Students will brainstorm and generate investigable questions about how poetic elements such as tone, mood, and imagery contribute to the overarching theme of a poem, using their knowledge and community input to focus on authentic inquiries.

Students will collaborate in small groups to design a systematic plan using graphic organizers to explore and identify the central theme of a poem, supported by key details, in consultation with their community partner HMH.

Students will collaboratively gather evidence from both the poem and community insights to identify key details that support its theme, utilizing graphic organizers to systematically record their findings and personal interpretations.

Students will collaborate in small groups to analyze a selected poem, using graphic organizers to identify themes and supporting details, and then prepare to showcase their understandings through a concise short response focusing on their interpretations and evidences from the text.

Students will collaboratively present their interpretation of the poem's theme using a graphic organizer, reflecting on the limitations of their conclusions and identifying alternative perspectives, before sharing insights in a peer discussion to deepen their understanding.