CONCEPT MAP on POETRY AS TEST 2009 GRADE 11/ Poetry

CONCEPT MAP ON POETRY AS TEST 2009 GRADE 11/ Poetry

Your test this week will be to completely map out a guess/thesis about a poem. This will give you a chance to try out an idea about what a poem means.

You will be graded on the following things about your concept map:

1. Did you make a guess (thesis) about what the poem means?

2. Did you fill in all the boxes in the map?

3. Did you use at least three ideas to support your theory?

4. Did you provide evidence to support your ideas?

5. Do your ideas and evidence make sense?

If your concept map is not neat and readable, I will not accept it.

If your concept map has ideas that are unrelated to the poem you chose, I

will not accept it.

EXTRA CREDIT: If you are done with your map, write a thesis statement.

Here are the poems you may choose from:

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

by Wallace Stevens

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15746

Born to Run

By Bruce Spingsteen

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They Feed They Lion

By Philip Levine

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At Seventeen

By Janis Ian

Pinata with a face Like Mine

By Martin Espada