Poems+vs+Lyrics


 * __Compare and Contrast: Poems vs Lyrics__**
 * 1) Pre-step: Analyze the lyrics to your favourite song. Print them out and put the name on your sheet. Then highlight or underline, and label any words, phrases, or lines that:
 * You connect with
 * Stand out as creative, unique, meaningful
 * Are a poetic device that we have studied
 * Are especially good word choices
 * Show the voice of the singer or songwriter

Use it to organize your thoughts and opinions about the differences and similarities between poetry and song lyrics. Complete the entire sheet. Put your name on it.
 * 1) Print out this graphic organizer (venn diagram). []


 * 1) Print out or just read the following excerpts from poems or songs. [] On the print out, or on a sheet of loose leaf titled “Poem or Lyric?” and numbered #1- #6, identify which you think each is.


 * 1) On youtube.com, find the following songs and listen to them. Go back to your last “Poem or Lyric?” sheet and correct your first impressions of which #1-#6 is a song.
 * “Bless the Broken Road” by Rascal Flatts
 * Addicted” by Kelly Clarkson
 * “All these lives” by Daughtry

Do you have any new understandings about the differences and similarities between poems and lyrics? To help you develop ideas for topic choice, use the interactive buttons [] attached to this lesson as idea prompts. You might also want to consider or look back at the Venn Diagram side of your graphic organizer to see what you initially wrote that poems contain and that songs contain. Finally, you can simply analyze or use a similar topic to your stated favourite song and favourite poem. The entire lesson plan is here: [] The entire student instructions for this lesson plan are here: [] Hand in as a package with your name on each sheet: **1.** Your favourite song, highlighted and analyzed; **2**. the complete venn diagram sheet comparing poems to lyrics; **3**. your answers, corrected for the 6 samples; **4.** the graphic organizer where you copied your favourite song, and favourite poem, and mimicked the writer’s style with your own beneath it.
 * 1) Do the same with the following poems
 * “Mad Girl’s Love Song” by Sylvia Plath
 * “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost
 * i carry my heart with me” by E.E. Cummings
 * 1) Look at the following student models where students of various grade levels combined excerpts from songs combined with poems. [] Pay special attention to their word choices.
 * 2) Now complete this graphic organizer to help you mimic your favourite song and your favourite poem. [] First, you must decide which is your favourite song and then favourite poem. You need to copy that information down in the top boxes. Next, you need to mimic your choices in the bottom boxes. As you compose, remember that you must pay close attention to the concept of word choice and thus your own personal word choices, as well as your idea development. Consider why the author/song writer wrote the piece and why you want to write about the topic you have chosen.