Sylvia Plath: Poems Lesson Plan

Words like riderless horses: Plath’s eternal voice

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

o explore the poet behind the poems, why she made the choices she made as a writer, and how the poems are and are not an accurate representation of who Plath is.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.3

Structure:

Students will listen to this 1962 interview with Sylvia Plath (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2lMsVpRh5c&t=24s). Students will then split into small groups to talk about the interview.

- Does Plath sound the way they would expect her to sound, based on her poetry? If yes, how? If not, what is different about how she comes across...