[Revised[ Lesson Plan for 4-29

Main idea: I want to take a look at the differences between healthy sympathy, and unhealthy sympathy.

If we have time, there are two activities that I would like to do. Firstly, I'd like to read off a few quotes from the DB's that are in so far, and maybe discuss some of the themes that are surfacing (strength's of Poetry as a vehicle for sympathetic imagination, and the validity of some of the views that the poems take themselves.)

After this, I want to do a brief poetry-writing exercise that will allow us to both use creative writing as a means of sympathetic imagination, as well as to experience the degree of difficulty that goes into writing meaningful poetry. Basically, I'll come prepared with a couple scenarios that will serve as the basic premise of the poem (probably two or three). After all the short poems have been written, we'll collect them, mix them up, pass them out, and then read them.

Then, if we still have time, we can discuss individual poems and the effect that they have on us as listeners.