Wallace Stevens: Poems Lesson Plan

Pastiche Portfolio: Day 2

Kind of Activity:

Creative Writing

Objective:

Students will demonstrate understanding of how Stevens's poetic choices contribute to his writing by writing their own imitations of his poems.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3.D; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5

Structure:

This is a continuation of the Pastiche Portfolio project.

Have students choose to write an imitation of either "Sunday Morning" or "The Snow Man" (writing one section of a longer poem is fine). Give students 15-20 minutes of class writing time, then use the remaining 10 minutes to workshop their poems in pairs.

Ideas for Differentiated Instruction:

If students...