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Acrostic Poetry

Grade Levels

10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade

Course, Subject

History, English Language Arts, Reading and Writing in History and Social Studies
Related Academic Standards
CC.1.3.11-12.F CC.1.3.11-12.F
Evaluate how words and phrases shape meaning and tone in texts.
CC.1.4.6.C CC.1.4.6.C
Develop and analyze the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples; include graphics and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
CC.1.4.6.E CC.1.4.6.E
Write with an awareness of the stylistic aspects of composition. • Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic. • Use sentences of varying lengths and complexities • Develop and maintain a consistent voice • Establish and maintain a formal style
CC.1.4.6.T CC.1.4.6.T
With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
CC.1.4.7.C CC.1.4.7.C
Develop and analyze the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples; include graphics and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
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  • Big Ideas
    Comprehension requires and enhances critical thinking and is constructed through the intentional interaction between reader and text
    Effective speaking and listening are essential for productive communication.
    Information to gain or expand knowledge can be acquired through a variety of sources.
    Purpose, topic and audience guide types of writing
    Writing is a means of documenting thinking
    Writing is a recursive process that conveys ideas, thoughts and feelings
    Characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations impact culture, economic interdependence, settlement patterns, and control of the Earth’s surface.
    Citizens understand their rights and practice their responsibilities in a vibrant society.
    Engaged citizens understand the workings of government and use historic precedents in shaping thought and action.
    Geographic representations are essential to explain the spatial organization of people, places, and environments.
    Geography is used to explain the past, interpret the present, and plan for the future.
    Places and regions have physical and human characteristics, and one’s culture and experiences may influence perception of place.
    The history of the United States continues to influence its citizens, and has impacted the rest of the world.
    An expanded vocabulary enhances one’s ability to express ideas and information.
    Audience and purpose influence the writer’s choice of organizational pattern, language, and literacy techniques.
    Critical thinkers actively and skillfully interpret, analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information.
    Critical thinkers effectively and skillfully interpret, analyze, evaluate and synthesize information.
    Effective speakers prepare and communicate messages to address the audience and purpose
  • Concepts
    Acquiring and applying a robust vocabulary assists in constructing meaning
    Focus, content, organization, style, and conventions work together to impact writing quality
    Informational sources have unique purposes.
    Organization of information facilitates meaning.
    Purpose, context and audience influence the content and delivery in speaking situations
    Writing improves through the recursive process of revising and editing
    Biography is a historical construct used to reveal positive and/or negative influences an individual can have on the United States society.
    Cultural changes influence people's perceptions of places and regions.
    Demographic characteristics of populations influence migration streams over time.
    Demographic trends, including spatial distribution, size, and density, stimulate patterns of population distribution and movement.
    Documents and principles define the procedures, operations and rules for the functioning of government and society.
    Human activity, including cultural conflicts and forces of cultural convergence, has an effect on the human characteristics of place and region.
    Patterns of physical features and spatial patterns of human features change over time.
    Spatial patterns of political units, including role of political alliances and the impact of political conflicts, fashion the division and control of the Earth’s surface.
    Technology reshapes spatial processes of cultural convergence and divergence.
    Textual evidence, material artifacts, the built environment, and historic sites are central to understanding United States history.
    The rights and civil liberties granted by the Constitutions of the United States and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are to be safeguarded by both governments and citizens.
    The spatial distribution of economic activities are reshaping businesses and effecting changes and movements in factors of production.
    United States history can offer an individual discerning judgment in public and personal life, supply examples for living, and thinking about one’s self in the dimensions of time and space.
    United States history can offer an individual judicious understanding about one’s self in the dimensions of time and space.
    Characteristics of effective writing work together to impact quality
    Content for Writing
    Production and Distribution of Writing
    Purpose, Audience and Task
    Response to Literature
    Vocabulary
    Writing Style
  • Competencies
    Analyze connections between and among words based on meaning, content, and context to distinguish nuances or connotations
    Analyze the context of literal, figurative, and idiomatic vocabulary to clarify meaning
    Apply the writing process to develop a piece of work. (i.e. pre-write, draft, revise, edit and publish)Revise writing by: • examining how the questions of purpose, audience, and genre have been addressed• examining and improving style, word choice, sentence variety and subtlety of meaning
    Apply the writing process to develop a piece of work. (i.e. pre-write, draft, revise, edit and publish)Revise writing by: • improving the organization• refining the central idea and supporting details• examining the level of detail, style, and tone and word choice
    Apply the writing process to develop a piece of work. (i.e. pre-write, draft, revise, edit and publish)Revise writing by: • rethinking the logic of organization• recheck and refine the central idea, paragraph development, and content• examining the level of detail, style, and tone and word choice
    Apply the writing process to develop a piece of work. (i.e. pre-write, draft, revise, edit and publish)Revise writing by: • rethinking the logic of organization• refining the central idea and content details• examining the level of detail, style, and tone and word choice
    Apply the writing process to develop a piece of work.(i.e. pre-write, draft, revise, edit and publish)Revise writing by: • examining how the questions of purpose, audience, and genre have been addressed• examining and improving style, word choice, sentence variety and subtlety of meaning
    Articulate connections between and among words based on meaning, content, and context to distinguish nuances or connotations
    Deliver effective oral presentations by o establishing a clear and concise focus or thesis o selecting and using appropriate structures, content and language to present ideas that support the thesis o utilizing appropriate technology or media to reinforce the message o employing effective delivery techniques: volume, pace eye contact, emphasis, gestures, enunciation o monitoring the response of the audience and adjusting delivery accordingly
    Develop complete paragraphs that have details and information specific to the topic and relevant to a well-defined focus
    Develop substantial, relevant and illustrative content that demonstrates a clear understanding of the purpose (content).
    Develop substantive content that is fully explained and well-supported with details, facts, research, examples and is appropriate for the topic (content)
    Develop topic-specific content that effectively and fully explains and supports the work by using details, facts, research, and/or examples (content)
    Develop topic-specific content that is explained and supported with details and examples appropriate to audience and mode using precise vocabulary. (content)
    Differentiate between primary and secondary source material.
    Evaluate the context of literal, figurative, and idiomatic vocabulary to clarify meaning
    Follow the conventional style for the type of document and use page formats, fonts and spacing that contribute to the readability and impact of the document.
    Identify characteristics of primary and secondary source materials.
    Incorporate an expansive and expressive vocabulary that includes terms specific to the topic
    Informational Writing: Develop substantial, relevant and illustrative content that demonstrates a clear understanding of the purpose (content).
    Informational Writing: Use proper conventions to compose in the standard form of the English language (conventions).
    Locate and select appropriate resource materials to achieve a research goal.
    Locate and select the appropriate source materials to achieve a research goal.
    Narrative Writing: Develop substantial, relevant and illustrative content that demonstrates a clear understanding of the purpose (content).
    Narrative Writing: Use proper conventions to compose in the standard form of the English language (conventions).
    Organize and present information and data that support and illustrate inferences and conclusions drawn from research.
    Organize and present information drawn from research.
    Persuasive Writing: Develop substantial, relevant and illustrative content that demonstrates a clear understanding of the purpose (content).
    Persuasive Writing: Use proper conventions to compose in the standard form of the English language (conventions).
    Summarize relevant information from source material to achieve a research goal.
    Synthesize relevant information from source materials to achieve a research goal.
    Use an effective format that is relevant to audience and task.
    Use connections between and among words based on meaning, content, and context to distinguish nuances or connotations
    Use grade appropriate conventions of written language when writing and editing. (i.e. correct spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar and sentence formation) (conventions)
    Use organizational patterns that support key ideas and are appropriate to format and purpose. (organization)
    Use precise vocabulary when developing writing
    Use proper conventions to compose in the standard form of the English language (conventions).
    Use socially and academically appropriate language and content
    Use socially and academically appropriate writing conventions in a variety of formal and informal communication.
    Use strong verbs and nouns, concrete details, and sensory language to make meaning clear to the reader
    Write a series of paragraphs with details and information relevant to the focus.
    Write a series of paragraphs with topic sentences and supporting details that are relevant to the focus.
    Write with a sharp, distinct focus (e.g. sharp controlling point), identifying topic, purpose and audience (focus)
    Focus, content, organization, style, and conventions work together to impact writing quality
    Analyze a primary source for accuracy and bias and connect it to a time and place in United States history.
    Analyze changes in how rights and responsibilities are interpreted.
    Analyze how perception and self-interests play a role in conflict over territory and resources.
    Analyze how the communications and transportation technologies, that contribute to cultural convergences, may also stimulate cultural divergence.
    Construct a biography of an American and generate conclusions regarding his/her qualities and limitations.
    Describe how social, cultural, and economic processes shape the features of places.
    Evaluate the impact of population numbers and patterns, including human migration, on physical and human systems.
    Explain why places have specific physical and human characteristics in different parts of the world that impact economic activity.
    Participate in citizenship simulations such as mock trials, campaigns, and elections.
    Participate in student government.
    Synthesize a rationale for the study of individuals in United States history.
    Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.
    Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research, applying grade level reading standards for literature and literary non-fiction.
    Evaluate how words and phrases shape meaning and tone in texts.
    Informational: Develop and analyze the topic with relevant, well-chosen, and sufficient facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to the audience’s knowledge of the topic; include graphics and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. Argumentative: Distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims; develop claim(s) fairly, supplying evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both in a manner that anticipates the audience’s knowledge level and concerns. Narrative: Use narrative techniques such as dialogue, description, reflection, multiple plot lines, and pacing, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters; use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, settings, and/or characters.
    Informational: Develop and analyze the topic thoroughly by selecting the most significant and relevant facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to the audience’s knowledge of the topic; include graphics and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. Argumentative: Distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims; develop claim(s) and counterclaims fairly and thoroughly, supplying the most relevant evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both in a manner that anticipates the audience’s knowledge level, concerns, values, and possible biases. Narrative: Use narrative techniques such as dialogue, description, reflection, multiple plot lines, and pacing, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters; use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, settings, and/or characters.
    Informational: Develop and analyze the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples; include graphics and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. Argumentative: Acknowledge alternate or opposing claims and support claim with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic. Narrative: Use narrative techniques such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters; use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events.
    Informational: Develop and analyze the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples; include graphics and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. Opinion: Use clear reasons and relevant evidence to support claims, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic. Narrative: Use narrative techniques such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters; use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
    Informational: Develop and analyze the topic with relevant, well-chosen facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples; include graphics and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. Argumentative: Acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims and support claim with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic. Narrative: Use narrative techniques such as dialogue, description, reflection, and pacing, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters; use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events.
    Present claims and findings, sequencing ideas logically and using pertinent descriptions, facts, and details to accentuate main ideas or themes; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
    With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
    With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.
    Write with an awareness of the stylistic aspects of composition.

Description

In this oral history based lesson, students create an acrostic poem based on a selected Medal of Honor recipient.

Web-based Resource

https://themedalofhonor.com/lessons/d05-acrostic-poetry/

The above link will direct you to the home page of the Congressional Medal of Honor Character Development Program.  Once you have created a free account and have logged on, you will automatically be redirected to the appropriate lesson.

Content Provider

The Medal of Honor Character Development Program: Lessons of Personal Bravery and Self-Sacrifice is a resource designed by teachers for the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation to provide students with opportunities to explore the important concepts of courage, sacrifice, patriotism, integrity, and citizenship and how these values can be exemplified in daily life.

 

The program was designed to be used for a variety of educational purposes by teachers in any school system in middle and high school. The primary goal is to prompt students to think of others before themselves and to make these good choices every day.

To learn more about the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation: www.cmohs.org  

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