Aim: How can we use the poem, “This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams as inspiration for own poems?
Before The Lesson:
Before the lesson began, Ms. Peterson spoke to us about how this cycle’s class wasn’t mandatory as we had parent teacher conferences, and it was very early in the morning, so students were only expected to submit an attendance form and complete their classwork by the end of the day.
Do Now:
For our Do Now, we had a class discussion in which we had to describe a time when us or someone we knew did something that was wrong and we should have felt sorry for, but we weren’t. Students had a variety of answers such as procrastination, being petty, and my personal answer of making someone sure that I was better than them at the video game we were playing at the time.
This is Just to Say and Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams
As a class, we read the poems This is Just to Say and Variations on A theme, both by William Carlos Williams. We also learned facts about William Carlos Williams, and his poems. These poems resulted in the students being asked to write as many “This is just to say” poems and see which student would be able to come up with the most poems.
Using Imagery in Poetry
After reading two poems by William Carlos Williams, we learned about the different way poets implemented imagery within their poems through the use of a video. We then went on to read three examples of poems that all contained imagery within them along with what the reader is meant to imagine when reading them.
Group Work
We’re assigned group work with every lesson, and the group work for this lesson was to read the poem Fast Break by Edward Hirsch and determine the various instances in which literary devices excluding imagery are seen throughout the poem. We then had to find imagery that was seen throughout the poem. Within my group, we worked very well together and managed to find two instances in which literary devices excluding imagery were used, and another two in which imagery was used.
Homework
Class ended with Ms. Peterson telling us the homework that we had over the break, being to write a 20 line poem about our favorite pastime activity.
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