Comparing and Contrasting Mediums of Caged Bird by Maya Angelou

Subject Area

English Language Arts

Grade(s)

6

Overview

Students will explore three mediums of the famous poem, "Caged Bird"  by Maya Angelou. Students will read, listen to audio, and a watch a video of the poem and compare and contrast the differences using a graphic organizer.

This activity was created as a result of the ALEX  Resource Development Summit.

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 6

ELA21.6.11

Utilize written, visual, digital, and interactive texts to generate and answer literal, interpretive, and applied questions.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.6.11

Vocabulary

  • Written text
  • Visual text
  • Digital text
  • Interactive text
  • Literal questions
  • Interpretive questions
  • Applied questions

Knowledge

Students know:
  • There are a variety of text sources, including written text, visual text, digital text, and interactive text.
  • Text sources can be used to create and answer questions.
  • Literal questions are those that can be answered using information directly from the text.
  • Interpretive questions are those that can be answered by inferring information from the text.
  • Applied questions are those that can be answered using information inferred from the text and a reader's background knowledge and experience.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Use written, visual, digital, and interactive texts to create and answer questions.
  • Create and answer literal, interpretive, and applied questions.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • There are three levels of questions that can be generated: literal, interpretive, and applied.
  • They can use written, visual, digital, and interactive texts to create and answer all three levels of questions.

Phase

During/Explore/Explain
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

I can...

  • compare and contrast a text to an audio, video, or multimedia version of the text.

  • analyze how the delivery of a speech affects the impact of the words.

Activity Details

  1. Give each student the graphic organizer.

  2. Provide a digital or printed copy of the poem, "Caged Bird" by Maya Angelou.

  3. Students will read the poem independently or with a partner.

  4. Students will take notes in the section labeled, "Reading", on the graphic organizer.

  5. Students will listen to the audio of "Caged Bird". The link is a video, but students should not see any visuals of the speaker for this part of the activity. (The teacher can play this on their phones or on an interactive panel.)

  6. Students will record their notes on the section labeled, "Audio".

  7. Students will watch and listen to the Maya Angelou recite "Caged Bird".

  8. Students will record notes in the "Video" section and complete the self-assessment.

Assessment Strategies

Assessment Strategies

A simple checklist should provide the teacher with insight as to whether or not students have met, exceeded, or needs extra help in mastering the standards. The teacher should also look at the graphic organizer for accuracy and completion.

Possible Checklist for assessment. 

Variation Tips

If students are having a difficult time comparing and contrasting each medium, students can use this list of adjectives.

Background and Preparation

Background / Preparation

  1. Print copies of the poem, "Caged Bird" by Maya Angelou.

  2. Provide students with a digital or printed copy of the graphic organizer.

  3. You can share the different mediums whole class or individually via Google Classroom or email. If students have access to iPads, you can create QR codes to each of the mediums.

    1. How to create a QR code: Click this link to take you to QR Code Generator

    2. Open the link to the poem, video, or audio and copy (Ctrl +C) and paste (Ctrl + v) the link into the box on the QR code generator website

    3. Generate the static QR code, download, and print

  4. If you prefer doing the lesson whole group (I recommend this delivery method for the video and audio); don’t worry about creating QR codes.

  5. Explain to students that they will be exposed to a poem in three mediums. Explain to students that there are no wrong or right answers, but the skill is about comparing and contrasting text presented in different mediums.

  6. Students will:

    1. read the poem.

    2. listen to the audio.

    3. watch the video.

  7. Students will complete the graphic organizer after each medium.

Owner (Author)

mchatman
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