Expected Outcomes
Stage 3
Unit 3 Assignment
2, 3,
4, 5
Unit 4 Assignment 1, 4
Stage
4 Academic
Unit 7 Assignment 1
Unit 8 Assignment 1
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Description
1. As a class, write a limerick
together.
2. Begin by brainstorming the
different places that the students have visited.
3. Choose a place that is easy to
rhyme with other words and brainstorm a list of those words.
4. Begin the limerick "There once
was ________.”
5. Have different students in the
class suggest the words for each of the lines.
6. As you write down each of the
lines, discuss the elements of the limerick.
7. Using the knowledge that they
have learned, have the students write their own limericks or divide the class
into groups of two or three.
8. Once the individual or group
limericks have been written, publish a class anthology and have the individual
students present the limericks to the class.
Sub-skills Needed:
1. Brainstorming strategies
2. Writing
strategies
3. Discussion strategies
Materials Needed
1. The notes on limericks from the previous lesson
or a review of the elements of a limerick
2. One copy per student of the
Limerick Frame blackline master |
