If all of the elements of this lesson plan are employed, students will develop the following powers, skills, and understanding:
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Students will practice closely reading poems for both literal and figurative meanings.
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Students will be able to think and write analytically about literature, using examples from the text and appropriate literary terminology to support arguments about the way a text functions.
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Students will become familiar with H.D.'s life and work.
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Students will become familiar with the Imagist movement in American poetry and will identify aspects of Imagism in H.D.'s poems.
