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The Kraken
29/01/12 21:57 Filed in: Literature
The Kraken is a mythical creature that once inspired great fear amongst the early seamen and explorers. The Kraken symbolized all that was unknown in the great oceans of the world.
Listen to this podcast of the Alfred Lord Tennyson poem: The Kraken
Listen to this podcast of the Alfred Lord Tennyson poem: The Kraken
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For the full teaching resource about the Kraken find here:
Discover the Real Kraken
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Teach the poem that has it all...
02/01/12 20:23 Filed in: Literature | Rime of the Ancient Mariner Lesson Plan
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner of by Samuel Coleridge is a poem that has it all: great joy and sorrow, guilt and sin and redemption, and the supernatural. The strong bond with nature is broken when the mariner kills the albatross:
“I had killed the bird that made the breeze to blow.”
That was the start of the mariner’s dark journey. After escaping death and horror, he is destined to go from land to land telling his tale...
The strong imaginative themes make this great work a real winner with high school students. The key is immersing your grade 9 or 10 students in the sounds, the art, the dark feel of the poem.
There are lots of excellent classroom resources to make this piece of literature come alive:
For the most all-in-one complete unit ever made:
Rime-of-the-Ancient-Mariner-Complete-Resource
Preview Part One here: Part 1
The full resource has a teaching guide and workbook-style lessons for the 7 parts of the poem.
Read More...
“I had killed the bird that made the breeze to blow.”
That was the start of the mariner’s dark journey. After escaping death and horror, he is destined to go from land to land telling his tale...
The strong imaginative themes make this great work a real winner with high school students. The key is immersing your grade 9 or 10 students in the sounds, the art, the dark feel of the poem.
There are lots of excellent classroom resources to make this piece of literature come alive:
For the most all-in-one complete unit ever made:
Rime-of-the-Ancient-Mariner-Complete-Resource
Preview Part One here: Part 1
The full resource has a teaching guide and workbook-style lessons for the 7 parts of the poem.
Read More...