We will practice critical reading and interpretation skills on these poems today in class:
"The Traveling Onion" by Naomi Shihab Nye"The Pardon" by Richard Wilbur
"Practice" by Timothy Steele
"The Flea" by John Donne
Reminders to Consider:
- Pay attention to the details
- Reread the poem multiple times
- Form a hypothesis and then check the details against it. If it all works out, you have an interpretation that fits in the "cone of rightness."
- If all of the details don't fit or you can't come up with an adequate explanation for some part of the poem, your interpretation is NOT in the "cone of rightness" so go back and form a new hypothesis.
- Record your interpretation, thoughts, a-ha moments in your journal--it's evidence of your critical reading!
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