Monday, April 3 - Friday, April 7
Wednesday
Tuesday
2. Tomorrow we will carry-on with Plath's poetry.
Monday
2. Mark poetry quiz
3. Poetry of Sylvia Plath + fractal partners.
Sylvia Plath - Trigger Warning - Plath’s poetry discusses some very hard things – sex, depression, shame, missing relatives, loss and grief. I want you to make an emotional connections to the poems, but the very last thing I want is for students to have such an emotional reaction that they feel unsafe or re-live trauma. Let me know if you feel you would rather I provide you with some alternate poetry readings.
4. Using TODAY’s MEET - let’s find 10 things about Sylvia Plath that are quite interesting.
5. An introduction to the puzzling nature of poetry “Metaphor” by Sylvia Plath. If you have covered this poem before, please don’t “give away” the “answer” to the riddle. Have your “Close Reading of Poetry” sheet handy. We will do the 3 levels of reading of the poem together.
6. Analysis of Metaphors: the contrast between her images and her tone… with your shell partner.
7. “Mirror” Working with fractal partners on a close reading of the poem. Follow the hand-out, looking at diction, figurative language, sound, form, speaker, etc. with different partners in order to arrive at a better understanding of the poem.
“Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath
Did You know it's Read a Road Map Day!
1. Stations! and Plath's poems. Tuesday
It's National Sourdough Bread Day!
1. Essay work time. I have Room 100 booked for today. I am unable to get a booking for tomorrow, but it is booked for Thursday and I have laptops booked for Friday's one hour class.2. Tomorrow we will carry-on with Plath's poetry.
Monday
1. Essay update...
2. Mark poetry quiz
3. Poetry of Sylvia Plath + fractal partners.
Sylvia Plath - Trigger Warning - Plath’s poetry discusses some very hard things – sex, depression, shame, missing relatives, loss and grief. I want you to make an emotional connections to the poems, but the very last thing I want is for students to have such an emotional reaction that they feel unsafe or re-live trauma. Let me know if you feel you would rather I provide you with some alternate poetry readings.
4. Using TODAY’s MEET - let’s find 10 things about Sylvia Plath that are quite interesting.
5. An introduction to the puzzling nature of poetry “Metaphor” by Sylvia Plath. If you have covered this poem before, please don’t “give away” the “answer” to the riddle. Have your “Close Reading of Poetry” sheet handy. We will do the 3 levels of reading of the poem together.
6. Analysis of Metaphors: the contrast between her images and her tone… with your shell partner.
7. “Mirror” Working with fractal partners on a close reading of the poem. Follow the hand-out, looking at diction, figurative language, sound, form, speaker, etc. with different partners in order to arrive at a better understanding of the poem.
“Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath
I’m a riddle in nine syllables,
An elephant, a ponderous house,
A melon strolling on two tendrils.
O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!
This loaf’s big with its yeasty rising.
Money’s new-minted in this fat purse.
I’m a means, a stage, a cow in calf.
I’ve eaten a bag of green apples,
Boarded the train there’s no getting off.
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