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Grade Level: 9  Unit: Poetry Lesson 10

Title of lesson: New Poetic Voices

Description of lesson: Students will work independently, with partners, and in writing groups on composing their own poetry. They will also create digital storybooks illustrating their poems, which we will share with the class.

Assignment type: original poetry composition, computerized storybook creation based on poems

Lesson objectives:
 * Students will understand their own creative writing processes.
 * Students will be able to write and present in storybook form their own poetry.
 * Students will understand how to work with others to peer review and revise their own work.

 Time required to complete this lesson: 3 classes

Assignment (homework or in-class: this is how the learner will practice the learning that has just occurred): media type="custom" key="7820571"

Technology used: storybird.com, polldaddy.com

 The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way: The class survey from polldaddy.com will help me personally assess the unit, and I may share some of the results with the class depending on relevance. Storybird.com enables students to display their own work and create books themselves. In this way, they will be able to take creative ownership over their original poems.