Selected Poems of Joy Harjo - Music Center

Model Lesson Three – Theatre: The Found Poem
Grades 2 – 5
Materials: photocopies of Found Poem, paper and pencils, large sheets of paper (1 per group), scissors, tape, Teacher & Student Assessment Portfolios.
Enduring Understanding: As we explore our connection to Nature and to other people, we can gain understanding of our shared values and universal human heritage.
Essential Questions Related to Lessons and Unit: Why do most stories have a Beginning, Middle and End?
Big Idea for Lesson: Creativity is the ability to connect apparently unrelated ideas.
SUMMARY
Lesson Three Outcomes Creative Task & Criteria Assessment Strategies
Students will be able to:
Create and perform a Found Poem with a clear
beginning-middle-end.
(AP, CE, AV, CRA)
Teacher will:
Teach the lesson effectively.
Assess student learning outcomes.
Document, collect and label the evidence of student
learning from this lesson.
Assessing Prior Knowledge
What is a Found Poem?
CREATE & PERFORM – Becoming an Expert
Task: Create a Found Poem using “Remember” and
other poems by Native American poets.
Criteria
The Found Poem must have:
Selections from “Remember” and other Native
American poems.
A Beginning that starts with an idea or image.
A Middle that adds another idea or image that is
different from the first idea or image.
An Ending that blends the two ideas or images
together or has one idea/image that is stronger than
the other.
Music Center Anchor Work Model Curriculum Unit: Selected Poems of Joy Harjo.
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Teacher:
Uses video to document poetry.
Labels with appropriate student task or outcome.
Notes how the class has progressed in their
teamwork efforts since Model Lesson One.
o Any re-teaching or practice needed.
o Teamwork skills.
Uses rubric for Model Lesson Three at the end of
the lesson.
Student Prompts & Questions:
In their journals:
Describe how their team worked together when
they created their Found Poem.
Write about how their team created the beginning,
middle and end in their Found Poem.
Enduring Understanding:
“Beginning, Middle and End” is found in many
forms in our lives and worlds. List three to five.
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