This day's poems showcase some of Bradstreet's formal, published work, in which she dutifully follows poetic conventions of the time and considers subjects far more impersonal than those that would mark her later work. Students should read the following poems:
"The Prologue"
"The Four Elements"
"Of the Four Ages"
"The Four Seasons"
Common Core Objectives
- 1
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text. - 2
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.2
Write informative/explanatory texts...
