Unit 4 A garden of poems

step 4 post-reading
assess students understanding by asking their a few questions:
1. when does the writer sing songs?
2. when did the writer begin to touch on poetry?
3. when does the writer read keats and when wordsworth?
step5  exercise i
briefly introduce "dust of snow" by robert frost.
1. listening and reading aloud
play the recording of robert frost's dust of snow at a high volume as the students listen and then have them repeat after the recording. guide them to read with expression.
2. discussion
discuss how many characters are involved in the poem.
(there is no right or wrong answer here as long as the students can give a reason why they want to assign a part to a certain character.)
possible answers include:
two (a crow and a person),
four ( a crow, a person, a tree a heart)
3. analysis
guide them to notice the line "a change of mood".
ask them a few questions
1. his mood has changed, from what mood to what mood?
2. what happens to bring about the change?
4. appreciation
brainstorm about how students feel at the beginning of the poem.
answers may vary:
the crow may let some of them think of bad luck.
the crow above the writer’s head may let some of them think of a lonely place.
5. practice
get students to read the poem aloud again and have some of them to recite the poem in class.
homework:
1. draw a couple of comic strips according to the imagery of dust of snow
2. finish the workbook passage "the birth of modern poetry" by yourself.
record after teaching: