Summative

For all of those who regularly check my blog, you now have an advantage! This is a poem that you must interpret for your summative in Monday's class. I am giving it in advance, so you have more time to do your thinking. You cannot discuss this poem with a parent or classmate. You can look at ANY of your poetry notes. All answers will be written in class on pencil and paper on MONDAY. Any notes you make before class, can be used in class.

Discuss how a PART of the poem (word, image, phrase, line, or stanza) plays a role in creating the WHOLE poem. Be sure to talk about HOW the part develops the larger IDEA/MEANING of the poem. Use everything you know about close reading and analyzing literature as you show your thinking and support it.

To Look at Anything

John Moffitt

To look at anything,

If you would know that thing,

You must look at it long:

To look at this green and say,

“I have seen spring in these

Woods,” will not do – you must

Be the thing you see:

You must be the dark snakes of

Stems and ferny plumes of leaves,

You must enter in

To the small silences between

The leaves,

You must take your time

And touch the very peace

They issue from.


Rubric
Two grades - one for ideas, one for use of evidence