If I Could Tell You by W.H. Auden

Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

Learning Target: Analyzing Poetry

Reading: Watch one of the Edpuzzle videos (15 minutes)

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. If I Could Tell You by W.H. Auden
1. Read the poem once silently.
2. Read the poem once out loud.
3. One minute to point out any patterns.
4. Annotate the poem
5. Generate questions for discussion.
2. Discuss the poem in small groups. Come up with your best questions, thoughts, and epiphanies for tomorrow.
3. Write it Right: Sentence Variety
4. Word Journal F 
5. Upcoming poems
1. Sympathy by Lawrence Dunbar
2. Preludes by T.S. Elliot
3. Sonnet 43 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
4. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
6. How to Read Literature Like a Professor chapter signups

Homework:

1. WIR Sentence Variety
2. Word Journal F