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Activity 2: Final Assignment

Revision of Poetry Lesson

By: Samantha Draper

Thank you!

1c. Materials:

  • Tone & Voice presentation
  • Electronic copies of "My Papa's Waltz"

and "We Wear the Mask"

  • Paper copies of annotation chart
  • iPads

1d. Activities

1. Brainstorm a class list of tone words and examples of how to make them more specific

2. Take notes on Tone & Voice power point

3. Analyze a poem in small groups

4. Analyze a poem individually

5. Write a paragraph that answers the essential question “How can a poet’s voice and tone make a poem intense, unique, and memorable?"

5. Potential Challenges

4. Rationale for

Transformation

1b. Learning Objectives:

1. Students will understand tone and voice

2. Students will identify tone and voice and analyze the effect of a poem in small groups

3. Students will identify tone and voice and analyze the effect of a poem individually

1. Voice Thread

2. QuickTime Player

1. Maintaining a sense of community and respect among my students in their blogs

3. WordPress

1e. Knowledge Assessment:

Summative assessments

1. Reviewed and graded students'

paragraphs that directly answered the

essential question.

Formative assessments

1. Listened and participated in students' conversations about the first poem in small groups

2. Reviewed and graded students’ annotation chart for the second poem

2. Convincing my PLC that teaching our

students to command multimodal texts is

important

3. Teaching my PLC how to use Voice Thread

3. Description of Transformation

6. References

Karchmer-Klein, R. (2013). Best practices in using technology

to support 21st writing. In S. Graham, C. MacArthur, & J.

Fitzgerald (Eds.), Best Practices in Writing (pp. 309-333).

New York: Guilford.

1. Change the delivery of the content

Walsh, M. (2004). Reading visual multimodal texts:

how is 'reading' different? Conference

Proceedings of the ALEA 2004 Conference).

2. Change the summative assessment to

make it multimodal

1a. Essential Question:

How can a poet’s voice and tone

make a poem intense, unique,

and memorable?

3. Extend the summative assessment

into a blog post

Table of Contents

2. Rationale for Change

Tone & Voice= Elements of Style

Multimodal texts offer more style choices

1. Description of Existing Lesson

2. Rationale for Change

3. Description of Transformation

4. Rationale for Transformation

5. Potential Challenges

6. Resources

More practice with multimodality

Multimodality allows for collaboration!

Multimodal texts reach More types of learners

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