Equality

Equality affects problem solving

Students I'll deliver this topic to:

High school English students

Formal Operational level

I would focus on the students
ZPD in order to help them write
their own poetry

Students have read poetry before
at this age so they would be able to
relate that to this experience of
creating their own poetry.

Boys: teach them to channel their
aggression and feelings into writing poetry.
Girls: teach them to express themselves
through writing poetry.

Students would have be capable
of paying attention during the
lesson at this point in schooling

Other Units

Math

Equations need to
be equal in order to
solve them

Social Studies

Talk about any of the
equality movements in
recent history

Chemistry

Chemical equations need
to be equal in order to solve

Subject I Would Teach

Structure in poetry: equality
in poetic structure helps the
artist portray meaning in a consistent
flow allowing readers to better understand
the message.

Defining Characteristics

Depending on the type of structured
poem, there are different rules

Rules might include:

How many stanzas

Sonnets have one stanza
that is 14 lines long

Meter or rhythm

Sonnets use iambic pentameter

Syllables per line

There is no set number of syllables in
a line for sonnets

Mis-conceptions

Under Generalizing

Anything without
structure
is not poetry
(free verse poetry)

Over Generalizing

Anything with pretty
words is poetry (prose)

Anything with
structure is poetry
(lists)

Non-examples

Explain the difference
between poetry and prose

Show students many different
examples of prose

Free verse poetry

Show students many examples
of free verse poetry

Correlational Features

They could or could not
contain humor

They could or could not be
beautifully written

Diction might also cause
a poem with structure to
seem as if it's not
structured

Poems with structure could or could not
have a rhyme scheme