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Prose Poetry Peer-Editing Activity

Activity

Prose Poetry Peer-Editing Activity

Grade Levels

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

Course, Subject

English Language Arts
Related Academic Standards
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Description

This activity can be used in conjunction with the Prose Poetry Writing Model: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" Activity, Prose Poetry Brainstorming Activity, and the Prose Poetry Writing Activity.

After reading the model poem The Wind, a brief discussion should ensue that focuses on the rhythm, rhyme, use of stanzas, literary elements and repetition as they are similar to Poe’s ‘The Raven’ This discussion could lead into the Prose Poetry Brainstorming Activity and the Prose Poetry Writing Activity .

Peer-Editing Directions

In a classroom setting, students could exchange double-spaced rough drafts with a group member and/or a partner. If preferred or for a home setting, self-editing could also be modified from the directions below. Read the rough draft once. Follow the preceding carefully.

On (partner's) rough draft, the editor should indicate the following as described below.

 

  • Underline two or three impressive ideas.
  • Make a wavy line under two or three ideas that are not completely clear.
  • Circle two or three ideas that could be described more vividly.
  • Box two vocabulary words taken from the poems.
  • Put an asterisk next to an idea that could be told more explicitly to add depth to the story.
  • Place parentheses around any part of the story that uses a literary device (possibilities listed below) AND write what literary device was used in the space below it.
    • onomatopoeia
    • assonance
    • repetition
    • symbolism
    • internal rhyme
    • alliteration

After completing the editing activity, write a final draft. In a classroom setting, students could be given two grades; one for content and one for grammar/mechanics.

Essential Question


How can writers apply the technique, style, and language of a 19th century writer?

Duration

20 minutes or less

Assessment

Students will follow a model to brainstorm, as a small group, ideas that will commence the writing process. This brainstorm will then be applied to a guided writing assignment of a prose poem. The rough draft will be peer edited for content. The final copy will be typed and read aloud to the class. All work can be given a double grade: one for content and one for mechanics
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