Night Sky with Exit Wounds Lesson Plan

Visual Interpretation

Kind of Activity:

Artistic Response

Objective:

Students will be able to translate Vuong's images into another form

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.4

Structure:

Vuong's poetry draws on strong and surprising visual imagery. Read a few of the most powerful images aloud to the students—for example, "In the museum of the heart / there are two headless people building a burning house" in "Homewrecker"; "If only the rain were gasoline, your tongue / a lit match …" in "Anaphora as Coping Mechanism"; the piano transforming into a horse in "Queen Under the Hill"—and discuss the different ways one might picture these images.

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