Ars Poetica Lesson Plan

Scavenger Hunt: Archibald MacLeish

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will explore the biographical and contextual background of one of the poets.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.7-8.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.7-8.2 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.7–8.7 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.7-8.8

Structure:

To begin this activity, the teacher should have students watch the following video as a class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgAS7_TRQMY

Once the discussion ends, the teacher should break students into groups of 3–5 people. The next part of the activity is a scavenger hunt: each group will be tracking down more biographical information about MacLeish online, using...