Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose Lesson Plan

Read "Split at the Root: An Essay on Jewish Identity" and "Yom Kippur 1984"

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.2
   Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.5
   Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging.

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of...