Poetry and Tableau

This product includes a complete 3-5 day lesson plan to incorporate the fine arts into your poetry unit.

Students will practice finding figurative language, summarizing, close reading, annotating, repeated readings to build fluency, think critically, answer text dependent questions with evidence from a text, analyze complex poems, and create visual representations of stanzas through tableau drama.

In addition, students will find rhyme scheme, analyze metaphors, use context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words, and draw a picture that represents imagery used in a famous poem.

Students love to learn about and create a type of performing art called Tableau. Tableau is a type of drama where individuals create still life images that represent a story. Tableau is like creating a still life photograph.

Included in this product is:
Directions
Notes on Tableau
Rubric and Student Check List
The Road Not Taken poem by Robert Frost
Close Reading Directions for The Road Not Taken
Complete Answer Key & Poem Annotation Guide
O Captain! My Captain! Poem by Walt Whitman
Close Reading Directions for O Captain! My Captain!
Complete Answer Key & Poem Annotation Guide
Brother and Sister poem by Lewis Carroll
Close Reading Directions for Brother and Sister
Complete Answer Key & Poem Annotation Guide

Created by Illuminating Literature