Free Lesson Plan (Part 2) for Joyful Noise
This is the second part of a series of FREE lesson plans, with downloadable audio available for a limited time, for 1989 Newbery Medal winner Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman. Lesson Plans are by Hillary Wolfe, librarian at Northview High School in Covina, California, and are based in ideas from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Listen to or download (for a limited time) the audio clips below and download the corresponding lesson plan (in pdf format). Leave comments for other teachers on your additions or modifications to the lesson plan—we want to share your ideas with educators around the country!
LESSON 2 – Objective: Students will identify poetic and literary devices such as descriptive verbs, alliteration, and metaphors and similes; students will articulate how these poetic devices influence the meaning of the poem.
Joyful Noise – Lesson 2 – Lesson Plans
Joyful Noise – Lesson 2 – Student Worksheets
Joyful Noise audio – Fireflies
Joyful Noise audio – Moth’s Serenade – Water Boatmen – The Digger Wasp
Joyful Noise audio – Cicadas – Honeybees – Whirligig Beetles
Listen online: Fireflies (for this week’s activity)
[audio http://www.recordedbooks.com/audio/Joyful-Noise-fireflies.mp3]
Listen online: Moth’s Serenade – Water Boatmen – Digger Wasp
[audio http://www.recordedbooks.com/audio/Joyful-Noise-3.mp3]
Listen online: Cicadas – Honeybees – Whirligig Beetles
[audio http://www.recordedbooks.com/audio/Joyful-Noise-4.mp3]
Stay tuned to the blog for Lesson 3 and more audio from Joyful Noise. Lessons 3 and 4, as well as audio for the rest of the poems in Joyful Noise, will be posted later in May.
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May 12th, 2008 at 9:04 am
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May 14th, 2008 at 11:32 am
I love being able to hear the clips. I teach for TWU’s library school (all online) and this will allow me to clearly demonstrate how to use the book for choral readings. Thanks!
April 16th, 2009 at 11:24 am
[...] downloadable audiobook! Lesson Plans 1: Identify how form influences function. Lesson Plans 2: Descriptive Verbs, Alliteration, Metaphors and Similes Lesson Plans 3: Point of View Lesson Plans 4: Meter, Rhythm, and Tempo If You’re Not Here, [...]
April 6th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
[...] downloadable audiobook! Lesson Plans 1: Identify how form influences function. Lesson Plans 2: Descriptive Verbs, Alliteration, Metaphors and Similes Lesson Plans 3: Point of View Lesson Plans 4: Meter, Rhythm, and Tempo If You’re Not Here, [...]