Lesson Plan (Cinquain Poem)

Teacher: Ruth Gonzalez Lopez
Theme: Cinquain Poem
Grade Level : Fourth Grade
Concept: Creative writing
Content Standards:

• listening/speaking
  
• reading
  
• writing

Grade Level Expectations: The student writes narrative, descriptive,and persuasive text demonstrating command of Standard English, using research and organizational strategies and the stages of the writing process.

Content Standard #3: Writing

The students communicate effectively to a variety of audiences in all forms of writing through the use of the writing process, proper grammar, and age-appropriate expressive vocabulary.

Strategy: Conceptualization

Thinking skill: Synthesis

Assessment technique: Celebrate the writing process by having the students read their poetry aloud with fluency, rhythm, and expression.

Objectives:

• Write a cinquain poem.
• Understand and identify differents parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
• Understand and use synonyms, and other parts of speech to write cinquain poem.

Materials:

• Worksheets
• Cinquain grafic organizer
• text book
• a writing rubric
• charts
• flash cards

Activities:

Initial

1. Greeting, date, weather, and song.
2. The teacher will review the syllable pattern in each poem with students and the meaning and function of the following terms: noun: names a person, place, or thing. verb: expresses action adjetives: describes a noun or pronoun, and synonym: means the same or almost the same thing as another word.
3. The teacher will discuss how cinquain poetry stresses the use of nouns, verbs, and adjectives in writing. Have students identify different needs of speech in the Father's Day poem and explain their function as follows: ( Father) - noun - describes the topic (active, strong) -adjectives - describe the topic; (fishes, cooks, plays) verbs- express an action. (God's gift to us) - expresses a feeling. -( Alex) refers to the title.

Development Activities

1. The teacher begins to discuss the first step in writing a Cinquain Poem and writes examples of cinquain poetry on the board or hand out a copy of the Cinquain grafic organizer.
2. Have students brainstorm possible topics about which to write. Subjects might include: words from a content area being studied; names of friends, family members and pets; a favorite hobby or any other topic of interest. Encourage students to name topics that can be easily described or that evoke feeling. Record students suggestions on the board.
3. Choose a topic from the generated list that you know students are familiar with and write it on the board.
4. Write line 1 on the board and invite students to name a noun that describes the topic. List suggestions in the Line 1 row. Continue by writing Line 2 on the board and asking students to name nouns that describes the topic. List their suggestions in the Line 2 row. Continue the process through Line 5.
5. Choose example from each row and write a model cinquain poem for the chosen topic on the board.
6. Have students write their own cinquain poem using the same topic. Encourage them to use a dictionary or thesaurus to find synonyms that might be more interesting and concise.
7. Have students write a cinquain poem using the worksheets.

Closing Activities:

1. Students will work in groups to write their cinquain poem.
2. Each group will present their works to the teacher to be corrected.
3. The student will share their work with others and then display Cinquain poems in the classroom bulletin board.

Homework: Have students write a cinquain poem on a topic that is the opposite of the one they have already written. For example, if they choe to write about their father, than have them write about their mother.

Metacognition: What did you learn today?