Appendix
Academic Standards
Oklahoma’s English language arts standards are easy to cross-reference with other sets of academic standards. As written, they vary very little, if at all, among grades 9-12, so I have included only 11th grade.
11.1.R.3 Students will engage in collaborative discussions about appropriate topics and texts, expressing their own ideas clearly while building on the ideas of others in pairs, diverse groups, and whole class settings. This is essential practice when older students work through literature or text of any kind.
11.2.R.2 Students will evaluate details in literary and non‐fiction/informational texts to connect how genre supports the author’s purpose. This leads students through the essential links among confessional poetry, mental health, and ekphrastic poems.
11.3.R.4 Students will evaluate literary devices to support interpreting of texts, including comparisons across texts: imagery, tone, symbolism, irony. These are only a few of the literary and poetic conventions we will address in the unit.
11.3.R.7 Students will make connections (e.g., thematic links, literary analysis) between and across multiple texts and provide textual evidence to support their inferences. This will happen as we look at the poems by three different confessional poet, seeking the different ways each of the poets expresses that confessional voice.
11.7.R.2 Students will analyze the impact of selected media and formats on meaning. By juxtaposing the poems to the artworks and having to look for the painting in the poem (and the poem in the painting), students will have to analyze the impact of the visual on the textual.
11.2.W.1 Students will apply components of a recursive wring process for multiple purposes to create a focused, organized, and coherent piece of writing. In this unit, students will write prose and poetry, but our emphasis on revision will be in our poetry writing. We’ll study Lowell’s revisions of “Epilogue” for possibilities. The close reading and writing that is part of poem study translates to careful consideration of diction and image, maybe even more than in prose.
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