Grade 6-8: Unit Big Picture & Arc of Learning by Katie Hawley

2025-02-10 16:23:23 UTC

Students will have the opportunity to break down a poem and make connections through engaging activities with a poem. Knowledge of poetic structure and the elements of a poem will be discussed through rich classroom discussions that will help students develop their own ideas about each poem.

2025-02-10 16:23:27 UTC

Overall, students gain knowledge and build engagement about the language and elements of poetry through rich classroom discussions and engaging with poetry by Ed. Hirsch. Students will ultimately be able to "try this on" themselves through creative writing assignments.

2025-02-10 16:24:28 UTC

The big picture of this unit so far is sensory and imagery in poems. Students need to make connections between how the author's words create images in their minds.

The tasks build upon each other because students are still required to go back into the text and find evidence that supports their thinking (6.6C) and also understand those plot elements like setting and characters that we're learning about in the Summer of the Mariposas(6.7D).

2025-02-10 16:26:35 UTC

I reviewed the 7th grade internalizations and based off looking at all three lessons I noticed that it focuses on the students learning how to make observations of their own impressions and others impressions based off the understanding of growth and continuing to move in a positive upright direction through figurative language. With poetry it provides a different point of view to be able to create and thing creatively. When students hit a road block they are provided with solutions to their issues.

2025-02-10 16:27:25 UTC

The big picture of this unit is students understanding how to recognize imagery and structure to promote their interpretation of the genre poetry. Students will recognize couplet and stanza. Students will complete tasks that encourage the retention of key vocabulary words, including rhyme and meter. Students will have the opportunity to enhance their approach to poetry using the skill of surveying a poetic text and then making a grade level apropiate predication to the author's intention surrounding mood and tone. The arc of learning is students understanding how language and word form control the pace of a poem.

2025-02-10 16:31:03 UTC

Sensory and imagery is the overall message for this lesson, through this students will have the ability to create mental images, and make personal connections through the author's use of words and what picture they identify with in their mind.

Strong textural evidence will be big in this unit pushing students to go back to the text and defend their answer as it relates to what imagery is being presented.

2025-02-10 16:35:12 UTC

The "Big Picture" of imagery and relationships deep dives into literary devices and the five senses of imagery.

Linking the poem : explores the characterization to engage student to reflect on their personal relationships with family members, and activate prior knowledge invoking buy ins from their own environment.

The unit uses the foundational building blocks of:

Prior knowledge
perspectives
imagery

2025-02-10 19:03:29 UTC

Students need to be able to identify sensory details in poetry and determine what feelings the poet is trying to evoke, why they are trying to evoke those particular feelings, and how/does it change throughout the poem. Additionally, students needs to be able to go into the text and identify evidence that supports their thinking.

2025-02-10 19:06:20 UTC

I believe that the "Big Picture" of this unit is for students to understand that reading poetry, and by extension - writing poetry, is a working process that considers many elements. Beginning with the most surface-level elements leads students to uncovering the deeper meaning by using the skills we have been working on this year (visualization, reading in context, questioning, etc).

2025-02-10 19:06:48 UTC

The big picture is that students should be able to identify sensory and imagery details within a poem, and on top that be able to explain what the details tells us about the character(author) and their life. This will be something we are able to correlate with the Summer of Mariposas since there are multiple moments throughout the text where it mentions sensory details within the sisters journey.

2025-02-10 19:09:08 UTC

Students should be able to identify the feelings/sensory words that show how a character feels and explain that using strong text evidence.

Students are also going to be able to write poems on their comparing and contrasting experiences from other poems to things that they may have experienced in their own lives.

Lastly, students are identifying structure to discuss the author's purpose in creating it in a certain way.

2025-02-10 19:11:22 UTC

The big picture of this unit is for students to have more exposure to the elements of poetry. In addition, this unit emphasizes figurative language and text features.

2025-02-10 19:12:59 UTC

The current unit focuses on character traits, similarities and differences between the characters, and the change the readers see within the characters throughout the journey. Students need to be able to focus on the characters and understand how they are different and what makes them do or say the things within the story. The assessment, specifically the Informative Constructed Response requires students to compare the difference of the narrator (Odilia) from the beginning of the story to the end.

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2025-02-11 19:01:40 UTC

Student needs to be able to identify literary devices in order for good reading comprehension with poems. This will also help students to be exposed to challenging terminologies.

2025-02-11 19:01:49 UTC

The big picture in this unit is using poetry to study character development and see how different tones and usage of words contribute to the overall authors purpose or theme

2025-02-11 19:01:53 UTC

The big picture of "The Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe Garcia McCall revolves around a journey of self-discovery, family, and cultural heritage. The story follows five sisters as they embark on a transformative road trip from Texas to Mexico, where they seek to return a mysterious, magical coin and uncover the truth about their family's past. Along the way, they confront personal challenges, face supernatural events, and grow closer as a family, all while learning important lessons about courage, responsibility, and the power of their cultural identity. The novel blends magical realism with coming of age themes, showing how the sisters’ experiences shape their understanding of themselves and their heritage.

2025-02-11 19:02:43 UTC

The Big Picture of this unit is to lay the foundation for skills needed to be successful on not only IA1 and IA2, but STAAR as well.

2025-02-11 19:02:46 UTC

Upcoming Unit Big Picture

-Sensory Details

-Tracking the narrator's feelings/attitude towards his/her topic

-Identify shifts in the poet's feelings

-A variety of adjectives to help them describe the feelings and/or emotions of the speaker

2025-02-11 19:04:03 UTC

The "Big Picture" of this unit is self awareness. Students get the opportunity to explore the emotions and experiences of the Garza sisters as they navigate through similar changes in their own experiences. Students make inferences based on characterization and identify a big them of change and transformation.

bobbibroils — 2025-02-11 19:05:43 UTC

Students will engage in unpacking the language of poetry. Students should be able to walk aware knowing how to analyze different stanzas.

2025-02-11 19:06:28 UTC

Students are currently focusing on character development through identifying characters traits and actions. Also using text based evidence but also paraphrasing is really important.