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Words like riderless horses: Plath’s eternal voice
Kind of Activity:
Group Work
Objective:
o explore the poet behind the poems, why she made the choices she made as a writer, and how the poems are and are not an accurate representation of who Plath is.
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.3
Structure:
Students will listen to this 1962 interview with Sylvia Plath (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2lMsVpRh5c&t=24s). Students will then split into small groups to talk about the interview.
- Does Plath sound the way they would expect her to sound, based on her poetry? If yes, how? If not, what is different about how she comes across...
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