This document provides instructions for students to analyze the narrative poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It assigns roles for students to work together to create a plot chart summarizing the key events of the poem. They will then choose a scene from the poem to paint and explain how their painting conveys the mood and their interpretation of the selected event.

1. Tuesday, March 26
I can read a narrative poem to
retell the parts of plot.

2. “Charge of the Light Brigade”
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Read Meet the Author: How
did this poet become a Lord?
1)Video Trailor: Before Reading
http://my.hrw.com/la_2010/na_lit/nsmedia/powernotes_portal/Grad
2)Follow along and read:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaKzps4O1aU

3. Level Up: Narrative Poetryhttp://my.hrw.com/la_2010/na_lit/student/levelup/lit245/shell.html
Information Gatherer: Read aloud the poem
Time Keeper: Keep everyone on task. Your group must be finished in 13
minutes
Recorder: Fill in a plot chart for your group on your own paper
Reporter: Write 1 of plot events on the board LATER ON
ALL : Help the recorder write the correct answers!
Create a plot chart filling in the following events for “The
Charge of the Light Brigade”
Conflict: What kind
and explain it
Event3
Event2
Event1
Resolution to the
conflict – Explain
how the conflict was
solved in your own
words.

4. Reporter: Write the part of plot that Mrs.
Young assigns to you on the plot line.
Make sure you copy of the final plot chart from the board! It is #9 in Poetry Packet!

5. Wednesday, March 27
I can discuss the mood of a media
image and its effect on its
audience.

6. Imagine you are an artist that wants to
paint a scene from “The Charge of the
Light Brigade” using paint and canvas.
What part of the plot in this narrative poem
would you paint? Why?
What mood would you try to portray in that
scene? What evidence from the text did you
use to come up with the mood?
Spend the next class period creating it.

7. Your painting is now hanging in the school
hallway. Students are standing in front of your
painting observing and thinking about it. They
ask you to explain why you painted the scene
the way you did. What will you tell them?What will you tell them?
Think about:
Why you chose certain colors?
What mood were you trying to create? Why?
What you felt while creating it?
What you wanted your audience to feel when they
looked at it?
Why you chose that part of the plot over others?
What would you write as a caption for your painting?
Why?
Be ready to share!

8. “The Charge of the Light Brigade” from military-history.org
On the back of your “painting”, use your plot
chart to retell the plot of “The Charge of the
Light Brigade” using text-talk.
Write the translation underneath:
c u l8er m8
see you later mate