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Close Reading of poetry (continued)
48 SpringBoard® English Language Arts Grade 8
Second Reading: vocabulary in Context
After reading the poem to yourself, listen and follow along as the poem is read aloud. Again, circle any additional words or images that you don’t know or that you think are important to understanding the poem.
Check your Understanding
1. Pair with another student to share your circled words and discuss their
meanings. Using these words and the underlined and bolded vocabulary from the poem, discuss how learning the vocabulary affects your understanding of the entire poem. Choose two or three of the words you have examined that you think are significant to understanding the poem. Use the words in a sentence or two that explain why these words contribute to your understanding.
2. With a small group of your peers, plan and rehearse a choral reading of the poem by following these steps:
• Separate the poem into sense units by drawing a slash mark after any end
punctuation (periods, question marks, exclamation points).
• Divide up the sense units so that at least one person is speaking each one,
and have each person highlight the lines to be spoken out loud.
• Decide how you will perform the lines to emphasize tone and meaning;
for example, you may choose to emphasize lines by having more than one speaker read at the same time, or you may want to vary your loudness, rate of speech, and/or tone of voice.
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