Success criteria:
1. I can show understanding of the world and motivations of James K. Baxter, with supporting evidence.
2. I can analyse a Baxter poem, with supporting evidence.
3. I can critically respond to a Baxter poem, with supporting evidence.
Resources:
Excerpts from The Road to Jerusalem
Excerpt from Paul Millar's introduction to The Selected Poems of James K. Baxter, edited by Paul Millar.
Baxter reading a poem
Profile of Baxter from NZEDGE Legends
Biography of Archibald Baxter from Te Ara.
Dave Dobbyn's Song of the Years, set to the words of Baxter's poem.
Using the resources above, and poems handed out in printed form, make notes in a chart with three columns:
1. Key events in Baxter's life:
2. What Baxter wrote about:
3. Questions I have about Baxter and/or his poems:
Note that the success criteria relate to the three levels of thinking in NCEA: 'understand' at level 1, 'analyse' at level 2 and 'critically respond' at level 3.
ReplyDeleteWhat matters for this task is that you are processing the material. It's fine to have lots and lots of questions in the third column, and this helps me know how to shape the next lesson(s). Try to be increasingly specific about what Baxter wrote about. You may find it useful to take one section of one poem and write what you think is going on, and then several specific questions about the 'hard' parts. It's all about sharing your thinking with me at this stage - there are no wrong questions.
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