UNIT+4+-+POETRY

Activity 1
Choose a partner Choose a poet from the list below. a) Create a lesson plan giving a detailed outline of your eventual presentation. b) A handout or booklet - sort of a Dummies Guide to... as a resource for the class. This will include,
 * Deliverables**
 * Objectives: 3 of them phrased in the following way: "Students will be able to..."
 * Resources: Everything you need to have in class in order to carry out your lesson
 * Methodology: Broken down by duration and content -- who says what who does what, when and for how long
 * Evaluation: How will you know that the students have attained your objectives? A few cautionary comments here:
 * no quizzes - the whole Jeopardy thing is not an accurate measure of learning or comprehension
 * no candies!!!
 * **Analysis of 2 poems by each group member**
 * **Testable Items/Key Concepts**
 * **Annotated Bibliography of reference material germane to the poet**
 * **Timeline/Biography of the poet**

Post a link to your written work on the Dummies Guide to Poetry wiki page.

c) A 45 - 70 minute lesson on your poet. This will reflect your lesson plan. Your presentation will be recorded and podcast. PLEASE NOTE: These presentations will take place every Friday of the term. You MUST schedule your presentation date no later than the second week of class.

A.E. Houseman H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) George Gordon, Lord Byron Percy Shelley Andrew Marvell John Donne William Shakespeare e.e.cummings Christina Rossetti Alfred Lord Tennyson E.B. Browning C. Day-Lewis Stephen Spender W.H. Auden Robert Frost Margaret Atwood John Betjeman Sylvia Plath Anne Sexton Emily Dickinson Ezra Pound T.S. Eliot David Jones Lawrence Ferlinghetti Allan Ginsburg Gary Snyder Pablo Neruda Ted Hughes Irving Layton Leonard Cohen Ralph Waldo Emerson W.B.Yeats Patrick Kavanagh Wallace Stevens Robert Browning Denise Levertov Langston Hughes Seamus Heaney Carl Sandburg William Carlos Williams Wallace Stevens Leonard Cohen P. K. Page Robert Burns W. S. Merwin Gwendolyn McEwan

Pony Poem I see the rainbows in monochromatic grey, CareBears trampled to a pulp by My Little Pony -- a bright pool of red in which I swim. Just care enough, believe enough, want it enough... -- a pony crap diet for toddlers. They know the score: There's something wrong with the Merry Go Round Up and Down, a never ending circle of disappointment.