Jenna Komarin
Shared Reading: Something Told The Wild Geese by Rachel Field
Lesson Date: 10.25.11
Source: Text Savvy Shared Reading Cycle
PURPOSE: Day Two: Locating oneself in the text
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: Students will be asked to notice specific words and images that give meaning to the poem as well as start to identify some of the poem’s ‘big ideas.’
STANDARDS: R–5–14.2 Reading from a wide range of genres/kinds of text and a variety of authors (e.g., literary, informational, and practical texts) (Local) R–5–14.3 Reading multiple texts for depth of understanding an author, subject, theme, or genre (Local) R–5–4.5 Identifying literary devices as appropriate to genre: rhyme, alliteration, simile, dialogue, imagery, or simple metaphors (Local) R–5–16.1 Comparing stories or other texts to related personal experience, prior knowledge, or to other books (Local) R–5–16.2 Providing relevant details to support the conclusions made (Local)
Lesson component / What the teacher says ….Connection:
1 minute / Yesterday we started to preview this poem. We noticed a number of important qualities that poems have…including rhyming words, capitalization of the first word of every line, one big stanza instead of separate smaller stanzas, etc. Today we will work find specific words and images that we notice, and we’ll also consider what the author is trying to tell us through this poem—what are the ‘big ideas’ of the poem?
Teaching and Active Engagement:
-use document camera and have them come to the rug with pencils
8 minutes / Let’s do an echo read of the poem. I want you to follow along with your eyes as you go. Repeat after me…
Q: What are some specific words and images that you like? I want you to underline words or images that you think are meaningful and be prepared to share with the group after everyone has a chance to look it over.
Q: What are some ‘big ideas’ that this poem might be dealing with?
Closure:
1 minute / As good readers we’re spending time looking carefully at the words, images, and themes that we start to see in the poem. This will help us to really dig into the ‘big ideas’ tomorrow.
Something Told the Wild Geese
Something told the wild geese
It was time to go.
Though the fields lay golden
Something whispered, --“Snow.”
Leaves were green and stirring,
Berries luster-glossed,
But beneath warm feathers
Something cautioned, --“Frost.”
All the sagging orchards
Steamed with amber spice,
But each wild beast stiffened
At remembered ice.
Something told the wild geese
It was time to fly, --
Summer sun was on their wings,
Winter in their cry.
-Rachel Field