Block days this week were spent participating in a poetry jigsaw/boggle extravaganza. First, we looked at a power point that explored basic poetic forms and structure. We will be reviewing this again next week, when we dive into literature from the Middle East. To finish up the poetry selections from our Europe section of Reading the World, the class was split into small groups to jigsaw four poems. These were particulary challenging poems, all dealing with theme of death in one way or another. View the list below. In your groups, each of you became an expert on your assigned poem. Next, you taught your group about the poem, and as a group, discussed themes, possible interpretations, questions you had, etc. Everyone should have taken some brief notes to help you review. Remember to read "Forbidden Fruit" if you didn't already! Poetry Selection from today (all are in the Europe section of RTW):
"Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" by Dylan Thomas
"Not Waving but Drowning" by Stevie Smith
Excerpt from "Ten Songs" by W.H.Auden
"And Yet the Books" by Czeslaw Mislosz
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