Lesson+6


 * Grade Level: 9 **
 *  Unit: Poetry **
 * Lesson 6 **


 * Title of lesson: Life, Death, and Religion in Poetry **


 * Assignment type: slide show of images corresponding to poetic themes **


 * Lesson objectives: **
 * **Students will understand the prominent roles life, death, and religion have as subjects and/or themes in American poetry. **
 * **Students will be able to engage each others' minds in terms of visual poetic interpretations. **


 *  Time required to complete this lesson: 1-2 classes **


 * Assignment (homework or in-class: this is how the learner will practice the learning that has just occurred): **
 *  Students will choose either, life, death, religion, or a combination of any/all of these themes, at least 5 poems by a list of authors I have selected relating to their chosen theme, and create slide shows with images relating to their poems. Students will work in pairs, share who the other person's poets are and what theme they chose, and internet search for the poems corresponding to the slide show images. The top 3 pairs of students who research and find the poems to go with their partners' slide shows win prizes from me. Other classmates and I will monitor the research and slide show exchange for each pair to guard against cheating. **


 * Technology used: 280slides.com, internet search engines, possibly links provided in "Cool Websites of the Week" **


 *  The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way: **
 * I will be able to introduce a new theme via images alone to engage students' visual senses. Students will learn to associate images with poetry based on theme and will have insight into how they all choose different imagery to represent the same themes. **

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 * Resources/materials needed: 280 slides.com **
 * [|Click here for the link to the following slide show example.] **