Ekphrastic Poem Writing Activity
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    • Write Your Own Ekphrastic Poem
    • Preview of Write Your Own Ekphrastic Poem - SubjectToClimate - SML.pdf
      Subject English Language Arts • Social Emotional Learning
      Grade Level Grades 6-8
      Resource Type Lesson Plan
      Standards Alignment
      State-specific
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      Access Lesson Plan Here: Write Your Own Ekphrastic Poem

      This lesson features powerful imagery from the climate crisis. Students choose one photograph and write an ekphrastic poem about that photograph. 

      Step 1 - Inquire: Teacher facilitates a brief discussion using a photograph of the California wildfires in 2020.

      Step 2 - Investigate: Students review photographs related to the climate crisis from Climate Visuals Gallery. Students select one photograph and write an ekphrastic poem about that photograph.

      Step 3 - Inspire: Students share their poems with the rest of the class.

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      February 12, 2023
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      By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
      Read More About CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.8.10
      By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
      Read More About CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.10
      Compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version, analyzing the effects of techniques unique to each medium (e.g., lighting, sound, color, or camera focus and angles in a film).
      Read More About CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.7
      Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning.
      Read More About CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.5
      Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.
      Read More About CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.4
      By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
      Read More About CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.10
      Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they “see” and “hear” when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch.
      Read More About CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.7
      Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
      Read More About CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.8.5
      Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
      Read More About CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.7.5
      Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
      Read More About CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.5

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