Poetry vs. Prose
This type of writing uses paragraphs, tells information, or stories directly, and follows regular sentence structure.
What is prose?
Poets use this to create pictures in readers’ minds.
What is imagery?
Poetry can reveal workers’ feelings that facts alone may not show.
What are personal experiences?
This text structure explains an issue and how it was fixed.
What is problem and solution?
What does Miss Toong (try) to play every Friday?
This type of writing often uses lines, stanzas, rhythm, and figurative language.
What is poetry?
Poets choose descriptive words to help readers feel emotions like sadness or hope.
What is to create mood and emotion?
Poems about mills help readers understand daily life during this time period.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Texts about inventions like the cotton gin often use this structure.
What are informational texts?
What is Miss Toong's favorite fruit?
What is mangoes?
One major difference between poetry and prose is that poetry focuses more on sound and feelings.
What is using rhythm and emotion instead of only facts?
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What is the purpose and structure of the text?
Analyzing a poet’s word choice helps readers understand the poem’s deeper meaning.
What is the theme or message?
Poetry often shows struggles caused by new machines.
What are challenges or conflicts?
The problem of slow cotton cleaning led to this solution.
What is the cotton gin?
What American author wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Who is Mark Twain?
Both poetry and prose in Unit 5 explain this topic.
What is how technology impacted society?
Describing factory sounds and machines helps readers imagine this setting.
What is industrial factory life?
Reading poetry helps readers understand how technology affected people emotionally.
What is social impact?
Readers find problems and solutions by looking for clue words like “because” and “as a result.”
What are signal words?
What is the strongest bone in the body?
What is femur?
Reading both poetry and prose helps readers better understand history.
What is getting multiple perspectives?
Strong word choice helps readers connect emotionally to workers’ experiences.
What is the human impact of technology?
Poetry and informational texts together give readers this benefit.
What is a complete understanding of technology’s effects?
What is a complete understanding of technology’s effects?
Analyzing problems and solutions helps readers understand why technology was invented and its effects.
What is cause and effect in society?
In what year and from what country did Mexico gain its independence?
What is 1821, from Spain?