This lesson plan involves students selecting a poem and creating a Google Slides presentation to demonstrate their understanding of the poem's themes. Over four class periods, students will analyze poems, design their presentations incorporating images and sounds, and finally present their poem and slideshow to the class. The lesson is intended for an honors 9th grade English class and aims to develop students' skills in literary analysis, multimedia presentation design, and oral communication through a poetry slam activity.

1. Poetry
slam:
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Multimedia
Lesson Plan

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Introduction
Make your next poetry reading an event they won't forget. Students
select a poem and then enhance the poem and add their own
interpretation of it with art, photos, sound, quotes, questions, and
more that demonstrate an understanding of the poem's themes.
Grade: 9
Content Area: English
Lesson Length: 320 minutes (4 class
periods)

3. Analyze
Learners
General Characteristics: This lesson is designed 9th to 12th
grade students, but will be used in an Honors English 9th grade
class. The class has a population of 19 students, with 11
females and 8 males. The students all display exceptional
enthusiasm and understanding of the subject area in general.
Most of the students come from average, working-class family
backgrounds. Lessons need to be tailored to challenge them, as
they grow bored easily when they aren’t.

4. Analyze
Learners
Entry Competencies: Students should have mastered the ability to
analyze the structure of poems and be able to draw conclusions to
what the key themes and ideas of a poem are.
Students should also have a firm grasp on the use of Google Slides
presentation.
Students must also be familiar with researching credible sources on
the Internet and citing online media correctly.

5. Analyze
Learners
Learning Styles: About 60% of students are mostly
kinesthetic learners, 25% are visual, and 15% are
auditory. They prefer activities that involve technology and
group work.

6. objectives
This lesson is designed to meet Common Core Career & College
Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading, Grades 9-10 Standards for
Reading Literature, and ISTE Standards for Students. The standards
covered in this lesson plan are as follows:
Objective 1: Students will be able to demonstrate thorough
understanding of themes, literary devices and strategies taught in
previous lessons, by choosing a poem with school-appropriate
language for their presentation.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.2
Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development;
summarize the key supporting details and ideas
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.5
Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and
larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each
other and the whole.

7. objectives
Objective 2: Students will design a Google Slides presentation
incorporating images or sounds (personal or found online) chosen
specifically to demonstrate their knowledge of the themes in their
poem. (Anything included in presentation that is found online or not
their own must be cited properly in the slide show.)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.7
Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats,
including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.1
ITSE-Students.Standard1b
Create original works as means of personal or group expression.
ISTE-Students.Standard5a
Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and
technology.

8. objectives
Objective 3: Students will present their poem along with the
slide show they created, orally to the class on the final day of
the lesson to demonstrate their competence and extent of
their knowledge both about poetry and media use to their
peers.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text,
including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative
impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the
language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or
informal tone).

9. An example presentation
from the teacher will be
given at the start of the
lesson. Students will be
able to given the
opportunity to
collaborate in small
groups, work individually,
and receive direct
assistance from the
teacher during the
development of their
presentations.
SELE
CTMethods Media
& Materials
Students will be
provided with
computers and Internet
access in the
classroom and in the
computer lab. A
projector will be
available for
presentations.
A pre-approved hard
copy list of poems will
be given for
suggestions and
notebooks will be
used while
brainstorming ideas.
Rubric worksheets will
also be provided for
peer-reviews.

10. Preview the materials: The teacher will select poems for the suggested list
and ensure computers to be used in-class are ready for student use.
Projector to be used for demonstration poem must also be checked
beforehand.
Prepare the materials: Before the lesson, the teacher will prepare the
copies of selected poems and rubics for peer evaluation, as well a
demonstration slideshow and poem. Use of a single computer to be
accessible to students for their presentations.
Prepare the environment: Desks will be set up to allow small group work
during the first two days of the lesson. In-class computer stations to be used
for research must also be available for students to complete various tasks in
assignment. The teacher will also ensure use of the computer lab on the
second day for all the students to be able to simultaneously work on their
presentations. For the day of the poetry slam, desks will be rearranged to
face toward the area of the classroom reserved for the projector.
Media, &
Materials

11. Prepare the learners: The teacher will prepare students by reviewing
previous lessons related to poetry and themes of poetry. Objectives of
the lesson and its relation to the project will be presented after the
demonstration is given. Students will have had prior experience in
using Google Slides, but the teacher will provide a quick refresher
lesson if necessary. Handouts for selected poems and rubric for the
presentation will also be given out at this time.
Provide the learning experience: Although students should be well-
versed at interpreting themes and meanings in poetry by this time, the
teacher will be the catalyst in most parts of the lesson by reviewing key
ideas and tips in decoding meaning of words and phrases, followed by
prompting students to generate creative ways in which they present
their chosen poems.
Media, &
Materials

12. Require Learner
Participation
This lesson requires at least four class sessions. On the first day of the lesson, the
teacher will introduce the assignment by going over lessons on reading poetry done
in the past, presenting the demonstration slideshow, and then allowing students to
break up into groups with their handout list of poems. During this time, students will
brainstorm with one another for poem and presentation ideas, while the teacher
monitors and provides instruction to students when needed.
During the second class period of the lesson, students will be in the computer lab
working individually on their slide shows, with the provided access to the Internet.
Questions and revisions will be done at this time by the teacher. All poems should
also be approved at this time.
In the final two classes, presentations will be given. After passing out the peer rubrics
and going over what they should look for in each presentation, the teacher will allow
students to dictate the flow of the Poetry Slam. The teacher will provide students
prompts in how to conduct peer evaluations by giving some time at the end of each
poem so classmates can comment or remark on the presentation they’ve just seen.
Requiring this feedback will help to ensure that every student is getting the undivided
attention of the class. It will also assist them in rating each presentation on the
rubrics provided to them.

13. Evaluate &
Revise
Students will be evaluated in equal parts from their
overall peer-evaluation score and the score given by
the teacher. A question portion in which the class can
open a short discussion with the presenter will enable
the teacher to grade based on the students’
explanations of their way they interpreted their
poems. Time will be allotted on the final day for this--
as well as a class discussion about the activity.
Teacher will allow students to rate their personal
experience orally and give suggestions to what could
have improved their experience with the lesson.

14. Credits &
References
● Lesson Plan by Education World
● Presentation template by SlidesCarnival
● Photographs by Unsplash

15. Thank you!