I also had a list on the board that day of specific devices they could consider with these two poems. The response questions following the chart are designed to prompt students to think about and apply their findings by evaluating their understanding of the two poems and the feelings the poems created in them as readers. While discussing the three questions with the various learning teams, I told them that they could answer them collaboratively or agree to disagree and write individual responses. The students filed this handout in their language arts notebooks following the lesson as a record of work and learning. The instructions were used for the poems that were written in the collaborative teams and then individually for homework.
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Listen to each poem as it is read aloud. In your learning team, study each poem individually and then together. Make a list of the similarities and differences between the two poems. Consider the poetic devices from your list of literary terms. Use the abbreviations BD and FFB for the two lists.