In this lesson, students continue to build their poetry analysis skills. They analyze poetry individually and with a partner or small group. The How to Read a Poem anchor chart guides their analysis and provides structure for their thinking and conversations.
Students work with a complex poem today—“slave ships” by Lucille Clifton. Be sure to give students ownership of this intellectual challenge by not guiding discussion too much. Instead, allow them to rely on the How to Read a Poem anchor chart to guide their thinking.
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These resources, developed by the New York State Education Department, provide standard-level scaffolding suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs) to help them meet grade-level demands. Each resource contains scaffolds at multiple levels of language acquisition and describes the linguistic demands of the standards to help ELA teachers as well as ESL/bilingual teachers scaffold content for their English learning students.