To motivate students to be active learners 4. To equip students with a sense of purpose 5. This unit is catered to the eleventh grade curriculum. Students have studied poetry throughout the year. Therefore, they have a solid base for analyzing and responding to poetry.
Students can identify the common literary devices and styles of a poem.
However, a short review of poetry terminology might be in order. They recently finished the poets and authors of the Harlem Renaissance. Before that, they read The Great Gatsby . They have been studying modern works for some time, and therefore have some sense of the historical background of this time. As I Lay Dying .