This has worked well in providing some scaffolding for the kiddos when it comes to poetry analysis--an assignment walks students through the analysis of a poem of their choice. Granted, we're using the term "analysis" somewhat loosely. We are not ripping a poem to shreds and trying to piece if back together again. We're very slowly walking through the process of analyzing figurative language and evaluating the effect of poetic devices on a piece of text. Oh, and we throw in a little reader response in there at the end to round things out a bit :)
Please excuse my tacky screen shots. I STILL don't know how to convert a word document to a picture file that I can upload...
I do like how this assignment allows us to take our time walking through some Common Core standards (analyzing the effect of word choice in literature) while learning the process step-by-step. It's a start, at least.
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