Knowledge and Skills Statement
Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts.
Demonstrated Proficiency of ELA.3.9.B
Working in small groups, students should read a poem and identify the use of rhyme, sound devices, and structural elements. Have each group pose and answer questions about specific features. Assist groups that are struggling to generate questions by posing questions such as the following:
- What is the rhyme pattern in the poem?
- Do you think the rhyme scheme serves a purpose? What might the purpose be?
- Would the poem be less effective if it did not have a rhyme pattern?
- How do the words (e.g. whistling wind, shining like a diamond) add to the poem?
- Why might the stanzas be grouped together?
- Why is the poem written in two stanzas instead of one?
Further Explanation
This assessment example requires students to understand characteristics specific to poetry, identify those characteristics in a poem, and consider their usage.