Name: Summative Performance Task: Present a Poem Contemplating Romanticism Present a Poem Graphic Organizer Summary This graphic organizer will help you select a Romantic poem, analyze the poem, and organize your ideas into an engaging and effective poem presentation. Topic Present an analysis of an unstudied poem from a Romantic poet in the unit 1. What Romantic topic(s) does the poem explore? 2. What imagery and figurative language does the poet use? Guiding Questions 3. What tone and theme does the poet express? Steps for Presenting a Poem 4. What sound techniques and structure does the poet use? 5. How does the poem compare to the Romantic poems from the unit? Step 1: Select Poem & Identify Topic(s) Step 2: Analyze Imagery & Language Step 3: Analyze Tone & Theme Step 4: Analyze Sound & Structure Step 5: Outline Presentation Step 6: Prepare Presentation Actively Learn from Achieve3000 1 Name: Step 1: Select Poem & Identify Topic(s) 1. Follow your teacher's guidance for where and how to look for a poem. 2. Read poems from several Romantic poets and select your favorite poem. 3. Answer the questions below for your selected poem. Pro Tip: Read the poems aloud. Be sure you like the way your selected poem sounds because you will read it aloud to your peers when you present. Where did you find the poem? What is the title of the poem? Which Romantic poet wrote the poem? When was the poem written? What is the poem about? What do you like most about the poem? Actively Learn from Achieve3000 Answers for Selected Poem 2 Name: What Romantic topic(s) does the poem explore? What additional context is relevant to the poem? Step 2: Analyze Imagery & Language Imagery 1. Reread the poem to identify the key image the poet's language creates. 2. Draw or insert a picture of the key image into the first box below. 3. Copy the lines that create the key image into the second box below. 4. Then, explain how the image affects the poem's meaning and/or the reader in the third row. 5. Lastly, describe how the image relates to the poem's Romantic topic(s) in the last row. Pro Tip: To identify the key image, ask someone else to read the poem aloud to you while you listen with your eyes closed. What do you visualize when you hear the poem? Draw (or insert a picture of) the key image the poem's language creates. Copy the lines from the poem that create the key image. Actively Learn from Achieve3000 3 Name: How does the image affect the meaning and/or the reader? How is the image related to the Romantic topic(s) in the poem? Figurative Language 1. Reread the poem and identify FOUR examples of figurative language. 2. Identify and record the type of figurative language (e.g., metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, allusion, symbolism, etc.) for each example in the first column. 3. Copy the examples from the poem into the second column. 4. Then, explain what each example of figurative language makes you feel or helps you understand about the poem and/or speaker in the third column. Pro Tip: Choose examples of figurative language that make you think, feel, or have some kind of reaction because they will be easiest to talk about. Figurative Language Type Example From Poem What does the example help you understand? 4 Actively Learn from Achieve3000 Name: Step 3: Analyze Tone & Theme Tone 1. Record the poem's tone (or tones if there is a shift) in the first row. 2. Copy the TWO lines that best convey the poem's tone in the second and third rows. 3. Then, explain whether or not the tone is typical of Romantic poetry in the last row. Pro Tip: To identify the tone (speaker's attitude) of the poem, reread the poem for diction and review the imagery and figurative examples from Step 2. What is the tone of the poem? (If the tone shifts, record both tones and the line in which the shift occurs.) Actively Learn from Achieve3000 5 LO