Activity Lesson Plan
Poetry Club - Those Winter Sundays
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Objective:
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Promote conversational skills
Cognitive and memory stimulation
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Poem Included with this activity
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Activity Lesson Plan
Poetry Club - Those Winter Sundays
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Activity Outline:
1. Share with the participant that you will be discussing poetry.
2. Slowly read the poem.
3. Use the questions below to have a discussion with your loved one
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Can you pick out a passage that strikes you as particularly profound or interesting?
Does the poem remind you of your own life? How?
Does the poem remind you of an event? How?
Does the poem remind you of a person—like a friend, family member, boss, co-worker?
If you were to talk with the author, what would you want to know?
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Activity
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Those Winter
Sundays
By Robert Hayden
Objective:
Sundays too my father got up early
And put his clothes on in the blueback cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
Materials:
I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he'd call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,
Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love's austere and lonely offices?
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Finish the Love Song Title
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