Brief Description

We will complete a unit on writing various types of poetry in my language arts class. The emphasis of the unit is on the Word Choice component of Six Traits of writing. Each student will post one of his or her poems on my La Cima web page. He/she will then choose another student’s poem on the web page to rate using the Six Traits Word Choice rubric which we will have practiced using in class.

Standards and Frameworks

Technology Standards

• 4T-E2. Use technology tools for individual and collaborative writing, communication and publishing activities to create curricular related products for audiences inside and outside the classroom

• W-E1. Use correct spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar and usage, along with varied sentence structure and paragraph organization, to complete

effectively a variety of writing tasks

Academic

• Students will be able to use the Six Traits Word Choice rubric to evaluate a peer’s poem, giving specifics in their critiques and identifying specific reasons for their ratings.

• Students will be able to type their poems onto my web page under the Class Poetry link.
• Students will be able to access my web page and use the Class Poetry link to pick a poem and rate it.

• Keyboarding
• Typing in URLs
• Navigating a web page

• poem to enter onto the Class Poetry link
• computer set up in webedit (for students to type in their poems) or another HTML editor
• computer for accessing my web page      http://www.amphi.com/teachers/pnewton/

• Students needing extra time to type their poems (due to poem length or lack of keyboarding skills) will be able to use seminar time to finish.
• Students who have difficulty reading the poem they have chosen to evaluate will ask the poet to read it to them.
• All SEI and Special Ed. students are pulled out of my language arts class so no accommodations are necessary for them.
• Gifted students are challenged during the poetry unit with advanced poem forms. They will also be given the opportunity to create their own web pages containing their poems.

• Students will write their poems during language arts class.
• They will choose their best poem to publish on the teacher’s web page, one that shows an understanding of effective word choice.
• One of the computers in the room (the most visible to the teacher) will be set up on the teacher’s web page through webedit.
• One at a time, students will go up to the computer and type in their poems. The teacher will teach the first person how to do it. He/she will then be the student who helps the next students who come up.
• When all of the poems are entered, students will go to the computer, one at a time, to access the web page, access the Class Poetry link, choose a poem, and use the Six Traits rubric for Word Choice to evaluate a peer’s poem (making sure to give specific feedback). The rubric (attached) will be the same as the one we use in class.

• Each student will have entered a poem that they feel demonstrates their effective use of word choice.
• Each student will be able to access the Class Poetry link to find a poem.
• Each student will be able to use the rubric to evaluate a poem, giving a copy to the poet and a copy to me.