Today's session considered possible content for the essay:
HOW DOES MARVELL USE LANGUAGE, FORM AND STRUCTURE TO SHAPE MEANING?
Class discussion considered theme, how metaphor is used to shape meaning, the significance of rhyme and rhythm, and author's aim. Class discussion was good but I feel that some students need to read this poem with a much more critical literary eye. I posted some resources to my last blog entry. YOU SHOULD DIGEST THESE RESOURCES.
The class then discussed the famous 'Daffodils' by William Wordsworth. Again...I perceive our discussion today as a 'starting point'. I expect the discussion in the next session to be more detailed and more textually specific.
HOMEWORK: Read the poems and digest my resources. Your reading will inform your written work. I expect to spend 30/40 minutes of the next lesson discussing and shaping the content of your first essay. Students need to decide which poem will be the focus of their first essay. The rest of the lesson will focus upon the opening section of Fitzgerald's THE GREAT GATSBY.
THREE YOU TUBE RESOURCES for Marvell's poem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gmaKW5uvls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUR7sNTDolY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pyw6FzQ33U
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