English
Reading Poetry: “love is a place”
by E. E. Cummings
About this Lesson
Objectives
T E A C H E R
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Level
Connection to Common Core Standards for English Language Arts
Code
Standard
Level of
Thinking
Depth of
Knowledge
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Teacher Overview—Reading Poetry: “love is a place”
Code
Standard
Level of
Thinking
Depth of
Knowledge
T E A C H E R
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Teacher Overview—Reading Poetry: “love is a place”
LTF Skill Focus
Remember
Understand
Close Reading
written, spoken, and visual texts
Reading Strategies
Levels of Thinking
Apply
Analyze
Grammar
purposeful use of language for effect
Mechanics
Evaluate
Create
Composition
written, spoken, and visual products
Types (modes)
Literary Elements
Clauses
The Process of Composition
Sentences
Structural Elements
Style/Voice
T E A C H E R
Analysis of a Text
Syntax Techniques
Analysis of a Text
Connections to AP*
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Materials and Resources
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Teacher Overview—Reading Poetry: “love is a place”
Assessments
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Teaching Suggestions
T E A C H E R
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Answers
1. There are two sentences in the poem. Each stanza comprises one sentence.
3. The first sentence is compound: love is, places move
The second sentence is also compound: yes is, worlds live
4. Inverted clauses: “move all places” and “live all worlds”
Natural order: “all places move” and “all worlds live”
5. The ampersands function as coordinating conjunctions.
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English
Reading Poetry: “love is a place”
by E. E. Cummings
Tips for Reading Poetry
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“quick read”
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title
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speaker setting
form
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situation
denotation
connotation
development
subject
theme Subject
theme
heard
read.
Grammar and Syntax in Poetry
comma splices
rhetorical fragments
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Student Activity—Reading Poetry: “love is a place”
is
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natural
sound
tone
meaning
“love is a place.” Copyright 1935, © 1963, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust. Copyright © 1978 by George James
Firmage, from COMPLETE POEMS: 1904-1962 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage.
Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
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Student Activity—Reading Poetry: “love is a place”
tone
Parentheses
tone
tone
Writing Activity
tone
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