Lesson Plan Template - Poem (Page 2 of 4) in pdf

Lesson Plan Template - Poem Page 2

Activity 1

Ask students if they have some dreams now. How do they treat their dream?

Hold on to it or just laugh at it and see it as impossible?

reading:

Read aloud the poem ‘Dreams’ by Langston Hughes without giving students

the copy.

Dreams

by Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams

For when dreams go

Life is a barren field

Frozen with snow.

Ask students how the poet treats his dreams. Hold on to them or abandon

them?

reading:

Give out the copy of the poem. Ask students to read the poem when the

teacher is reading it aloud.

Ask students what the poet compares ‘life’ to when there are dreams and

when there are no dreams. Point out the writing technique, ‘metaphor’, to

them. Also, ask students to identify the rhyming words in the poem e.g. die,

fly, go, snow.

reading:

Ask boys to read the first two lines of each stanza and girls to read the last 2

lines (the metaphor) of each stanza. Ask them what they feel after it.

Ask students to form a small group of 2 to 4. Think of some other ways to

read the poem. (They can try to read it very loudly or very softly. They can

pretend to be someone/ something else when they read it.) Then read it to

Lesson Plan Template - Poem Page 2