Sylvia Plath Lesson Plans

1. Cultivating Legends
learning/teacher/bg_teacher.gif) Back to Main Daily Lesson Related Article Plan Sylvia Plath, Lesson Plan Forever an Icon Archive By MARTIN ARNOLD News Snapshot Issues in Depth (Go to Article.) On This Day in History Crossword Puzzle Get Our Lessons By E-mailPrinter-friendly Version Campus Weblines Education News Newspaper in Education (NIE) Teacher Friday, November 10, 2000 Resources Class...

2. Topic: Writer's Workshop--Grandfather's Journey
...nitsky, Raimonda. No Words to Say Goodbye: A Young Jewish Woman's Journey from the Soveit Union into America the Extraordinary Diaries of Raimonda Kopelnitsky. New York: Hyperion, 1994. ~Miller, Randall M. and Miller, Linda Patterson (ed.). The Book of American Diaries. New York: Avon Books, 1995. ~Plath, Sylvia. The Journals of Sylvia Plath. New York: Dial Press, 1982. Extensions: The teacher may decide to change the journal topic. For example: Entry describing different subject/time period; Entry describing the conflicts the individuals may have had adjusting to the new culture. The teacher may also allo...

3. TeachNet -- Thank You for
...th care providers visit the students identify sick children class, discuss their careers and and give or send them their emphasize the importance of activity cards/mini-books. interacting with patients. Students observe the roles of health workers at a hospital. Materials Technology The Bed Book by Sylvia Plath, Students use Microsoft Word, 1976: The Trumpet Club; "The KidPix and Photoshop for their Land of Counterpane" by Robert activity cards/mini-books. Louis Stevenson from A Child's Garden of Verses, 1995:Applewood Books; When Molly Was in the Hospital by Debbie Duncan, 1994: Rayve Productions; Making...

4. Creating metephore poetry
...aphores and similies in them. Go over the poems for meaning. As you are doing this, ask students to point out where they see metaphore or simile in the poems. (Better if poems are short.) Below are several poems that could be used for this: All the Words - Jewel As a Child I Walked - Jewel Mirror - Sylvia Plath A Dream Deferred - Langston Hughes Justice - Langston Hughes She Walks In Beauty - Lord Byron 2nd Part: Last cover the poem "Lost" by Jewel. The metaphores in this are blatantly obvious, though the meaning behind them is not. Here it is (taken from her book of poetry, "A Night Without Armor" (where...

5. Teaching English Language Arts: Wiki Lesson Plan: "Thistles" by Ted Hughes
...es was one of the most successful and influential English poets of the 1960s and 70s. He was born in 1930 in Yorkshire. He began studying and writing poetry at Cambridge University. His poetry is often described as "powerful" with his poems creating a dense imagery for the reader. He was married to Sylvia Plath another well-known poet. His marriage to her was one of turmoil, Hughes has often been accused of being untrue to her. Tragically, Sylvia committed suicide in 1963. Her life story can be seen in the recent major motion picture "Sylvia." Ted Hughes was awarded numerous awards for his work and was app...

6. Post-Modernism
...constructing forms ? poetic or political § rhetorical shock § language of drug subculture, jazz music § references to mythical religions § sarcastic comic touches III. Post-Modernist Authors a. Allen Ginsberg b. Tennessee Williams c. Edward Albee d. Amy Tan e. William Burroughs f. Frank O? Hara g. Sylvia Plath h. Eudora Welty i. Ralph Ellison j. James Baldwin k. JD Salinger IV. Activity: Guided Reading a. America by Allen Ginsberg (selected excerpt) i. read as a class and connect to themes of post-modernism (may want to look up these terms prior to lesson, incl others from poem) 1. Trotskyites - 2. wobbli...