Reading and Writing to Learn about Poets
Description
In this unit, students are introduced to biographies with the text A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, by Jen Bryant. Students are also introduced to biographical timelines and use these as an additional source of information about their poet’s life.
In the second half of this unit, students prepare for the performance task for this module, the Poet’s Performance. In this three-part performance task, students focus on a single poet, presenting a poem by that poet, writing a short essay about the poet, and reading aloud an original poem inspired by their poet.
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