anyone lived in a pretty how town Lesson Plan

Cummings in Poetic Movements

Kind of Activity:

Research

Objective:

Students will be able to understand the poetic context in which Cummings worked

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.7; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.8; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.2

Structure:

Divide students into three groups. Assign each group to research one of the following:

• Literary Modernism
• Imagism in poetry
• Avant-garde poetry

They should create brief presentations that define their assigned poetic movement; give some examples of poets besides E.E. Cummings who were part of it; analyze a mentor text by a poet other than E.E. Cummings as an exemplar, using the characteristics of that "school";...