Re: Forget the trip. Learn the poem.
Posted by: L. Swilley on 9/05/09
On 9/04/09, Kali wrote:
> I'm a student and have to teach Robert Frost to my class.
> I've already decided to take the class into the forest area
> right outside the classroom because Robert Frost is known
> by his poems about nature, but I'm having trouble figuring
> out how to involve the class more. Any suggestions?
[YOU learn what the poem says and how it says it, how
parts of it reflect or advance (or qualify) other parts, how
the "argument" of the poem is sequentially structured. When
YOU have that in hand, start asking individual students
questions designed to bring them to what YOU have seen. The
forest described in any poem, story, etc. is limited to the
description of THAT forest; it is not any real forest you can
show your students. ]
