help with a lesson plan by, 03-18-2008 at 04:44 PM (2410 Views)
I'm currently planning a lesson to do with 4th-6th graders as
part of a practicum in my Education program at university. I was
hoping to select a poem that is very descritive to read to the
kids as they draw what they see through the words. My initial
idea was to use Coleridge's "Kubla Kahn," but I've since decided
that this will probably be too difficult a poem for 4th-6th
graders (based on experience I've had with 'em). I'm looking for
something that won't be too easy, preferably something with
metaphors so that I may seque to brief instruction on those. I
want to make the activity somewhat challenging, and one of my
ideas is to mandate that I will only read the poem perhaps three
times and they must come to agreement on when those three
repetitions can be used.