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Lesson 1 (from Part I (Pages 1 - 24))
Objective
The objective of this lesson is for students to analyze Atwood's treatment of the topics of illness and aging in Part I of Dearly. In "Ghost Cat," Atwood advises the reader to "bar the window" and not let the poem's speaker in if she develops dementia like the cat in the poem does. In "Passports," the speaker laments how a series of passport photos over the years provides evidence of her physical aging. In "Blizzard," the poem's speaker watches, helpless, as her nearly 100-year-old mother slips closer to death, and in "The Tin Woodwoman Gets a Massage," the speaker's joints and tendons ache and groan.
Lesson
Class Discussion: Which poems in Part I deal with themes of aging and/or illness? In general, how does Atwood seem to feel about aging? What about illness? What advice does Atwood seem to have for the reader about these...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.3, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.5, 9-10.9, 11-12.5, 11-12.9
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