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 Blake
The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies;
The merry bells ring
To welcome the Spring;
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around
To the bells’ cheerful sound;
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing green.
Summarizing Each Stanza
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 joys
When we all - girls and boysIn our youth-time were seen
On the echoing green.’
Stanza 2
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Stanza 1
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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 mothers
Many sisters and brothers,
Like birds in their nest,
Are ready for rest,
And sport no more seen
On the darkening green.
Stanza 3
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• 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 Blake
The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies;
The merry bells ring
To welcome the Spring;
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around
To the bells’ cheerful sound;
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing green.
Summarizing Each Stanza
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 joys
When we all - girls and boysIn our youth-time were seen
On the echoing green.’
Stanza 2
The elderly people enjoy watching kids play and
remembering the joys of the time when they also
played on the green.
Stanza 1
Spring is a cheerful time of year. The sky is bright,
birds are cheerfully singing, and people can play
sports outside.
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 mothers
Many sisters and brothers,
Like birds in their nest,
Are ready for rest,
And sport no more seen
On 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
• READ IT THREE TIMES
• IDENTIFY THE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
• SUMMARIZE EACH STANZA
Suspense
by
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