Course title: Reading Poetry (Grade -9)

Unit 8: Poetry Approximate Unit Length (in weeks) – 3 weeks

Stage 1: Desired Results
Unit Description (brief):

Poems
Read aloud individually.
Written meaning in paragraph. Analyze the sonnets. Illustrate the pome.
 Rainfall in Thin Gyan Festival
 You, little wave
 Study Everyday like making a string of flowers
 Our country

Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) for Unit:

Effective Communicator
 The students pay attention to the lesson and what the teacher explaining about.
 The students understand the importance of learning about poems.

Responsible Global Citizens

Value and honor the role of family in society.
Demonstrate care and concern for the environment and community

Healthy Individuals

 Participate in leisure and fitness activities for balanced and healthy lifestyle
 Support the health and safety of self and others
 Demonstrate a robust sense of physical and emotional happiness

Standards for Unit: >Common Core, SHAPE, AERO, NGSS, etc.<

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.2
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard Myanmar capitalization, punctuation, and
spelling when writing.

Knowledge of Language

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.3
Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.4
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on
grade (9) reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Spelling
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.9-10.2.c
Spell correctly.

Enduring Unit Understandings Essential Unit Questions

What will students understand (about what big What arguable, recurring, and thought-
ideas) as a result of the unit? “Students will provoking questions will guide inquiry and
understand that…” point toward the big ideas of the unit?

 How have literature inspired

 Extend their imagination individual and society?
 Enjoy and Understand Poetic Lyric
 Analyze the sonnets

Content Knowledge Content Skills

What knowledge relates to the content standards and What skills relates to the content standards
big ideas on which the unit is focused? and big ideas on which the unit is focused?

 Recognize Myanmar Traditional aspects of poem  Written meaning in paragraph

and enjoy them.  Illustration of poem with short
 Extend their imagination writing note.
 Enjoy and Understand Poetic Lyric  Use Myanmar vocabulary to
 Analyze the sonnets summarize the poem.
 paraphrase the poem
 Stage 2: Assessment Evidence

What evidence will be collected to determine whether or not the understandings have been
developed, the knowledge and skill attained, and the standards met? [Anchor the work in
performance tasks that involve application, supplemented as needed by prompted work, quizzes,
observations, etc.]
Performance Task Summary Quizzes/Tests

 Construct their own sentences by using the  Spelling Dictation

vocabularies from the text.  Sentence Construction
 Answer the Questions.
 Illustration of poem with short writing note.  Written meaning in paragraph
(poem)

Other Evidence, Summarized Self-Assessments

 Self – Assessments
 Peer editing \ checking  Speaking by using new words
 Group checking
 Whole class checking

Stage 3: Learning Activities

Stage 3
Week: 1&2. Student will read aloud individually. Summarize the pome in paragraph and illustrate
the poem.

Week :3. New vocabulary illustration and Sentence construction.

Resources

YA school text book

Myanmar government text book (2014-2015)