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Lorine Niedecker: Wisconsin's Greatest Poet High School Study Unit
Last updated: 10/11/05
The intent of this unit is to provide students in a twentieth-century literature class with an awareness of who Lorine Niedecker was as a woman and poet. Students will read about the life of Niedecker, the beliefs of the Objectivist poetry movement, and experience watching a short video of Black Hawk Island with a poem read aloud. After the short unit students should have a written paper applying some of the ideas of the Objectivist poets to poems written by Lorine Niedecker.
The study unit is designed to meet the following criteria:
*It is appropriate for general high school students
*It complies with Wisconsin's Academic Standards for Reading/Literature at the twelfth grade level.
*The unit can be rolled into a larger unit on 20th century poetry, Wisconsin writers, or general poetry.
*It can encompass at least 2 40-minute teaching periods.
Lesson One: Introduction to Niedecker and the Objectivists
Lesson Two: Biographical Poetry
Lesson Three: Objectivist and Political Poetry
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Resource Type:
Learning Module
Subjects (Level One): Language Arts
Subjects (Level Two): History,
Literature,
Reading,
Technology,
Vocabulary,
Writing
Grade Levels: Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth
| Language Arts A.12.2 A.12.3 B.12.1 B.12.2 B.12.3 C.12.3 |
Links to Related Sources:
Lorine Niedecker
Materials:
Download the file (in zip format)
File Contents:
Study Unit Evaluation in MS Word, Study Unit Package in PDF, Study Unit Evaluation in PDF
Creator: Friends of Lorine Niedecker
Keywords: poem, poetry, poet, Wisconsin, Fort Atkinson,
Duration: At least two forty minute periods
Format: Adobe PDF, Word document, Zip file, Web page, Realvideo stream, Windows Media video
Languages: English
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