Georgia 4.P.CP.2.e
The Standard
Build background knowledge by reciting all or part of significant poems and speeches as appropriate by grade level. (I/C)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Practices (P) · Collaboration & Presentation
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students learn selected lines from an age-appropriate poem or speech and recite them accurately. They explain the speaker, setting or occasion, and ideas or history carried in the words.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can recite a selected passage accurately, in order, and with clear pacing and expression. The student can explain the text's speaker, occasion, and connection to history or culture.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat recitation as fast memorization and ignore meaning, phrasing, and expression. They may confuse the speaker with the author or share historical facts unrelated to the selected lines.
How to Assess It
- Ask each student to recite four to six practiced lines. Then have the student write one sentence explaining the occasion and one key idea.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups cut-apart lines from a selected poem, then have them rebuild the stanza, mark key words, and rehearse it aloud.
After reading a speech excerpt, ask, "What event shaped these words, and why might people still remember them?"
Run a recitation relay where partners alternate lines, then repeat the passage with clear pacing, volume, and expression.
Connect a civic commemoration to a famous speech, then have students present an excerpt and explain its historical setting.
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