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Brief Description
Students build vocabulary skills, teach parts of speech, and have fun with diamond poems!
Objectives
Students
Keywords
adjective, community, diamante, diamond, integrate, interdisciplinary, math, noun, poem, poetry, shape, sports, verb, weather
Materials Needed
colored paper (optional)
Lesson Plan
Diamond poems, also called diamantes, are a fun exercise to include in your poetry unit or do anytime! They can be used to integrate poetry into almost any teaching theme -- for example, students might write weather diamond poems, My Community diamond poems, or favorite sports diamond poems. The diamond poem format could be a tool students use to express feelings about math too -- their love of math or their fear of it.
The diamond poem's format is simple, but it challenges students to expand their vocabulary and learn about the parts of speech. Explain to students that diamond poems are seven-line poems that take on the shape of a diamond because of the way they are created. For purposes of this lesson, the first line and the last line of the poem are the same word:
Example
tornado
forceful, powerful
whipping, churning, whirling
thunderstorm, whirlwind, funnel, cyclone,
destroying, wrecking, killing
violent, uncontrollable
tornado
Lesson Notes:
Assessment
Students should use the correct parts of speech in each line of their poems.
Lesson Plan Source
Education World
Submitted By
Gary Hopkins
Return to the Lesson Planning article, Turn Students Into Well-Versed Poets.
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