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EDUC 305
Lesson Plan
Grade Level: 11th and 12th
Subject: English
Learners will share their findings with the class, while the teacher
facilitates discussion.
o Essential Questions:
Where do you see this in the text?
What specific line?
What is the significance?
Teacher will display and model their TWIST analysis of the poem.
Teacher will walk through the poem with the students and ask
questions to provoke critical thinking.
o What happens to a dream deferred? What does the
word deferred mean? What is the speaker asking?
o Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? What does it
mean for a dream to dry up? Can you give me an example?
o Or fester like a sore and then run? How can a dream
fester? How an a dream run?
o Does it stink like rotten meat?
o Or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet? When
the speaker says a dream can crust and sugar over what
is he saying? How can a dream become too sweet?
o Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. What does this line
mean? How can a dream become a burden?
o Or does it explode? This is the most extreme and tense
of all the lines. Imagine a dream exploding. What does this
look like to you?