After studying and teaching English Romantic Poetry and finding myself aglow with delight, I built a time machine and traveled back 30 years to talk to my teenage self. Here’s what transpired: Me: Hey, Trent! Teenage Me: Who are you, old man? And why are you talking to me? Me: I’m you from the future […]
A Robert Frost Lesson Plan for National Poetry Month: Symbolism in the Poems of Robert Frost
April 20, 2016 By
Teaching: An Allegory It was National Poetry Month and Mr. Deadmeat was preparing his Robert Frost lesson plans in anticipation of Principal Istabteachersintheback coming to observe his classroom. It was a symbolism lesson plan involving the poems of Robert Frost. It did not go well. Tim Burgerflipper insisted that the mending wall was a stone […]
“The Raven” Lesson Plans: Symbolism in “The Raven”
April 1, 2016 By
My colleague just told me that April was National Poetry month. I thought she was playing an April Fool’s joke on me, so I took a swing at her. She blocked the punch, jabbed me in the throat with a paper clip, whacked me on the head with a stapler, and knocked me out. When […]