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My inquiry unit is designed for my AP Literature and Composition class which calls for a significant emphasis on analysis of poetry. The essential question for my unit is "What is the Point of Poetry?". In the course of the unit, students are exposed to a number of poems and will engage in activities that ask them to explore the essential question in light of the poems they encounter. The culminating project is a Poetry Classification Essay using whatever system they choose. Therefore, this unit involves exploration of both poetry analysis and the classification genre. __Inquiry Unit Template__
 * Inquiry Unit**

__Frontloading Activities__

__Activities in Unit Plan__ Poetry Packet Essential Question Tracking Poetic Precis-Assignment Description Classification Essay--**Inquiry Square** Small Groups Poetry Classification Proposal **(Symbolic Representation)**: Thesis Brainstorming/Essay Planning Essay Assignment __

__Questioning Scheme__
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__Visualization Activities__ (Frontloading for //Things Fall Apart//) using images to teach historical background Story Map for AP Lit Students--Understanding The Absurd Man (two essays by Camus) Story Map--//Things Fall Apart// Customs and Rituals

Think Aloud

Reading Manipulative/Symbolic Story Representation Small Groups Poetry Classification Proposal **(Symbolic Representation)**:

Inquiry Square (classification essay)