Lesson 1,
Topic 1
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Discussion Questions
- Discuss some of the misunderstandings that many people had about Emily Dickinson.
- How is Emily Dickinson an inspiration for how educators and students might cultivate themselves? How does she inspire you?
- How is having poetry critiqued like a surgery? How might it help your students to know that even Emily Dickinson faced a surgery of sorts on her poetry?
- Read and discuss Emily Dickinson’s poem, I dwell in Possibility, by Emily Dickinson (page 159). What can you do with poetry? Compare and contrast poetry and prose together.
- How does poetry give you lots of opportunities to do lots of things at once?
- How might poetry help your students to cope with great pain?
