Day 4

Gwen Harwood: Poems Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Read the following poems:

Class of 1927
Bone Scan
I.M. Philip Larkin
The Sun Descending
Schrödinger’s Cat Preaches to the Mice
Night and Dreams
Cups
1945
Forty Years On
Sunset, Oyster Cove
Mid-Channel
Pastorals

Content Summary for Teachers

Class of 1927

The first section recalls children at school, including a child who would steal scientific equipment to use on animals. In the second section, the speaker is told to let another girl win the spelling bee but refuses. Later she feels guilty about her refusal. The third section describes the speaker getting belittled by a religious teacher. In the fourth section, two twins are raised by their blue-collar father after the death of their...

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