Technology Lesson Plan

 

Name: Laurie Fowler

School: Technology in Motion

 

Title of Activity: Literary Lingo 

Class or Grade Level:    11th Grade           

Subject: English

Time Allotment: 180 minutes

 

Objectives:  The student will:

Use an online source to look up literary terms.

Record the definitions of each literary term.

Write a literary analysis of a poem using the literary terms.

Cite the sources correctly.

                  

Materials/ Resources:

Copies of poems from an anthology

 

Internet Resources:

Alabama Virtual Library—http://www.avl.lib.al.us

          Literature Resource Center

The American Academy of Poets http://www.poets.org/poems/search.cfm

Citation Machine http://www.landmark-project.com/citation_machine/cm.php

 

Alabama State Course of Study Standards:

Technology Course of Study 9-12

13.) Interpret copyright laws and policies with regard to ownership and use of information.

17.) Cite electronic sources properly.

23.) Apply appropriate techniques for producing word processing documents.

34.) Use appropriate on-line resources for research.

35.) Apply appropriate techniques for information retrieval.

36.) Identify useful information from a search.

Language Arts Grade 11

4.) Recognize masterful use of language.

5.) Read selections by American authors and secondary sources by literary critics (1900 to the present).

6.) Evaluate effectiveness of literary devices in poetry and prose.

10.) Compare content and literary form among several selections of anthologized literature and among selected student writings.

11.) Apply critical reading and viewing skills to analysis of print and non-print media.

23.) Demonstrate proficiency in using available

technology  for expression and learning.

 

Procedures:

1.       Give students Literary Lingo Terms page.

2.       Have them go to the AVL to the Literature Resource Center and use the Encyclopedia of Literature to look up the words on the list.

3.       Then have the students use their definitions to analyze a poem from American literature.  Some suggested examples: Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, Langston Hughes’ “Let America Be America Again”, Carl Sandburg’s “Chicago”, T.S. Eliot’s “Wasteland”

You can find these poems online or in a literature book.

4.       Students should look for additional information from other literary critiques at AVL databases such as:

                   Contemporary Authors

                   Scribner’s Writer Series

                   Twayne’s Author Series          

5.       Students should write a literary analysis of their poem which includes definitions from their list and information from the other sources. 

6.       Students should use Citation Machine to create a Works Cited page for their references.

7.       Students should then word process their papers and turn them in to the teacher.

 

Assessment:

Project based checklist from http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/view.php3?id=81243

 

Appendix:

none

 

Ó 2003 Laurie Fowler