Grade Level: 4

Focus and Review:
 Review what we did last class about poetry and the different forms of poetry. Introduce poetry in retrospects to music. Music is a wonderful medium to helping students appreciates poetry and poetic devices.

Statement of Objectives:
 By the end of the lesson the students will be able to have a better understanding of poetry and the effects it has on music. The students will be able to recognize certain poetic devices and write about them in a cordial manner.

Materials:
 1 made tape with 1-minute snippets from different genres of music (country, rap,     R&B, reggae, alternative, etc…)

Teacher Input:
Vocabulary:
Poem- A rhythmic expression of feelings or ideas, often using metaphor, meter and rhyme.

Poet- A writer of poetry.

Poetry- A literary expression in which language is used in a concentrated blend of sound and imagery to create an emotional response; essentially rhythmic, it is usually metrical and frequently structured in stanzas.

Rhyme- In the specific sense, a type of echoing which utilizes a correspondence of sound in the final accented vowels and all that follows of two or more words, but the preceding consonant sounds must differ, as in the words, bear and care. In a poetic sense, however, rhyme refers to a close similarity of sound as well as an exact correspondence; it includes the agreement of vowel sounds in assonance and the repetition of consonant sounds in consonance and alliteration. Usually, but not always, rhymes occur at the ends of lines.

Rhythm- An essential of all poetry, the regular or progressive pattern of recurrent accents in the flow of a poem as determined by the arses and theses of the metrical feet, i.e., the rise and fall of stress. The measure of rhythmic quantity is the meter.

Satire- A literary work which exposes and ridicules human vices or folly. Historically perceived as tending toward didacticism, it is usually intended as a moral criticism directed against the injustice of social wrongs. It may be written with witty jocularity or with anger and bitterness.

Imagery- the elements in a literary work used to evoke mental images, not only of the visual sense, but of sensation and emotion as well. While most commonly used in reference to figurative language, imagery is a variable term which can apply to any and all components of a poem that evoke sensory experience, whether figurative or literal, and also applies to the concrete things so imaged.

Stanza- A division of a poem made by arranging the lines into units separated by a space, usually of a corresponding number of lines and a recurrent pattern of meter and rhyme. A poem with such divisions is described as having a stanzaic form, but not all verse is divided in stanzas

- Talk about the different forms of poetry- couplet, duplet, ABAB form, haiku, etc…
- Mention famous poets such as Robert Frost, Rudyard Kipling, T.S Elliot, Edgar Allen Poe,

Guided Practice:
1. Ask students to brainstorm the following questions:
-What do music and poetry have in common?
-Do you think music is poetry? Why?

2. Tell students that they will listen to several different types of music and to have an open mind. Explain to your students that music, like poetry can be a window to the mind and that it is a wonderful form of expression.

3.   Play each 1-minute piece of music (pause after each selection).
-Students will write what they thought of the piece, did it remind them of   anyone or thing.
 -Do this for all selections (Do between 8-10).

4. When finished, discuss the songs and what the students wrote down. Have the student’s circle one song as their favorite and tell you why.

Independent Practice:
 Have the students write their own poem. Use ABAB form and relate it to Easter somehow.
 Example: I saw the Easter bunny
      He was coming to my house
      He was looking pretty funny
      Dressed up like a mouse?

Closure:
 Poetry helps you see a connection between their world and the world of poetry.
1) What are some forms of poetry?
2) What does music have in common with poetry?
3) Can you see poetry in music?

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