Blog Post 8

In a lesson on poetry, I could use PowerPoint to support the lesson while utilizing Bloom's Taxonomy. For the remember level, I can have students create a slide that has a list of types of poems that they know. For the understand level, I could assign each group with a different one of those poems and have each group explain (on a different slide) the components of their respective poem type. For the apply level, I could have each group write an example poem (of the type they were assigned) on its own slide using the knowledge they learned on the previous slide. For the analyze level, I could have the students exchange poems and explicate the poems. They can then organize their notes and findings into a "smart graphic" chart on another slide of their PowerPoint. For the evaluate level, the students could evaluate the purpose of poems and how they have been used throughout history by making a slide with historic examples and explaining them to the class. For the create level, the students could compose a jeopardy game on PowerPoint to test the rest of the class about the components of their groups respective poem type.

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