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Agriculture Awareness Through Poetry

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Whether you are viewing a landscape painting of a farm, examining a still-life portrait of a bowl of fruit, or reading a descriptive poem about cultivating food, you can't deny that agriculture plays a major role in visual and language arts. Study four such poems with a short activity unit that features poetry by Robert Frost, Agnes Maxwell-Hall, Marianne Moore, and Dr. L.H. Pammel.

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Concepts

robert frost, poets, poetry, food production, farming, george washington carver

Additional Tags

farming, food production, george washington carver, robert frost, Agriculture, poetry, good-by and keep cold, agnes maxwell-hall, marianne moore, dr. l.h. pammel, green-thumb boy, the fox and the grapes, english language arts

Instructional Ideas

Assign during a poetry unit, or in conjunction with a social studies unit on food production
Use as sub plans in a life science or language arts class
Divide the class into four groups and give each group a poem to study and present to the class

Classroom Considerations

Expectations of each page vary from answering multiple-choice questions to writing complete essays
Final letter to George Washington Carver may be indecipherable to some readers; consider working together as a class to interpret its meaning
Activities do not address deeper meanings or themes of each poem, focusing instead on vocabulary