Interactive Notebook: Change, Peace of Wild Things, Compare and Contrast Poetry

Arm your students with valuable compare and contrast skills for song lyrics and poetry! Teach poetic terms included used in state assessment tests using an interactive notebook. Students will compare and contrast content, language, tone, structure and theme to prepare them for the short answer response questions on end-of-the-semester tests.

Compare and contrast Christina Aguilera’s “Change” and “The Peace of Wild Things.”

Compare and contrast Kate Perry’s “Rise” and Warsan Shire’s poem “what they did yesterday afternoon”.

Christina Aguillera’s “Change” (song lyrics)

“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry (poem)

Kate Perry’s “Rise” (song lyrics)

“what they did yesterday afternoon” by Warsan Shire (poem)

Students will also take an 8 question short answer response quiz comparing and contrasting the two artists.

Slides take students through instructions and a detailed example of comparing and contrasting. All compare/contrast documents are included in the powerpoint. The exit pass is in slide format and included as a printable page in Word docx or PDF format.

Poetic terms are also included in slides and there is an interactive notebook for students to create to document their definitions of the terms.

Poetic terms include:

alliteration

foreshadowing

hyperbole

irony

metaphor

onomatopoeia

personification

repetition

simile

symbol

oxymoron

free verse

The poetry lesson could be one 90 minute class period or shorter periods of time over three days.

Lesson includes:

Powerpoint presentation in pings

Google slides and pdf

Interactive Notebook pages for poetry terms

Hyperlinks for videos

Class directions for comparing and contrasting in Word docx or PDF format (Answer sheet included in Word docx and PDF format.)

8 question student short answer response quiz for comparing and contrasting in Word docx and PDF format

Slide presentation about poetry terms and an interactive notebook

Example song lyrics in Word docx or PDF format

Example poem in Word docx or PDF format

Exit Pass in Word docx or PDF format or may be used as a projection slide.

This lesson has been successful in my English 10 classroom for many years and is often listed in the "Ten Things You Must Continue To Do Next Year" survey at the end of the year.