I. Curricular Framework

Concept:

Journeys

Essential Question:

How are the Romantic Poets including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, etc. related to modern day envir

Bridge:

Environmental Awareness

Content:

Romantic Poets

Outcomes:

II. Standards Aligned

III. Instruction and Assessment

1. Connect: Connecting to the Concept Experientially

Objective: To discover personal connections to favorite places.

Activity: 1) Students bring to class for display a photograph or drawing of a favorite place. 2) Write short dialogue taking persona of grandparent talking to grandchild about this place.

Assessment: Individual involvement/participation.

2. Attend: Attending to the Connection

Objective: To see future possibilities in our environment.

Activity: 1) Share dialogue. 2) Discuss probability or possibility of such dialogue--will your future place be there for your grandchild?

Assessment: Involvement/responses.

Assessment, Phase One, Level of Engagement, Fascination:

3. Image: Creating a Mental Picture

Objective: To discover our own aesthetic stake in our environment.

Activity: 1) View Our Living Planet video. 2) While watching, note places you would like to visit and show your grandchild.

Assessment: Attentiveness/response/involvement.

Assessment, Phase Two, Seeing the Big Picture:

4. Inform: Receiving Facts & Knowledge

Objective: To learn about the romantic poets, time period, ideas, and attitude toward nature.

Activity: 1) Read: Wordsworth's "My Heart Leaps Upon" or "The World Is Too Much With Us;" Coleridge's "Rime of Ancient Mariner," Byron's "Apostrophe to the Ocean," Shelly's "Ode to the West Wind," "To a Skylark," Keat's "Ode to a Nightingale," "Bright Star," and "I Would I Were." 2) Lecture: Life and Times of Romantic Poets.

Assessment: Teacher checking for understanding; students' level of involvement in discussion.

Assessment, Phase Three, Success with Acquiring Knowledge:

5. Practice: Developing Skills

Objective: To provide practice in reading, understanding, analyzing poetry of the Romantics.

Activity: Prepare poetry study collection of Romantic poets. Small groups will prepare study guide for assigned Romantic poem.

Assessment: Quality of worksheet, activities in poetry study collection.

Assessment, Phase Four, Success with Acquiring Skills:

6. Extend: Extending Learning to the Outside World

Objective: To apply own understanding relationship between Man and Nature.

Activity: Choose an activity: 1) Write a poem(s) to immortalize your favorite place. 2) Write a narrative about an experience in your favorite place. 3) If your place is endangered, research this danger and take some action to save it--write a letter, attend a meeting, etc. 4) Design a children's picture book about your place.

Assessment:

7. Refine: Refining the Extension

Objective: To evaluate effectiveness of selected activity.

Activity: 1) As a class, establish criteria for evaluation of activities. 2) Compare own project to criteria and make adjustment.

Assessment: Degree of application of evaluation criteria to own project.

8. Perform: Creative Manifestation of Material Learned

Objective: To celebrate your own understanding of Romantic attitude toward nature.

Activity: 1) Go out under a tree, to the park, etc. to share your work. 2) Have a picnic and read favorite romantic poems as well.

Assessment: Quality of project as effective communication of idea.

Assessment, Phase Five,Performance, Creative Use of Material Learned: