Learning Goals:

Students will

1. analyze poetry through discussion and writing;
2. identify literary terms, themes, strategies, and issues as are relevant to the works being studied;
3. explain the relationship between literature and the historical/cultural contexts in which it was written;
4. recognize the integrated role and nature of the technical elements of poetry as they contribute to make meaning;
5. recognize and evaluate the elements that compose a poem; and
6. articulate how poetry functions as a social and communicative act.