Group Work: Longfellow

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Group Work Longfellows PoetryEssential
Question What gives life purpose?

1. Notes together as a class on stanza and rhyme
   scheme
2. Reading out loud as a class A Psalm of Life and
   The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
3. Work in groups to interpret, compare, and
   contrast the poems.
4. Work in groups to complete a group quiz on the
   poems.
5. You may not collaborate with someone else
   (besides Mrs. B) on your assignment or quiz

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Psalm and Tide Group Analysis

• Read the poems silently to yourselves.
• Designate one person to read them again, aloud,
  to the group.
• Work in a group to answer the questions about the
  poems in the margins, as well as the following
• Text Analysis Stanza and Rhyme Scheme and
  Reading Strategy Reading Traditional Poetry pg.
  134.
• Assessment Practice pg. 135
• Call Mrs. B over to come check it when you are
  finished

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Psalm and Tide Group Analysis

• After completing the workbook assignments, work
  as a group to complete this giant foldable

The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls by H.W.
Longfellow
A Psalm of Life by H.W. Longfellow

1. Define the rhyme scheme and give an example
   (include one stanza and label it).
2. Mimic the rhyme scheme by writing one original
   poetic stanza as a group which uses the same
   rhyme scheme as poem.
3. Summarize the poem in complete sentences.
4. Explain, in complete sentences, a situation in
   life in which this poem would be applicable.
5. Draw and color a visual representation of the
   MEANING of the poem.

1. Define the rhyme scheme and give an example
   (include one stanza and label it).
2. Mimic the rhyme scheme by writing one original
   poetic stanza as a group which uses the same
   rhyme scheme as poem.
3. Summarize the poem in complete sentences.
4. Explain, in complete sentences, a situation in
   life in which this poem would be applicable.
5. Draw and color a visual representation of the
   MEANING of the poem.

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Psalm and Tide Group Analysis

• Once your group has finished the workbook
  assignments and the giant foldable, take the
  reading quiz on these two poems.
• You may work ONLY with the members of your group,
  but each person must turn in a bubble sheet with
  the multiple choice answers.
• Each person must also complete the short answer
  and extended response questions.
• Take the reading quiz on Devil and Tom Walker as
  a group also (workbook pgs. 108-127.

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HOMEWORK

• Take home a workbook.
• Read from Self Reliance and from Nature pgs.
  136-145.
• Complete all of the exercises on pgs. 143, 144,
  and 145.