Georgia 7.T.T.4.b
The Standard
Apply poetic techniques (e.g., stanzas, rhyme/rhyme scheme, imagery, figurative language, sound devices) to produce poetry and engage audiences. (C)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Texts (T) · Techniques
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students write poems that use structure, vivid language, comparisons, repetition, rhyme, and sound with a clear purpose. They select techniques that support the poem's meaning, mood, and audience.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students create a focused poem with deliberate line and stanza choices. They use imagery, figurative language, rhyme, or sound patterns to strengthen meaning and hold a reader's attention.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may force rhymes that distort meaning or assume every poem must rhyme. They may name a technique without explaining how it shapes sound, mood, or meaning.
How to Assess It
- Give students an image and ask them to write a six-line poem using imagery, one sound device, and a clear stanza break. Have them underline and label each choice.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs cut-up poem lines to arrange into stanzas, then compare how each arrangement changes pacing, emphasis, and meaning.
Ask students to explain which technique makes a favorite song lyric or poem line memorable, using one quoted example.
Play technique bingo while reading short poems, with squares for metaphor, alliteration, imagery, repetition, rhyme, and personification.
Write a short poem for a school event poster, choosing sound and imagery that fit the event's audience and mood.
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- 8.T.T.4.b
The 8th Grade version of this standard.
- 3.T.T.4.b
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- 4.T.T.4.b
Apply poetic techniques to produce poetry and engage audiences that use a predetermined rhyme scheme to achieve an intended effect. (C)
- 6.T.T.4.b
The 6th Grade version of this standard.
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