Lesson Plan

Sense Poetry Unit

Rationale:
Good writing begins with good observations. This lesson focuses on challenging students to observe something extraordinary in the everyday.


Activities:
In this lesson I will challenge students to not only see something but to smell, feel, taste and hear it. I will bring in a variety of everyday items such as tennis balls, snow globes, milk etc. and ask students to write what they observe.

Students will asked to write everything they can for each of their five senses.

They will then do a free write to think about childhood memories that involved that item.

They will then practice writing the childhood memory poem.