Day 5

Sylvia Plath: Poems Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities

  1. 1

    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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