[etni] Fw: literature lesson for WEAK 3 point class
----- Original Message ----- From: "sarag" <saragabai@xxxxxxxxx> 
Subject: literature lesson for WEAK 3 point class
This is based on something I heard at some hishtalmut, but I can't remember where or by whom. 
In any case, thank you!!

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".
I printed a picture from Gene's wonderful illustrated Frost site 
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/1487/index.html
and put it on the board.
We brainstormed words about the picture -
 cold, winter, snow, trees (and woods) and so on.

Then I passed out the poem.
1. Read it aloud - so they heard the rhythm, the wind, the "s" sounds etc.
2. read each stanza again - and understood it. (They didn't know every word, but did understand the idea.)
3. assignment - Write sentences about the picture / poem. The really weak ones wrote "Snow is cold." etc. The stronger ones got to things like "The snow is cold in winter, I saw it in the dark woods."
I also told them of seeing Frost on TV, reading one of his poems at Kennedy's inauguration. (In Massachusetts there was a snow storm, so no school that day.) (I was in the 5th grade, but I didn't tell the kids that...) I think one of the important things I achieved here was that they studied a poem by Frost, exactly like all the stronger classes.
btw - at http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/frost/ you can hear Frost reading this poem.) 

sara g

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