Lesson Plans

Assignment to have been completed: Students were to have analyzed one of the two poems on the prompt given to them.

Objectives: To analyze the two poems in the prompt

Activities:

• A. Instruct the students who analyzed “The Wild Swans of Coole” and those who analyzed “The Great Scarf of Birds” organize themselves into two separate groups.
  • 1. Instruct both groups to share the notes they took in accordance with the analytical questions on page 665. Allow them about five minutes to fill in each other’s gaps.
  • 2. Have each group select a spokesperson for questions 1-5, 6-8, 10-12, 13-15, and 16-17, and 18 & 20.
• B. Have the spokespersons for questions 1-5 deliver their information and ask all the students to explain what response each poem seems to evoke in the speaker and how the elements in questions 1-5 help to evoke that response. Caution everyone to take careful notes.
• C. Repeat the process with questions 6-8 for both poems.
• D. Repeat the process with questions 10-12 for both poems.
• E. Repeat the process with questions 13-15 for both poems.
• F. Repeat the process with questions 16-17 for both poems.
• G. Repeat the process with questions 18 and 20 for both poems.

Assignment for next class meeting: Do a rough draft of your response to the prompt.