[etni] Fw: more on poetry

----- Original Message ----- From: laurie@xxxxxxxx - laurie@xxxxxxxx
Subject: more on poetry

Continuing the poetic mode....

On Valentine's Day, after opening the lesson with Burn's "A Red, Red, Rose", I had my 11th grade native speaker class search the web for the "best" love poem they could find. I was amazed to see what they chose; a good many were true classics...Shakespeare, Tennyson, Spenser. Stephen Foster's "Beautiful Dreamer" (which he set to music) also surfaced . After finding a poem, they had to read and present it to the class, explaining their choice and looking at the literary elements they found in the poem. In addition, they had to write a short piece on the "above". The activity worked well and caught their interest. This was a double-lesson for the Burn's introductory poem and their Internet search. Some got a head start on their homework which was to complete the assignment for the next lesson. The presentations took one lesson.

I'll add here that we began the lesson with a short discussion about Valentine's Day and the class had to find on the web at least 2 possible origins of the day. Interesting.

Laurie

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