MINI LESSON SUMMARIZE POEMS — 5TH GRADE

CONNECTION

• WE HAVE LEARNED HOW TO ANALYZE TEXT TO DETERMINE THEMES OR LIFE LESSONS.

• WE HAVE ALSO LEARNED HOW TO ANALYZE THE STRUCTURE OF TEXTS TO DETERMINE HOW THE STRUCTURE LEADS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A THEME AND WE HAVE COMPARED AUTHORS’ APPROACHES TO SIMILAR THEMES ACROSS TEXTS AND GENRES.

• TODAY WE WILL LEARN HOW TO ANNOTATE AND SUMMARIZE POETRY.

TEACHING• WHEN READING A POEM IT IS IMPORTANT TO READ THE POEM

CLOSELY.• IN ORDER TO DO THAT YOU MUST READ THE POEM SEVERAL TIMES. • THE FIRST TIME YOU READ THE POEM IT IS FOR ENJOYMENT.• THE SECOND TIME IS TO IDENTIFY AND INTERPRET FIGURATIVE

LANGUAGE USING ANNOTATIONS. • THE THIRD TIME IS TO UNDERSTAND THE TONE AND MOOD OF THE

POEM. • AFTER READING THE POEM THREE TIMES, YOU ARE THEN ABLE TO

SUMMARIZE THE POEM.

• LET’S BEGIN WITH THE POEM THE ECHOING GREEN BY WILLIAM BLAKE.• I WILL READ THE POEM ALOUD THE FIRST TIME FOR ENJOYMENT.• THE SECOND TIME WE READ THE POEM I WANT YOU STOP ME WHEN YOU

HEAR FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE. • THE THIRD TIME WE READ THE POEM WE ARE GOING TO DETERMINE THE

TONE AND MOOD OF THE POEM.

“The Echoing Green” by William BlakeThe sun does arise,And make happy the skies; The merry bells ringTo welcome the Spring;The skylark and thrush,The birds of the bush,Sing louder aroundTo the bells’ cheerful sound;While our sports shall be seenOn the echoing green. Old John, with white hair,Does laugh away care,Sitting under the oak,Among the old folk.They laugh at our play,And soon they all say,‘Such, such were the joysWhen we all - girls and boys-In our youth-time were seenOn the echoing green.’

Summarizing Each Stanza Stanza 1________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ 

Stanza 2________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________  

Till the little ones weary,No more can be merry:The sun does descend,And our sports have an end.Round the laps of their mothersMany sisters and brothers,Like birds in their nest,Are ready for rest,And sport no more seenOn the darkening green.

Stanza 3  ________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ 

• NOW THAT WE HAVE READ THE POEM THREE TIMES WE ARE ABLE TO LOOK AT THE ANNOTATIONS AND SUMMARIZE THE POEM. • WHEN WE SUMMARIZE A TEXT MAKES SURE TO USE YOUR OWN

LANGUAGE TO DESCRIBE THE MAIN IDEA OF EACH STANZA. • LET’S USE THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SHEET TO SUMMARIZE THE

MAIN IDEA OF EACH STANZA.

“The Echoing Green” by William BlakeThe sun does arise,And make happy the skies; The merry bells ringTo welcome the Spring;The skylark and thrush,The birds of the bush,Sing louder aroundTo the bells’ cheerful sound;While our sports shall be seenOn the echoing green. Old John, with white hair,Does laugh away care,Sitting under the oak,Among the old folk.They laugh at our play,And soon they all say,‘Such, such were the joysWhen we all - girls and boys-In our youth-time were seenOn the echoing green.’

Summarizing Each Stanza  Stanza 1Spring is a cheerful time of year. The sky is bright, birds are cheerfully singing, and people can play sports outside.

Stanza 2The elderly people enjoy watching kids play and remembering the joys of the time when they also played on the green.

Till the little ones weary,No more can be merry:The sun does descend,And our sports have an end.Round the laps of their mothersMany sisters and brothers,Like birds in their nest,Are ready for rest,And sport no more seenOn the darkening green.

Stanza 3   The sun is setting; kids are tired from playing outside all day. Everyone is ready for bed.

GUIDED PRACTICE

• YOU WILL WORK ON AN INDEPENDENT PRACTICE SHEET. • YOU WILL WORK WITH A PARTNER TO READ A POEM THREE TIMES, IDENTIFY

THE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE, AND THEN SUMMARIZE EACH STANZA.

Suspenseby

Pat Mora 

Wind chases itself Around our house, flattens wild grasses with one hot breath. Clouds boil purple and gray, roll and roil. Scorpions dart under stones. 

Summarize    

Rabbit eyes peer From the shelter of mesquite. Thorny silence. My paisano, the road runner paces, dashes into the rumble, races from the plink, plink splatter into his shadow, leaps at the crash flash splash, sky rivers rushing into arroyos and Thirsty roots of prickly pears, greening cactus.

Summarize