Deepening
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to facilitate engaging conversation about the text.
Procedure
1. Read through the poem: mark, draw, underline, annotate
2. Then, softly, the teacher gives the students a series of images from the poem to
thinkabout and to write about indirectly.
So, using the questions above, have students write for two - three minutes about
each of the following images.
3. Look back at the poem. How do the images (and your responses) relate-
connections- of differences as well as of similarity
Assignment / Connection
Share one of your last two writings or notes