ACTIVITIES WORKSHEET
Grade
Level - 2
Course
– English
Week
Taught (2-35) - 28
State Standard: * Types of writing. Write poems, plays, and multi-paragraph stories.
St. Marys Standard: * 1.4.2A Using the proper methods, students will be able to write various short stories, poems or plays.
Essential Question: What makes a successful short story, play or poem? What are the techniques used in writing effective short stories, poems or plays?
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how to define literary elements, literary devices and dialog. |
employ literary elements, literary devices and dialog as they apply. |
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how to describe and/or illustrate people, places and things. |
describe and/or illustrate people, places and things. |
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1. Paper/Pencil:** In the poem, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, which words rhyme?
Answer:** star-are
high-sky
2. Performance Question: Write a 4-line poem in which the last words in lines 1&2 and 3&4 rhyme.
Assessment Tool:** Teacher corrected.
Activity: Students will write an acryptic poem about a classmate. Each student will list the letters of his or her partner’s name vertically on a sheet of paper. Students will then use each letter to write special or friendly qualities about their partners. Students will then share their acryptic poems with one another, then display their work in the classroom.
Duration: 20 minutes
Resources for this activity: pencils, markers, paper
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Code: 1.4.2A Date Developed: 2-10-03
Teacher Assigned: Laurie Taylor Date Approved: 06/03