Wallace Stevens: Poems Lesson Plan

Read "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" and "The Emperor of Ice-Cream"

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.6
   Analyze a case in which grasping a point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement).

2. 2

   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.

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