"The New Colossus" Poem Breakdown and Analysis - American Dream Unit
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Grade Levels
9th - 12th
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Standards
CCSSRL.11-12.1
CCSSRL.11-12.6
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- Word Document File
Pages
2 pages
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Emma Lazarus's poem "The New Colossus" is perfect to start the American Dream unit with the promise of the dream.
Here is a graphic organizer that helps students focus on individual aspects and literary devices with the poem. It also contains a place to examine the structure of a Petrarchan sonnet and discuss WHY Lazarus chose that highly structured poetic form.
I partnered students based on pretest data, and they completed as much of the document as they could in 90 minutes. The following class, I projected a copy on the board and annotated with direct instruction to fill in any gaps of information.
Uploaded as a Word document so you may alter to fit your instruction and curriculum.
Here is a graphic organizer that helps students focus on individual aspects and literary devices with the poem. It also contains a place to examine the structure of a Petrarchan sonnet and discuss WHY Lazarus chose that highly structured poetic form.
I partnered students based on pretest data, and they completed as much of the document as they could in 90 minutes. The following class, I projected a copy on the board and annotated with direct instruction to fill in any gaps of information.
Uploaded as a Word document so you may alter to fit your instruction and curriculum.
Total Pages
2 pages
Answer Key
N/A
Teaching Duration
90 minutes
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Standards
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CCSSRL.11-12.1
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
CCSSRL.11-12.6
Analyze a case in which grasping point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement).
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