AP Essential Questions Unit 1
Based on Collegeboard Requirements:
Based on Collegeboard Requirements:
Poetry Unit Final Test Study Guide:
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As per the Georgia Standards, students must be able to do the following:
Learning Objectives:
- Identify and respond to sound devices, figurative language, subject matter, and structure of poems.
- Sort and classify poems based on forms, subject, and structure.
Georgia Standards:
ELA9RL1.a: Reading comprehension/Poetry. Student identifies and responds to the effects of subject matter (topic and theme), sounds devices (e.g. alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme scheme), figurative language (personification, metaphor, simile, hyperbole), and structure (e.g. fixed/free form, rhymed/.unrhymed, etc.)
ELA9RL1.b.: Student will sort and classify poems by specified criteria (fixed/free form, rhymed/unrhymed, narrative/lyric and/or universal theme/topic
Essential Question:
How can identifying evidence of diction (word choice), syntax (sentence structure), imagery, point of view, and symbolism help students to understand the deeper meanings of poems?
How do we differentiate poetic forms?
What is the different between poetry and prose?
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elizabeth.jamison@cobbk12.org OR jamiso_t@bellsouth.net
9th Lit Syllabus:
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Essential Question(s):
Unit: How does the literature of this period reflect and shape society?
Lessons:
• How does the poetry of Dickinson and Whitman transition to modern American poetry?
• How do the poetic and individual styles of Dickinson and Whitman differ?
Weekly Essential Questions:
How would you describe your writing process?
Why do we require students use a “format” for scholarly writing?
How does the writing style of the colonial period reflect the history/culture of that time?