Let the Poe times begin! Thanks to peer Ann Ballard (who is now blogging at Achieving Dreams…please drop her a comment. She is a great teacher…and friend!) for reminding me and sending me the link to The Interactive Raven, our Focus on Poe began Friday with my Pre-AP English 10 class.
This presentation of “The Raven” also served as a review for the terms alliteration, assonance, and internal rhyme, as it highlights examples of these terms as the students advance through the multiple slides.
Then came the question for which every teacher should be ready: ”Why are we reading this again? We read this in eighth grade.”
After a mere second to think through my reasoning, I responded, “This is a poem that could be read every year about this time. Just perfect for this season.”
“Oh.”
Yes, I think that was a very intelligent reply. How can one argue with such sound reasoning as mine?
On a more serious note, I also reminded the class that reading a literary work more than once is very much acceptable. Right? Probably the foremost example of this is the Bible. Another example that I recently heard two adults refer to was Stephanie Meyer’s New Moon as they planned to view the release of this novel in movie format.
Thus, with this in mind…yes, it is okay to revisit literary works…what Poe selections do you think every student should have read?
Note to self: Use this post as a review of when to use italics and quotation marks in reference to titles and referring to specific words.
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I’m a great proponent of re-reading. I wrote an article for JAAL not too long ago about a project I did with my 10th grade students. You can see the abstract herehttp://tinyurl.com/ye4b98y, or email me and I’ll pass the whole piece along. Also, the article was accompanied with this unit plan: http://tinyurl.com/yat75bh
-TLL
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Tammy Gillmore Reply:
October 4th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Thanks for sharing…I am going read and then share with my students!
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