Monday 31st: Designing a Questionnaire to Analyse Poetry

These is the task you are to do:

1) Divide yourselves into groups of 3/4 people. Half of the class will work with “These are the Times We Live in”, by Imtiaz Dharker, and will complete the activities on pages 25 – 27. The other half will work with “The Border Builder”, by Carol Rumens and will complete the activities on pages 23 – 25.
2) To analyse the poems, you can bring computers to the classroom since I have booked “Aula virtual”.
3) Once you have analysed the poems, you have to write a questionnaire of 6 questions. The questions should aim at making your mates understand the poem. That means you cannot ask, for instance, “What is the tone of the poem”. Instead, you have to ask questions such as: “The persona uses the words “distressed” and “gloomy” to describe his mood. What does that semantic field suggest about the tone?”
4) Each member of the group will post the questions on his/her blog. Do not forget to head the activity.