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Painting poetry: Using visual representation as a response to literature

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A lesson plan for grade 7 English Language Arts

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In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students are encouraged to think critically about what a poet is trying to say and the means he or she uses to convey these ideas. Interpreting a poem using visual representation helps students better understand their own beliefs about a poem. As students create visual art and then write interpretations of the completed pieces, they enter into a relationship with the poem and construct meaningful connections by integrating personal experience, language, writing, reading, and creativity. This resource includes links to related websites.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 7

  • Goal 1: The learner will use language to express individual perspectives in response to personal, social, cultural, and historical issues.
    • Objective 1.03: Interact in group settings by:
      • responding appropriately to comments and questions.
      • offering personal opinions confidently without dominating.
      • giving appropriate reasons that support opinions.
      • soliciting and respecting another person's opinion.
    • Objective 1.04: Reflect on learning experiences by:
      • analyzing personal learning growth and changes in perspective.
      • examining changes in self throughout the learning process.
      • determining how personal circumstances and background shape interaction with text.
  • Goal 5: The learner will respond to various literary genres using interpretive and evaluative processes.
    • Objective 5.02: Study the characteristics of literary genres (fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry) through:
      • reading a variety of literature and other text (e.g., mysteries, novels, science fiction, historical documents, newspapers, skits, lyric poems).
      • analyzing what effect genre specific characteristics have on the meaning of the work.
      • analyzing how the author's choice and use of a genre shapes the meaning of the literary work.
      • analyzing what impact literary elements have on the meaning of the text such as the influence of setting on the problem and its resolution.