Ode Lesson Plans

Students translate Lorca's poem, Ode to Salvador Dali from Spanish and read their interpretations to the class. They discuss the lives and times of both Lorca and Dali.

Students investigate poetry. They listen to examples of odes. Students discuss giving compliments to objects and things. Students write odes in English and in Spanish. They discuss hyperboles.

Students examine and analyze the paintings of Campbell soup cans by Andy Warhol. Using different points of view, they answer discussion questions and share them with the class. They write an ode to a food they enjoy to end the lesson.

Students read and analyze poetry. In this poetry lesson, students read the poem "Ode to Pablo's Tennis Shoes".  They review the poem and focus on form, mood, and figurative language. 

Students view Ode to Chief Seattle and create an animal sculpture.  In this art instructional activity, students choose a variety of materials for creating an animal sculpture using flora and fauna and other environmental images.  Students discuss the symbols in Ode to Chief Seattle.

Students create collages based on Juan Quick-to-See Smith's "Ode to Chief Seattle." In this shapes, symbols and Native American lesson, students examine the "Ode to Chief Seattle" and Henri Matisse's cutout work. Students design their own piece by arranging cut-outs on paper and analyzing how the they paired colors and describing how they used shapes and symbols.

Learners examine how we pay tribute to and represent the landscapes around us in the form of the ode. They analyze the artwork of various artists and writers, create an original work of art, participate in class discussions, view an online slideshow, and answer discussion questions.

Ninth graders examine dictionary skills and participate in a class discussion about lyrical poetry. They examine and discuss the different sections/quartiles of the dictionary, and identify which quartile a list of words would be found. Students then read the poem "Ode to a Nightingale," and identify the characteristics the poem has that makes it a lyrical poem.

Students explore the uses of different word processing functions as they manipulate the tongue-in-cheek poem "Ode to Spellchecker". They practice copying, pasting, saving, font changes, inserting and other basic word-processing operations.

Students discover how President Carter dealt with the Iran Hostage Crisis. In this 20th century history lesson, students explore Carter's foreign policies and read hostage Robert C. Ode's diary. Students then write editorials about the crisis from different perspectives.