21 July 2011

English Victorian Poetry Group Project

  1. Objectives
    1. To provide students with direct experience with reading and understanding poetry
    2. To expose students to English Victorian poetry
    3. To encourage group learning, sharing and responsibility
    4. To provide students with opportunities to read poetry aloud in front of an audience
    5. To require students to express their thoughts and knowledge about a specific poem in a well- organized essay.
  2. Project Overview
    1. Students are assigned to work on the project in groups.
    2. Students will make a presentation to the entire class on the poems assigned to them.
      1. This presentation must cover the areas indicated below.
      2. The style and manner of presentation is left to the discretion of the  group.
      3. Students will also write an individual essay on one of the poems assigned to them.
  3. Group Presentation            All members of the group must be involved with the planning and presentation of the report.  Every member in the group will receive the same score for the group presentation.  At least one full class period will be devoted for group preparation on the project.

            Groups must complete and submit to the teacher a completed “Poem Analysis Form” (see below) for each poem.  In addition to covering the technical aspects of the poems, the group must address the meaning of each poem during the course of their 20 minute presentation.  Each poem must be read aloud to the class by a member or members of the group during the presentation.

            Groups must also formulate five True/False and five Multiple Choice questions for use on the test/exam.
            The method of presentation is up to the decision and creativity of the group.  Audio and visual aids, such as slide shows, original videos, etc. will enhance the presentation and are most welcome.

IV. Essay Assignment

            Each student must write his/her own individual essay concerning one of the poems assigned to his/her group.  The essay must be a five paragraph essay with separate introductory and concluding paragraphs.  Typed essays must be double-spaced.  Students are to answer this question in their essays:

            William Wordsworth remarked, “All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of  powerful feelings (it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility).” Choose one of the poems from those assigned to your group and demonstrate   how it is or is not a good poem according to Wordsworth’s definition.

V. Grading
            Group Presentation – 50 points
            Personal Essay – 30 points

VI. Assigned Poets and Poems
 Group 1                                              Group 2                                  Group 3
Tennyson                                          Browning                                Hopkins                                              
“Ulysses”                                            “My Last Duchess”                 “God’s Grandeur”
“Break, Break, Break”                        “Home Thoughts from            “The Windhover”
“The Eagle”                                          Abroad”                                “Pied Beauty”
“Crossing the Bar”                              “Prospice”                              “Spring and Fall:
                                                                                                          To a Young Child”
 Group 4
Housman
Eliz. Browning

“To an Athlete Dying                                more or different poets and poems may be
 Young”                                                  selected depending on number of students
“Is My Team Ploughing”                            in the class and availability of poems
Sonnet 14
Sonnet 43
  

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