Poetry Lesson
Here’s something I do before either my slavery or civil rights unit:
On a transparency I display Maya Angelou’s “Caged Bird” and Paul Lawrence Dunbar’s “Sympathy” side by side.
I ask them a series of compare/contrast questions and then we discuss the themes.
I’ll then give them some background info on both of the authors.
For homework, they are to compose a poem that explores the same theme.
Dunbar’s Poem- http://www.web-books.com/classics/Poetry/Anthology/Dunbar_PL/Sympathy.htm
Angelou’s Poem http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6834&poem=33060
M Donlevy
On a transparency I display Maya Angelou’s “Caged Bird” and Paul Lawrence Dunbar’s “Sympathy” side by side.
I ask them a series of compare/contrast questions and then we discuss the themes.
I’ll then give them some background info on both of the authors.
For homework, they are to compose a poem that explores the same theme.
Dunbar’s Poem- http://www.web-books.com/classics/Poetry/Anthology/Dunbar_PL/Sympathy.htm
Angelou’s Poem http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6834&poem=33060
M Donlevy
posted by M. Donlevy @ 9:16 AM
2 Comments:
At 9:56 AM,
Gabriela said…
Excellent activity!
At 11:31 AM,
Anonymous said…
I think you have to kind of "sneak" poetry into the curriculum like this - I think (especially older students) get bored by an entire poetry unit, but enjoy seeing how a poem relates to a specific topic.
-Courtney R. Unruh
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