be analyzed, including the use of dialogue, stage directions, sound effects, and sets. Dramatic scenes and short plays will be performed, as well as creative interpretation of a dramatic speech to enhance its meaning. Two offerings of Lessons 4 and 5 give options for teaching the drama components of this unit.
Enduring Understandings
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