Concrete Poetry Lauren Banks Amanda Walker ECED 4300 A Fall 2008 Dr. Tonja Root Grades 4 Banks, L....

Concrete Poetry

Lauren BanksAmanda WalkerECED 4300 A

Fall 2008Dr. Tonja Root

Grades 4

Banks, L. and Walker, A. ECED 4300 A 11/10/2008

PrewritingBy: Lauren Banks

ELA4W4. The student consistently uses a writing process to develop, revise, and evaluate writing. The student

a. Plans and drafts independently and resourcefully.


GPSELA4W4. The student

consistently uses a writing process to develop, revise, and evaluate writing. The student


PLOThe students will construct a concrete poem using a graphic organizer.


Concrete Poems

A concrete poem is a collage of words, letters or symbols that creates meaning both by what it says and by how it looks.


Prewriting

Prewriting is the first stage of the writing process. The focus of this stage is on developing a topic and ideas for the writing. All of the ideas are written to be written in phrases.


Concrete Writing Example

Delamar, G.T. (2008) . Flight of Geese. Retrieved November 11, 2008, from Patchwork Poems and Shaped Poetics

http://www.delamar.org/gtshaped.htm




ExampleFlight of Geese

} } } } when } } cold winds } } start to blow } } the geese form flocks } } and begin to fly forth } } } } } } } } } } following their leader } } through chilly skies } } and moving southward } } away from } } north } } } }


Practice Activity

Students will work as a class to orally decide their topic, audience, and the details for the poem that they will be writing as a class.

The teacher will write dictations of the responses that the students give her to write on a large graphic organizer.


Name____________________ Date _________

Form: Concrete Poetry

Audience:

Topic:

Shape/ Object:

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.


Prewriting Assessment

Students will work independently to brainstorm ideas for a concrete poem by picking an audience, topic, and details and use this information to complete a graphic organizer


DraftingBy: Amanda Walker

ELA4W4. The student consistently uses a writing process to develop, revise, and evaluate writing. The student



Primary Learning Outcome

Students will draft a concrete poem using their graphic organizer.


Concrete Poetry

Concrete poems are those that are in the shape of what they are talking about. Concrete poetry is very visual because the words form a picture. The poem can outline the object, or fill in the object.


Drafting

Drafting is the second stage of the writing process. This is when we put our words and phrases from our graphic organizer down on paper into sentences in an organized manner. We don’t worry about spelling or mechanics.


Example 1

Miss Annie. (2007). The Rollercoaster. Retrieved November 10, 2008 from Evanston Arts Poetry Camp, Summer 2008!http://search.msn.com/images/results.aspx?q=concrete+poem&FORM=MSNH&mkt=en-US#focal=063c779bd6aae1c0ec6f72845a11172b&furl=http%3A%2F%2Fbp3.blogger.com%2F_3HgsPE9Oeoc%2FRoQ9yrLn7DI%2FAAAAAAAAACA%2FdZPtzQKDOwk%2Fs320%2FAnnieRollercoastersmall.jpg


Rollercoaster


Example 2

Kinney, D. (2007). The Colors of Light. Retrieved November 10, 2008 from Poetry Project Culminating Activity For Reactions Unithttp://search.msn.com/images/results.aspx?q=concrete+poetry&form=QBIR#focal=602ca1e6da01766d678f8a8089b23eb3&furl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.swsd.k12.pa.us%2F%257Ediane_kinney%2FCHEMISTRY%2520POETRY%2520DESCRIPTION1_files%2Fimage009.jpg


The Colors of Light


Practice Activity

As a class, students will create a draft using the topic they chose during prewriting. Students will use the shared pen technique to complete the concrete poem draft on the board..


Assessment Activity

Using the independent graphic organizers students completed, they will create a draft of their concrete poem. Students will construct their draft in the shape of the object they are talking about.


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