Personal Reading Read around the topic using resources provided, and finding own. Close Reading Analyse, interpret and respond to language, meaning and ideas in a variety of Baxter's poems, evaluating their literary qualities and effects in relation to purpose and audience. Also add any personal knowledge of the poet. Hand out a brief biography . Refer students to online poetic terms or hand out a list of literary terms and do a basic analysis of The Maori Jesus .
Students begin keeping notes as an aid to essay writing later in the unit.
Ballad of the Stonegut Sugar Works . Teachers wishing to encourage a critical reader response approach to the reading of poems, may find these questions useful. Introduce the notion of social conscience in the Baxter household. This is a good point at which to show excerpts or all of the 1997 film, Road to Jerusalem . Students work on Thoughts of a Dying Calvinist .