Summary
After completing the lesson, students will be able to:
- Read aloud texts with proper pronunciation, stress, and intonation
- Read and understand written instructions
- Understand and enjoy stories and poems
The lesson includes a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks titled "I had a dream last night." In the poem, the speaker reflects on choosing parents from a variety of people, ultimately realizing they would choose their own parents, which brings them joy.
Activities include:
- Underlining all the verbs in the poem and listing them in two columns: present tense and past tense.
- Changing the past tense verbs to present form and present tense verbs to past form.
- Reading the poem aloud with proper pronunciation, stress, and intonation.
After completing the lesson students will be able to
- read aloud texts with proper pronunciation, stress and intonation
- read and understand written instructions
- understand and enjoy stories and poems
A Read the following poem.
André
-Gwendolyn Brooks
I had a dream last night. I dreamed
I had to pick a mother out.
I had to choose a father too.
At first, I wondered what to do,
There were so many there, it seemed,
Short and tall and thin and stout.
But just before I sprang awake,
I knew what parents I would take.
And this surprised and made me glad;
They were the ones I always had!
A1 Underline all the verbs in the poem above. Then, list them in two columns: present tense and past tense. Next, change the verbs in the past tense to their present form, and the present tense ones to their past form.
Example:
Present tense | Past tense |
have | had |
choose |
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A2 Read the poem aloud with proper pronunciation, stress and intonation
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