Everything you need to understand or teach American Primitive by Mary Oliver.
The narrator in this collection of poem is the person who speaks throughout, Mary Oliver. The poems are written in first person, and the narrator appears in every poem to a lesser or greater extent. In "August", the narrator spends all day eating blackberries, and her body accepts itself for what it is. In "The Kitten", the narrator takes the stillborn kitten from its mother's bed and buries it in...
American Primitive: Poems Lesson Plans contain 120 pages of teaching material, including: