Death of a Naturalist Lesson Plan

Mapping Seamus Heaney's Life & Backstory

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will learn about Seamus Heaney's life and backstory, create a timeline or visual map of the events and experiences that shaped him, and analyze connections between his life and experiences to his poetry.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.R.11-12.1, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.R.11-12.4, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.R.11-12.5, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.6

Structure:

Begin by explaining to the class that there is a lot of cryptic and thematically complex information conveyed in Seamus Heaney's Death of a Naturalist and that learning about Seamus Heaney's life and career could help to...