Classic Poetry and Writing Class for 5th and 6th Grades

If you enjoy poetry, this class is for you!  This English Language Arts class is tailored to use poetry as a jumping off point for analysis, discussion, and then writing.

*Daily Schedule:
Mondays: Meet/revisit the author lesson and discussion
Tuesdays: Read the poem of the week followed by discussion and in depth analysis of the poem (including figurative language, literary devices, author's purpose, poetic format, vocabulary, literary significance)
Wednesdays: Continuation of analysis and begin weekly writing prompt/topic 
Thursdays: Continue the writing process
Fridays: Complete weekly writing, share, and discuss

*If a poem analysis is more in-depth, or if the writing process needs more time/attention, activities may extend into the following week as necessary.  

Each week, following poetry analysis, we will work on writing.  
Examples of writing for the week include:

-Write descriptively about stars or fireflies using figurative language and imagery.

-When in the city, the poet years for the peace he finds in the country.  Write about a place you find peaceful and explain why it brings you peace.

-The world changes around us everyday; reflect on a change that you have observed and write a well written paragraph explaining what changed, why you think it changed (or why it had to change), and express how it makes you feel.

Here are the upcoming poems for the fall semester!

September Poetry:
Fireflies in the Garden by Robert Frost
Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats

October Poetry:
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
To Autumn by John Keats
A Hymn to the Evening by Phillis Wheatley
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
The Empty House by Walter de la Mare

November Poetry:
November Night by Adelaide Crapsey
Fall, leaves, fall by Emily Bronte
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost

December Poetry:
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
When the Frost in on the Punkin by James Whitcomb Riley