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Grade Level: 9  Unit: Poetry Lesson 2

Title of lesson: Poets as Real People

In our understanding of poetry and literature in general, sometimes we think of writers as artists unlike ourselves whose talents and work separate them from the real world when the opposite is true. Artists emerge from within the variety of social fabrics. They come from the world itself even if they strive to reject that world. We will discuss biographical information to a handful of famous American poets and how their lives affected their work and how that work affects the world. I will be showing a creative digital story about one such poet to introduce these concepts.

Assignment type: 1) Research assignment assigned *Research Project The research project calls for annotations of 3-5 poems using awesomehighlighter.com. To see an example, [|click here]

 2) Creation of a comic strip like the example provided

Lesson objectives:
 * Students will be able to provide some basic biographical information on American poets.
 * Students will understand the connection between the real world and poetry.

 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): Begin work on research project due in a couple of weeks. *See above link.

<span style="color: #155b15; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Choose a poet-can be the same one selected for research project. Create a comic strip which can be humorous but does not have to be based off an anecdote from the poet's life or an interesting fact about him/her. See example at the bottom of this page.

<span style="color: #155b15; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Technology used: tumblr, shelfari, toondoo.com, awesomehighlighter, onetruemedia.com

<span style="color: #155b15; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way: <span style="color: #155b15; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> Students will be able to take a closer look at poets' individual lives and illustrate their learning in comic form. The research project tools change learning by using extant technology to assist students in critical online reading and presentation skills. The digital story in onetruemedia introduces a famous poet in a very unique way from a specific perspective to show students the concept of entering a writer's environment to learn who they were or are.

<span style="color: #155b15; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Resources/materials needed:

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