Accessing Our Prior Knowledge
What is “psychology?” What is “literature?” What are “texts?”
What can cartoons tell us about psychology?
What do you know about psychology and literature? Wordle it!
Poe and Poetry Reading Selections12H: “A Valentine” and a helpful analysis
12CP-A: “A Dream Within a Dream” and a helpful analysis
12CP-B: “Alone” and a helpful analysis
From You Tube: "Alone" poetry readingEdgar Allan Poe Biography video and another as print version
Poetry and the Mind: Templates and List of Poetic Devices
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Theoretical Connections: Poetry and Psychology
12H: “Some Thoughts about the Relationship between Poetry and Psychology,” by Richard Brostoff
12CP-A: “Before Words: How to Think Like a Poet,” by Michelle and Robert Root-Bernstein
12CP-B: “The Psychology of Poetry,” by Claudia Miclaus
Knowledge of the mind and the way people think about their worlds and identities
12H: “I Sing the Body Electric,” by Walt Whitman and analysis
12CP-A: “In the Waiting Room,” by Elizabeth Bishop and analysis
12CP-B“Lady Lazarus,” by Sylvia Plath and Analysis
"Rememberance," by Emily Bronte and analysis
"Father and Son," by Stanley Kunitz and analysis
Color Symbolism
Rubric for print and visual composition
What does it take to be really happy?
The habits of supremely happy people
Theory of mind and the act of reading fiction