Description
The Mary Oliver Poetry Student Activity Book is designed for students studying Oliver’s poetry. It is the perfect complement to a collection of her poems for students to develop their analysis and hone their essay writing skills. This workbook scaffolds students to analyse the poetry of Oliver by identifying four central themes in her poems and focusing on how 15 key poems represent these ideas:
- Wild Geese
- Starfish
- Stanley Kunitz
- One or Two Things
- Sunrise
- Two Kinds of Deliverance
- The Sunflowers
- August
- Mushrooms
- Lightning
- Ghosts
- University Hospital, Boston
- Skunk Cabbage
- The Fish
- In Blackwater Woods
This workbook includes:
- an introduction to the central ideas in Oliver’s poetry
- a summary and study notes on each of the poems listed above
- a set of writing activities on each of the poems above that supports students to write about the ideas and techniques in the poem
- extended essay writing activities
- a list of essay tasks
This workbook is spiral bound and is designed to be written in and interacted with. This resource cannot be photocopied or reproduced.
ISBN: 978-0-6455181-6-0
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