Teach This Poem

The following activities and questions are aimed at allowing students to read the poems with their attention and to have confidence in thinking about their meanings as evidence of their interpretation. Read more about the framework underlying these activities

Reference material: Please read the teachers, the experiment of this class and prepare for the same activity in the class.

Warm up (shared): Recalculate the time you entered a new place you do not know someone. What do you think?

Before reading the poem (Group Activity): Drink an instillator filled with cocoa vegetable oil (so that you can see it better). What happens when putting oil drops in a water container? Please stir the oil in the water. Record what you saw, for later reference.

Read poetry: After reading the poet quietly, write down the word, phrase, structure that jumped out. If you know Spanish, please read this verse in two languages.

Please listen to the poem (please recruit two volunteers to read this poet aloud): Write down the new content you listen as you read the poet aloud. If you are reading Spanish, voluntarily read this poem in Spanish in class.

Panel Discussion: What do you think about the structure of this poem? What is the image of each section?

The whole class discussed: Why do you think the poet used this structure for this verse? Please use the evidence to support your answer. What kind of image did the team decide on? Why do you think the poet picks those images? Why do you think the spokesman said that his crime was "always my life"?

Extension for 7 - 10 graders (group activities and personal writing): Let's review the warm-up, make a form and show emotions unsuitable for the place. After sharing your photo with your class, write short poems and essays about your own inappropriate experience.

Expansion of 11 - 12 years: Why do you think the speaker in the poem feels like a criminal? How are people feeling criminals and outsiders in our country today? Write an article explaining your answer to these questions

Details on the teacher's background: In this interview about President Barack Obama's second inauguration ceremony for the poem "Today's Piece", the poet Richard Blanco says: And children - I have to seriously consider the relationship with America.

When you are a freshman, undergraduate, graduate poet professor, how do you choose a poem for a particular class? Second, how do you teach selected poetry? These two issues are important if poetry is learned and appreciated by students. It shows one of myriad ways in which five critical thinking levels can be used for practical classroom use. I will explain the spiritual way using Emily Dickinson's short poem (P185). This is not a simplified one, it's simple and straightforward. As a gentleman can see, faith is a good invention - but the microscope is cautious in emergencies. (Poems 1-4) My purpose is to convey this poem to freshmen who are often confused by poetry. Rotary's language is over-emphasized.

When teaching Dickinson's poetry, we always start with two books by Joseph Du Chuck: Emily Dickinson's Poetry: 1890-1977 (1979) English Commentary Guide and Emily Dickinson's Poetry: Annotated Commentary This guide Was published in English, 1978-1989 (1993). Duchac delicately summarizes the wide range of critical discussions of each poem, and gives students a sense of different ways of scholars criticizing Dickinson. Another book we often consult with is Helen Bendler, Dickinson: selected poetry and commentary (2010)

This is an interesting poem, but this book is difficult to teach. As I did for short poetry, we first ask students to read poetry aloud and then there is usually a silence of a kind of silence after he or she is over. This is because students think that Collins' last line is an attack. Through terrible images, the speaker insists that the student is a malignant and torturing poetry. Students are not satisfied with this criticism. After all, they are in literature courses where they are taught to analyze reading, examining the condition, meters, metaphors, similes and more. Now they met an outstanding poet - the former American poet winner! - In poetry, students are claimed to have not approached poetry with a correct attitude and spirit.