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Distance Learning Spring Poetry Writing Activity | Print and Digital

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Mrs B's Brainy Bunch
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Grade Levels
6th - 8th
Resource Type
Standards
Formats Included
  • PDF
Pages
10 pages
Mrs B's Brainy Bunch
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Description

UPDATED: Your middle school students will identify personification in an assortment of spring poems and be able to identify its effect on the reader. This easy-to-implement 3 day lesson plan will have the students writing an original short story as an object of their choosing. Included is a grading rubric that focuses on voice, word choice, and organization. Now offered in a print and digital version if you want to assign the lessons electronically.

This Product Includes:

  • The Big Picture question, Essential Questions and CCSS
  • Notes to the Teacher detailing what to do on each of the 3 days of the mini-unit, as well as 3 "Do Now" questions for the start of each class
  • Personification worksheet with 3 Spring Poems and a place to practice their own examples of personification
  • Creative Writing directions where the students write AS an object of their choice
  • Peer-Grading Rubric
  • Final Grading Rubric
  • Decorated Stationary for students to write their final poems
  • a PDF PRINT & GO version with links to an EDITABLE version and a DIGITAL version

For more on Figurative Language, try my activity on Metaphors:

Making Metaphors

And my follow-up activity on Writing a Spring Poem:

Spring Poem

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Robin Behringer

Total Pages
10 pages
Answer Key
Rubric only
Teaching Duration
3 days
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Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

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