![]() ![]() Next: Dive Deep and Analyze!įor the next fifteen minutes, students worked in homogenous small groups to break down the poem on a larger piece of paper. ![]() A few students got the “gist” of the poem and its theme with one read-through. I intentionally did not ask students to share their predicted themes because I wanted them to make this first attempt at theme on their own and then explore the poem without having a preconceived idea in their heads. Then, partners spent about four minutes summarizing the poem’s two stanzas and taking a stab at the poem’s theme. I sequenced major events on the board, which set the context for the poem and exploration of its theme. First Things First: Plot, Summary of Poem, Attempt at ThemeĪs a whole class, we recapped the major events from chapter five ( Where are Ponyboy and Johnny now? What has happened in the recent past?). First, let me run through what students did in class. Ultimately, students showed their level of mastery on a creative writing homework assignment (I’ve included a range of student samples below). My goal was for students to connect the poem’s theme to the novel’s recent events, which touches on the Common Core standard:Ĭ.7.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text provide an objective summary of the text. I asked my seventh grade students to analyze the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost, which appears in chapter five of the novel, The Outsiders. Recently, I revamped a poetry analysis lesson using feedback from the other Transition Fellows. ![]()
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