If all of the elements of this lesson plan are employed, students will develop the following powers, skills, and understanding:
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Students will be able to use poetry as a mode of looking into history.
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Students will create poetry in Auden's style relating to current political and social crises.
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Students will explore the relationship between author biography and creative work.
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Students will explore the links between the poem and such twentieth-century milestones as multiple refugee crises and the genesis of blues music.
