“Traditional Symbolism in Kubla Khan” in Sewanee Review 72 (1964), as well as the literary encyclopedia noted in #3 will be useful)
- We will spend the next four days in the media center (combination library/computer lab) doing research on this assignment. This assignment (both the paper and the presentation) will then be due ninth day of this lesson. (See assignment/rubric for specific details.)
Days Five through Eight are research and writing days.
- From their research, students will share an encapsulated version of their interpretations with each other as we jigsaw groups of four so there is one person representing each screen per group. While the papers are evaluated by the teacher, students will evaluate these presentations using specific rubrics for this task. Additionally, students can do peer editing at this time within the group. The final papers are then due, along with the papers that have been peer edited, on Day Ten.
- Student papers on interpretations of “Kubla Khan” using interpretive screens are due today as are self-evaluations of the process of writing these (see handout).
- Homework from Day One (see #12).
- Homework from Day Three (see #12).
- Presentation of material to peers (student assessed--see Day Four #6 and attached rubric).
- MLA-formatted final draft and peer edited draft of screened and researched interpretation of “Kubla Khan” (see Day Four #6 and attached rubric).
“Sweet Dreams” recorded by The Eurythmics (Greatest Hits; Arista/BMG Records (UK) Ltd., 1991); lyrics and music by Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart. BMG Songs Inc.
“Sweet Dreams” recorded by Marilyn Manson (Smells Like Children, Interscope Records, 1995); lyrics and music by Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart. BMG Songs, Inc.
“Sweet Dreams” recorded by La Bouche (Sweet Dreams, RCA Records, 1996); lyrics and music by GA. Saray, M. Sonmez, M. Thornton, and R. Haynes, BMG Songs Inc.
“In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” recorded by Iron Butterfly (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida[reissue], Rhino Records, 1995); lyrics and music by Doug Engle. Cotillion Music Inc., Iron Butterfly Music, Ten-East Music.
“Just My Imagination” recorded by The Temptations (Anthology/10 Anniversary Special, Motown, 1973); lyrics and music by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong. Stone Agate Music.
“See Me, Feel Me” recorded by The Who (Thirty Years of Maximum R & B, MCA, 1994); lyrics and music by Pete Townshend and Dennis Blandfo. ABKCO Music Inc., Songs of Windswept Pacific, Suolubaf Music, Tower Tunes Inc.
“Xanadu” recorded by Rush (A Farewell to Kings, Mercury Records, 1977); lyrics and music by Neil Peart, Gary Lee Weinrib, Alex Zivojinovich.
“Welcome to the Pleasure Dome” recorded by Frankie Goes to Hollywood (Welcome to the Pleasure Dome, Island Records/Atlantic Recording Corp., 1984); lyrics and music by Brian Nash, Mark O’Toole, Holly Johnson, and Peter Gill. SPZ Music Inc.
- Students may select any song we haven’t talked about and run it through any of the screens, offering an oral/visual presentation for the class.
- Students may analyze a poem not in our textbook, using an interpretive screen in an MLA-formatted and researched paper.
- Since Coleridge conceded that ‘CKubla Khan” is indeed fragmented, students may select a screen to finish the poem.