Lesson 1,
Topic 1
In Progress
Discussion Questions
- Choose a few words from the vocabulary list on page 65 and discuss their use in poetry. Refer to God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins to observe some of these vocabulary terms in action.
- How can a teacher be prepared to discuss more about poets’ lives and times in history, which both deeply impact their poetry?
- Discuss how wonder is the beginning of all learning and how this is connected to questioning.
- Discuss how mastery of the tools needed for the art of poetry can be playful. Play a rhyming game together.
