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Basketball for Better Verse

Subjects

  • Language Arts

Grade

  • 3-5
  • 6-8
  • 9-12

 



Brief Description

Students write poems about basketball.

Objectives

Students practice writing poetry.

Keywords

poetry, basketball

Materials Needed
Gather poems about basketball, including the following:

Defending Walt Whitman
Above the Rim
My Poem About Basketball
The Ex-Basketball Player
Basketball Poems

Lesson Plan

  • Have students read, or read aloud to students, a selection of poems about basketball.
  • Discuss the imagery and emotions in the poems.
  • Ask students to help create a list of basketball terms.
  • Brainstorm with students a list of words describing the sport of basketball or describing their feelings when watching or playing the game.
  • Ask students to write poems about basketball.

Assessment

Evaluate students on the form of their poems and the appropriateness of the content.

Lesson Plan Source

Education World

Submitted By

Linda Starr

National Standards

Language Arts:
  NL-ENG.K-12.4
  NL-ENG.K-12.5
  NL-ENG.K-12.6
  NL-ENG.K-12.12
 

Updated 3/06/2012


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