This poetry unit plan is for a 10th grade English class consisting of 18 students from diverse racial backgrounds. Over the course of a week, students will learn about different types of poetry, poets, and how to analyze poetic devices. On day one, students will learn about poetry types and write in a certain style. Day two focuses on different poets and reading their work. On day three, students will analyze imagery in poems and create art representing it. Day four involves finding poems online and summarizing them in social media formats. Finally, students will perform poems in groups and provide peer feedback through an online class blog. The plan utilizes technology like video, Photoshop, and online resources to engage students with poetry.

1. Poetry Unit Plan
By: Chelsea Miller

2. Students Being Taught
• 10th grade students in a regular Ed. English class
• 18 students total, 50% white, 25% African American, and 25%
Asian Americans, and 4 students were in resource English in
9th grade.

3. Main Objective
• Students will understand/summarize the meaning of a poem,
rhyme scheme, different poets, and imagery by reading
poems, writing poems, drawing pictures, and discussing
different poets, by working in groups, through social media
devices, and “acting out” a poem, with 100% accuracy, by the
end of a five day week.

4. Breakdown
• Monday: Types of Poetry, students will look at different types of poems by
watching a video of me talking about them and write a certain type of
poem.
• Tuesday: Look at different poets. Watch my movie maker video about some
different poets. We will read some of the poets poems and have a class
discussion on who/what was there favorite. Students will be rewarded
points when they participate in discussion.
• Wednesday: Students will look at different poems with strong imagery and
make a picture using Photoshop that students think the poet is trying to get
across.
• Thursday: Students will find poems using a WebQuest. They will pick out
different literary devices. Next, they will then read choose poem and
summarize it in the form of a tweet, text message, and Facebook post.
• Friday: Students will get in groups and pick a poem that we have discussed
earlier in the week and act it out. To ensure the rest of the class is paying
attention, they will take on the role of a critic and give constructive criticism
on the other groups performance. They will upload their criticisms to a class
blog and discuss the mock performances.

5. Technology
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Projector
Printer
Paper
Movie Maker

6. Works Cited
• www.google.com
• www.poetryfoundation.org