Paul Revere's Ride Lesson Plan

Reading "Paul Revere's Ride": How to Start?

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

Students will reflect upon the nature of poetry and discuss some of the elements of how poetry is read.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.5.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.5.4 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.5.6 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.2 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.3 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.4 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.5 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.6 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.9 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.10

Structure:

To start this activity, the teacher should ask students the following open question: what is poetry? After taking a number of answers...