If all of the elements of this lesson plan are employed, students will develop the following powers, skills, and understanding:
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Students will be able to closely read poems for both literal and figurative meaning.
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Students will be able to think and write analytically about literature, using examples from the text and appropriate literary terminology to support arguments about the way a text functions.
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Students will be able to familiarize themselves with modernism in American poetry and be able to identify elements of modernism in Stevens's work.
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Students will be able to make their effectively analyze Stevens's complex poetic and rhetorical devices and identify themes...
