Daily Lessons for Teaching The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: Book 1, Rainer Marie Rilke : Chapter 1, Hours & Pictures There are many consequences to translating poems from one language to another because words, rhyming, and emotions are lost in the process. Some poems lose their rhyme scheme, and others lose some of their meaning. Concepts and ideas that have a word in German are not guaranteed to have a word in English. To translate Rilke's...
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