Sub Lesson Plans for Ten Poetry Analysis Sessions

Never worry about preparing a substitute plan again! This comprehensive collection of concise poem analysis lessons provides teachers with all the necessary resources for 10 substitute-led class sessions. Simply print out the readily available sub note along with the lesson handouts, which also include a helpful rubric, and you're all set. Both your substitute teacher and students will easily manage the rest! What's even better is that your students will have the opportunity to enhance their analysis and essay writing skills even in your absence!

Here's how simple this sub plan series is to present: Simply print out and sign the included sub plan note, make copies of one of the 10 poetry analysis worksheets included in this resource, and leave them on your desk for your substitute. Students can work through the analysis questions in one class period and complete the analysis essay in the next (or simply forego the essay). Either way, you have a perfect 1-to-2 day lesson that requires almost no direct instruction! While student familiarity with the poetry concept is helpful, the handouts directions will be more than enough information to get your students working diligently while you're away.

Each of the 10 included lessons contain the following:

• - A prepared sub plan note with teacher instructors

• - An annotation and discussion activity based around a literary concept and classic poem (see list below)

• - A clear lesson flow chart attached to the lesson hand-out

• - An engaging analysis essay prompt that builds on the annotation and discussion activities surrounding each included poem

• - A self-and-peer-review checklist activity

• - Clear and organized analysis essay writing tips that will succinctly function as learning guides for when you leave your class in the hands of a substitute (or when you just need a day's break from direct instruction)

• - A Common Core Standards-based grading rubric (Tied to 4 ELA standards)

POEMS & CONCEPTS INCLUDED IN RESOURCE:

Apostrophe: "Break Break Break," by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Rhyme: “How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways,” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Symbolism: “A Noiseless Patient Spider,” by Walt Whitman

Theme: “One Dignity Delays for All,” by Emily Dickinson

Consonance: “The Road Not Taken,” by Robert Frost

Blank Verse: “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day,” by William Shakespeare

Ambiguity: “The Walk,” by Thomas Hardy

Repetition: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” by Langston Hughes

Elegy: "To an Athlete Dying Young," by A. E. Housman

Metaphor: “We Wear the Mask,” by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Although this resource can be fitted for any secondary Language Arts classroom, it has been carefully designed to work best in grades 9, 10, 11, and 12. The included rubrics are subtly but specifically tied to Common Core ELA Standards for Writing (4 and 5) and Language (1 and 2). This resource is provided in print-ready, bookmarked, and adjustable PDF files.

This resource contains 32 Pages.