The Listeners Lesson Plan

Students should read the poem "The Listeners" be Walter de la Mare.

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1
   Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2
   Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4
   Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact...