Thinking Inductively: A Close Reading of Seamus Heaney's "Blackberry Picking"
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- Aug 13 2010 9:30 PM
Mary Kay Monson
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This strategy is easily adapted to other grades and poetry.
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In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students analyze the poem "Blackberry Picking" by Seamus Heaney by listing examples of imagery, diction and figurative language. Looking for patterns within their lists, they "lump" them into categories and apply these categories to the poem's structure to determine meaning. Students are then able to write theme statements and support them with specifics gleaned from the poem.
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Grade: 9 to 12
Topics: Reading Comprehension, Literature, English-Language Arts