1. OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to write an essay that makes an effective analytical claim, using the author's word choice as evidence, about the author's tone or purpose in a grade-level text.
2. Interests
   1. A student who loves photography
      1. Assignment: The student will identify types of imagery in the poem and create visual analogues photographically. She will then partner with the songwriter to create a slideshow to accompany the songwriter's music for the poem.
   2. A student who spent a summer with a professional dance troupe
      1. Assignment: This student will study the imagery and mood of them poem, and partner with the songwriter to create an interpretive dance to the music the songwriter has written to accompany the poem. The two will create a dance/musical presentation of the poem, accompanied by the photographer's photographs in slideshow.
   3. A student who spends all of her free time playing guitar and writing songs.
      1. Assignment: This student will study the author's tone and the poem's mood, and set the poem to music that complements it. She will then partner with the dancer to create a dance/musical presentation of the poem, accompanied by the photographer's photographs in slideshow.
3. Learning profiles
   1. A kinesthetic learner.
      1. Assignment: This student will create a word-choice exhibit that pairs key words in the poem with different items that reflect their tone, for example, a pillow to represent the word "sleep" or a blanket to represent the word "downy," and additional items to reflect synonyms of the words that the author might have used instead.
   2. An auditory learner.
      1. Assignment: This student will use audio software to remix an audio recording of the poem into a soundscape that reflects the mood and tone of the poem.
   3. A visual learner.
      1. This student will create a diorama of the poem's setting with its characters.
4. Levels of Readiness
   1. A student with a significant speech impairment
      1. This student will use assistive speech software to categorize the words of the poem logically to prepare for an assisted recitation.
   2. A student with a reading disability
      1. This student will assist the diorama creator, and together they will write a simplified description of how the character and setting function together to help create mood.